Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11345660-20131106065543/@comment-24081142-20131108202737

TES lore/mythology is obviously separate from any real-world belief system, but there are certain similarities and parallels (sp?). Lorkhan reminds me, to some extent, of a fusion of two figures from Greek myth - Eris (AKA Discord), who made a golden apple as a gift for the most powerful god, then invited all the other gods to debate who should have it, and Prometheus, who stole fire from Hephaistos' forge and gave it to mankind. There are obviously major differences in the specific details, but somehow the comparison always suggests itself to me.

As to what he actually is, my feeling is that he is neither Aedra nor Daedra, but occupies his own unique category within the general class of 'things we could call Gods'. Something about him suggests to me that he is the wild card who embodies the chaotic elements of existence (chaotic in the mathematical sense, not the Mehrunes Dagon sense), that he perhaps exists to prevent things from becoming either static or entirely predictable.