Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-4651167-20140408235954

Please take note before you read/reply/write/whatever that this is written prior to the ending of the main campaign. I'm pretty far through it but I havent finished the main questline yet. So if it could be kept mostly spoiler free for now, that would be great.

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I've been playing through the game and a thought struck me. "Is the player really The Soulless one?". And here's my thinking.

1. At the start in the pre-game cinematic, you are taken to one of Mannimarco's lairs and killed for your soul. However, anyone who has played any TES game will know that when they capture a persons or an animals soul, the body itself doesnt dissappear. Sure it's probably grazed through magic or cut up into pieces with a sword, but the body itself is still there.

Further proof of this is the body of the prisoner who is taken before you. The body is dragged off to make way for you.

2. As such, when you enter Molag Bal's realm of Oblivion, your essentially your soul which has been sent there. When you leave his realm at the end of the tutorial, The Prophet summons a shard of Aetherius to help realign yourself with Nirn.

Then, you return to Tamriel... But it's technically your soul returning to Tamriel. There's no mention of your soul realigning with your body at all.

3. Every so often while playing the game, a few npc's will comment that you don't quite seem to be 100% there... as if something is missing. The Argonians of Shadowfens mention this a few times. 'Friendly' Dremora also comment that they don't quite have the ability to have the same power over you as other mortals...

4. Whenever you die, your body returns to it's ghostly state for a short while and then reconstitutes itself into a physical form... Nobody else in Tamriel has ever had this power as far as we know, and certainly not in the same method of ressurecting.

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As such, is the player really a Soulless one? Obviously this is the term that Zenimax and Bethesda have bequethed us and you won't hear any argument from me on that, but it seems more like the player is really a 'Bodiless' person.

Thoughts anyone? 