User blog comment:Draevan13/Thoughts on TES IV: Oblivion./@comment-5046408-20130307130614/@comment-26474238-20130307172738


 * If you want to get technical, Mazekial, you can just avoid your supposed fate and never partake in the main quest in any of TES games, and create your own backstory to explain it away. That's the great thing about any RPG/sandbox game that allows the player to do whatever they wish.


 * Emperor Septim is one of the DragonBorn, allowing him to receive visions from the Divines themselves. This makes him a prophet, meaning that if the Divines specifically sent him a vision of the prisoner who would be the one for him to pass off the Amulet of the Kings to since he was also told that he'd die that same day, then the whole process would be part of a larger prophecy.