Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-98.176.143.75-20150317121154/@comment-24.185.108.132-20150402183440

TacitPoseidon wrote: Harold Burned-Mane wrote: There is a difference. Sheogorath mentions things that only someone present would know, like the whole debacle with the Dark Brotherhood. Daedric Princes aren't omnipresent, he would't be able to know about the Fox and the severed head unless he was the Hero of Kvatch. Unless he had somehow acquired the memories of th HoK. Sheogorath himself tells the Hero that they could not actually become a Daedric Prince. And also I have a hard time believing that the Princes would not interact among them, and that Harmaeus Mora isn't omnipresent, otherwise it would be almost impossible for him to be the Daedric Prince of Knowledge, meaning that he could have told Sheogorath all of that for him to actually incorporate all of that into his personality. Daedric Princes in general do not know everything, nor does Hermaeus Mora. Hell, Hermaeus Mora literally bargains with the Last Dragonborn to provide him the means to defeat Miraak because he doesn't know something, and he wants it. The Demon of Knowledge is the Demon of Knowledge not because he has all Knowledge, but because he seeks all Knowledge.

That said, you're misunderstanding how mantling works. The Champion of Cyrodiil did not just become a Daedric Prince, he was thrust into the mythical role of one, adopted the symbols of its station, sat in its Throne, was proclaimed it by its subjects and by its former self: he was so similar to Sheogorath in that moment that the subconscious Godhead itself forgot that the Champion of Cyrodiil and Sheogorath were ever two separate things, and rectified this by making them one. The Champion of Cyrodiil is Sheogorath and Sheogorath is the Champion of Cyrodiil: the Aurbis itself no longer distinguishes between these two things as separate entities, and only we, the players, remember that they ever were. But why is Sheogorath not more heroic, you say? Because the Madgod is an infinitely larger role than the Champion of Cyrodiil. You pour a milliliter of orange juice into two gallons of water, it's going to taste like water.