Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24399099-20141005172540/@comment-9212235-20141016183426

As far as the ability to kill Vivec, in every games ever to exist in game mechanics != lore. It would be annoying to attempt to kill Vivec in game and have him be completely invincible. It was annoying (to me at least) when they did that with Sheogorath.

Your opinion is that certain people should die while you play, and that is perfectly acceptable. However, not everyone is you and thinks the same way. Some people might not want to kill these people you find so utterly evil. Every player is different and as such there exist within lore a way to explain it. Within TES there exists infinite possibilities and infinite alternate timelines. Within Bethesda's core time line certain events are expected to have happened and this usually includes every quest but the Prisoner is only assumed to have completed the main quest line and the xpacs. There are some events that require a choice to be made and beth has approached these differently with different games. Normally the best way they've done it is leave it open ended to the point where either option could have taken place. In the case of Daggerfall all endings took place at the same time resulting in the Warp of the West.

The lore of TES is purposefully told by the Unreliable Narrator. This means that pretty much the only facts are those that you experience. Even then these "facts" aren't the same for each person. There are certain events that took place but the precise happenings of these events are under question. The betrayal of Nerevar by the Tribunal is one such event. We don't really know what happened but we do know that they eventually used the Heart of Lorkhan. An event happened. The details are sketchy.

There is no doubt that Vivec is one of the most powerful beings in the universe. It is theoretically possible to kill him, we just don't know how. He has the ability to alter reality and change history. I find it very unlikely the Nerevarine could defeat him face to face in a fight. I'm sure Muatra would be firmly placed in an unpleasant orifice, as is what is normally done with the "spear."