Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-6685058-20130727045056/@comment-8248675-20130907214204

198.174.0.11 wrote: Jdarkdorsett wrote: Also for all you Oblivion fans and those who actually want your dragon shouts to work well you prayed to a shrine of Talos. And guess what? It actually worked!! Wow!!!!!! I wonder why? Maybe gods are not the collective wishes and beliefs of enough people through their psyche!! Furthemore to gain the the gear in the Knights of the Nine, you needed to pray to Talos and it worked. Therefore with all these facts from this post and above Talos is a god. I don't care what high elf loving fanatic whants to argue with that but you can't just say 'Oh the Aldemeri must know what their saying, nevermind that every other race do not think them as highly as they themselves do. Nevermind that they are actually more vunerable to fire and ice in Oblivion that the othe "inferior" races, so that means being weaker to fire and ice is perfection.' The god Talos as we know him may not be what we think he is. All Daedric Princes communicate with people of importance (i.e. the Dragonborn) to claim them as their Champion. Yet we do not hear a peep from Talos throughout the entirety of Skyrim. Pehaps Talos is just a sick joke by another Prince and they obliterated Tiber Septim's soul to maintain plausible deniability. Either way, we can infer one of three things:

A) Talos doesn't see Nim as fit for his attention.

B) Talos is a captive to another Prince.

C) Talos is just a prank played on the Nords by another Prince, most likely Sheogorath.

Believe what you wish, but, logically, nothing on the mortal plane of existence can ascend to godhood, be it Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer, Dwemer, Orsimer, Breton, Nord, Redguard, Khajiit, Imperial, or Argonian. In any case, we must know the truth in case Sheogorath decides to tell the Nords "Gotcha!" Well if we believe what you said, that would mean that every divine are a prank or what's not. It's not just the Talos, it's every other divines, they don't belive that they should deal in mortal affairs directly, that is why none of the divines had been down to Mondus ever since the defeat of Lorkhan. Deadric Princes on the other hand, always interfear with affairs of mortals, they even claim Tamriel and Nirn to be a part of their realms of Oblivion, even though they didn't lift a finger to create Mondus. It was the work of Aedra and now Daedric princes lay claims to their creation. So your point that Talos is just something created by Deadric Princes to confuse men, just because he doesn't interract with player directly is invalid, since that would be the same for another eight. As far as I know, Akatosh is the only one to come back to Tamriel after defeat of Lorkhan and that wasn't even his true form, but an avatar of his; Martin Septim turned fiery dragon. Talos isn't different from any other divines in that sence.