Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20141215130822/@comment-28542485-20160525192849

It's a little difficult to take the word of tech support. People responsible for in game mechanics (bugs/how this thing works/customer service) more then the history of what's behind the things they put in the games (lore). Even low ranking staff can be guilty of making assumptions/a slip of the tongue when higher ups might have more information. Of which there is a lot of in this game. If he, say, was told from someone who specifically establishes Sheogorath's lore then it might have more credit. He could have also mentioned why beyond mantling. A single email to a single fan doesn't have too much going for it. This would need to be brought up with the devs to know for sure. Not just for lore reasons but because if this is a case of confirming something without checking in with the devs/lore knowers/writers first (a case of seeing what one wants to see and taking it as fact when it may or may not be. They could easily say "X said so") then that risks causing a giant mess of things and even more confusion. Hopefully that's not the case. But it's tech support. That's pretty much the equivalent of being a common soldier in the army. How much do they really know unless addressed by a sergeant? And tech support have been known to be unreliable on a whole. I'm tempted to check in myself and ask tech support why the hero of Kavatch is Shegorath and how. There's got to be reasons and a process. Mantling alone doesn't provide enough info on its own because it can be interpreted as a title. So a confirmation of "Mantling with Shegorath has turned the hero of Kavatch into him" (or whatever did) would go a long way. Somehow I get the feeling they'll dodge the questions. And a simple thread somewhere explaining it all would clear everything up. So if there is indeed an answer why haven't they provided it to the fans on a whole and not just hidden away in a single email to a single fan? Regardless of the truth either way it's such a simple thing to do.