Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7629073-20130402085627/@comment-213.143.72.174-20131118121520

Two words: "Eternal Champion".

If all possible outcomes of Arena have actually happened (though in different dimensions or variants of reality, or what have you), there is nothing to say that the same person is not in fact being reincarnated as the hero of each game. It would also explain why certain motifs will be repeated each time the character is "born" - a.k.a. starting off as a prisoner, possibly being the champion of all the Daedric princes (except for Dagon in Oblivion, naturally), and finally emerging victorious from a world-changing battle. We could argue that the hero of the games is in fact one immortal aspect sent into Mundus whenever divine intervention is necessary, thereby incarnating the aforementioned aspect into physical form (which explains why the character can be of any race or sex), so as to accomplish the task seemingly as a mortal, thereby creating a mythic figure in the process.

This theory however provides further possibilities; for instance, what if all the Dragonborn were the same aspect, incarnated at different times? If so, were all player characters in all the games also Dragonborn, but only the hero in Skyrim was the one who actually managed to fully take advantage of that gift (as there were no dragons in the former games and the Greybeards therefore had no reason to instruct them).