Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-139.228.161.207-20150131164559/@comment-24144336-20190316125924

Webspidrman wrote: @A FANDOM user 119.56.57.161

I think the Last Dragonborn is a Shezzarine and also, obviously, a Dragonborn and thus representative of Akatosh. I don't think he mantled Lorkhan at all; he is just the stand-in for (like Arshudar has been saying) the side of Akatosh that's sympathetic to men and to Lorkhan. Yes, I'd say that is a key point in this: The Dovahkiin personifies a (majorly important) aspect of Akatosh his own soul--which the god purposefully placed inside the vessel of a mortal individual. Someone mentioned Genesis a few posts back. Through the Last Dragonborn, Akatosh is intentionally allowing an important part of his own divinity to manifest in the world through the body of a mortal man. For Christians, in particular, that might sound very familiar.

As a mortal, the Dovahkiin will surely die at some point; whether of old age, illness or Nordic warfare. The key question therefore is: what happens to that part of Akatosh his own soul when its mortal vessel ceases to exist? Skyrim's main questline cogently implies that the Dragonborn's soul -which is part of the soul of Akatosh and harbors the essence of all the Dragons absorbed by the Dovahkiin save for Alduin's- shall join with the heroic souls in Sovngarde at Lorkhan's side.

What this signifies is something of a divine mystery in and of itself, but it seems strikingly clear Akatosh and Lorkhan are entering into a Covenant--one which at the least will reshape the destiny of Nirn; and very possibly that of Mundus entirely. As mentioned, Akatosh is the eldest and wisest of the Aedra. He's a key player of this divine game: the divinity which layed down its foundational rules through his creation of Time. Consequently, Akatosh has the final say in matters of great import. His judgment is simply inescapable for all other Et'Ada.

The ending of Skyrim's main story makes it abundantly apparent who Akatosh is ultimately aligning with: Lorkhan, Kyne, and the "children" of that divine "couple"--the races of Men. For the Mer, especially, this will probably become a spiritual & existential crisis utterly without parallel: their chief deity is completely reconsidering his take on the nature and the value of Men -whom the Mer so despise- and is not only rehabilitating but in fact accrediting the very divinity responsible for their existence: Lorkhan.