Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-7153552-20130401230427

In response to The Rim of the Sky's comment first, being Emperor in ESO has been announced a title. However, it is a temporary PvP title to whomever is leading their faction in the never ending conflict in the PvP zone, and has control of the Tower.

On to this post, the Septim bloodline was diluted from the original Dragonborn within the Septims. It is because of Tiber Septims actions that made him the Emperor, which is ultimately a heriditary title. It is the dragon blood within (no matter how trace), coupled with the Amulet of Kings, that kept the Gate of Oblivion from swinging full open. Later, Martin Septim had a kind of apotheosis using the amulet to become something bigger and better than the need for the Amulet, itself. He became the barrior between the realms - however thin and veiled it still may be. So just because you're a dragonborn, and in this case the only that we know of once you rid the world of Miraak, this does not mean you are entitled to being emporer.

In any case, with the Septim line being murdered out, the Dark Brotherhood causing havok among the current line, and the civil war that the Legion go thrown in the middle of I don't think there will be an empire for too much longer. We might see all out war, or a rising back into seperate factions as will be shown in ESO. Who knows, truly, though?