Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.51.98.60-20170822201412/@comment-1255618-20190403221836

Until someone says that he is no longer canon, then Ebonarm is still canon.

Speaking in terms of pure speculation, I think that Ebonarm is less a god than a role passed down from one person to the next: probably a hero who prevented wars among Hammerfell, High Rock, Skyrim, and possibly Orsinium who upheld the highest standard of justice and who battled the Daedric Princes. This is why Ebonarm is described seemingly as a mixture of Redguard, Nordic, and possibly Breton influences. So according to this theory, different heroes have been Ebonarm throught history, maybe even beginning on Yokuda, and the previous Ebonarm passes the mantle down to a new hero. The book 'the Ebon Arm' describes one such hero (or a legendary composite of them), and the Ebony Warrior in Skyrim is yet another Ebonarm who is retiring. And there will be yet more Ebonarms to come, because Ebonarm is an ideal transcending different cultures.