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: The Dovahkiin personfies 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. Well, 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 partiuclar, this may sound chillingly 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 now contains the essence of all the Dragons absorbed by the Dovahkiin except for Alduin's- will join the heroic souls in Sovngarde at Lorkan's side.

What that signifies exactly is something of a divine mystery in and of itself, but it seems quite clear that Lorkhan and Akatosh have entered into a Covenant--one that will at the very least reshape the destiny of Nirn; and very possibly that of Mundus. As mentioned, Akatosh is both the eldest and wisest among the Et'Ada. He is the key player of the divine game: the divinity which layed down its initial, basic rules through the creation of Time. Consequently, Akatosh is the one who gets the final say in all matters of great import. His judgment is final and inescapable.

The ending of Skyrim's main storyline made it abundantly clear who and what Akatosh ultimately is siding with: Lorkhan, Kyne and their "children", the races of Men. For the Mer, especially, this will probably become an existential crisis that is utterly without parallel: their own chief deity seems to be completely reconsidering his take on the races of Men -whom the Mer so despise- and has begun to rehabilitate the vey divinity responsible for their creation: Lorkhan.