User blog comment:ChalupaBatman87/Next TES:V DLC/@comment-120.144.64.244-20130104053810

I was thinking... What if our Dragonborn himself becomes Emperor/Emperess? He/she is afterall a Dragonborn like Talos, is named Ysmir by the Greybeards like Talos, and would actually be capable of wearing the Amulet of Kings and lighting the Dragon-Fires like Talos, where it still around. To Molag Bal's Dungeon with Martin, we got a real Dragonborn. Fun fact: there haven't been any direct descendants of Talos for centuries, for the large majority of the Empire's lifespan infact. His son or grandson (things get a bit conflicted there) was assassinated and had no heirs. The throne ended up going to Talos' niece, his brother's daughter. Then there was another problem with the succession some time later where there were no heirs related to Talos at all. The Elder Council ended up picking some chap (Cephorus) who was closer related to the original Septim line, but to whom he was exactly related is not known. Uriel VII and Martin are descended from Cephorus by the way.

~TESClaymore