Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130714031200/@comment-108.67.232.14-20130724134445

Th3Antioch wrote: The fact is there were nine divines (The eight plus Lorhkan), but then he got cast out. Then the divines picked a guy (Tiber Septim/ Talos) who had done what was impossible before: Conquering an Entire continent. He did enough research to find out how to get an ancient dwarven machine to work again. They made him a god, and as much as I regret to say it, this is proven when in Oblivion you can pray at a shrine of Talos, and it confers a blessing to the player. However, this does not mean it was right for him to become a god. I still think there were numerous others who deserve godhood over him: Nevarar and his subsequent reincarnation; the Hero of Kvatch (Who actually got it when he became the almighty Sheogorath) and of course the Last Dragonborn.

Additionally, I don't see why the people of tamriel can't have free religion. If it were up to me, I'd have a pantheon that consisted of: Sheogorath, Meridia, Azura, Nocturnal, Akatosh, Hermaeous Mora, and Sithis. I think those gods/godbeings have the best values: Madness, Dawn, Twilight, Darkness/Shadows, Time, Knowledge, and the void. The God's didn't "choose" him, he simply mantled through his time on Numidium. No other character mantled a God in this way, and as such no other character became one. It isn't about "deserving it," even though Tiber Septim did more in life that TLD and The Champion of Cyrodiil.