Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.253.68.177-20131021030335/@comment-9212235-20141125160335

68.8.64.38 wrote: Maybe... the thing that created the elder scrolls, was divided into different souls, whom is all the heros, at the same time, so the souls go to a random race, and then they just happen to end up in a place, maybe the soul knows more than the mind, in fact, maybe the soul... knows what will happen, but does not warn the mind, as this would ruin the adventure of the creator of the gods and everything. Even himself! I don't know.. this could turn out to be true, also for some reason I though they were all during some time, and I didn't notice that I was wrong the whole time until someone said my last character went to another place... then its like wait what, then I knew for sure... the dragonborn was not the hero of kvatch.

You're actually not that far off. The most likely truth is that the scrolls are created by the universe, the Aurbis. The Aurbis is the interplay of Anu and Padomay. The same interplay created the et'ada.

All of the protagonists are called Prisoners. A Prisoner is a special kind of person who has the most powerful thing in the Aurbis, free will and choice. With this the Prisoner is able to accomplish great things, or not. It's the Prisoner's choice. They also have another thing in common. They are all Shezarrine. This means they're all bits of Lorkhan's soul.