Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24.119.198.177-20130930002431/@comment-24.54.234.52-20161015164742

King in the North wrote: 80.111.4.146 wrote: There is a lot of evidence to suggest that the Sheogorath in Skyrim is the Hero of Kvatch, all of which has been stated above, with no real evidence to suggest otherwise. If Sheogorath is meant to be the Hero of Kvatch then I think that it's the default character models that Bethesda use are the actual appearences of each games protaganist meaning that they are all male. It's entirely possible that when the Hero of Kvatch became the Mad God that hebecame imortal and then, driven mad by the deaths of all of his friends and knowing that he would continue to live forever he decided to live in the Shivering Isles and become Sheogorath using the magic that he learned from the Arcane university to alter his appearence so he would look more like his predocessor. Now the only 'friend' he has left from his original life is Haskill because he is the only other person he knew that was imortal

I think I may have looked into this a bit too much He has to be mad to take up the mantle of the Madgod, the Princes are just personifications of their spheres.

Which given the events of the base game would make a lot of sense. If the "canon" is that HoK did all the questlines, then that shows that they are mad, for these questlines often time conflict with one another. Only a truly mad person can dedicate themselves to saving Tamriel and then proceed to serve Sithis with ease.