Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26872804-20150815160415/@comment-9212235-20151029003018

Ok, I feel like I need to take a moment and help explain Talos. First and formost, Talos is a highly complicated character and any explenation of him will ultimately fail due to leaving something out. This is just his nature. Talos is so many things.

1. Talos is The Enantiomorph: This term was first used to describe him. It is seen in the 36 Lessons as well. The 36 Lessons go on to explain the Enantiomorph far more thoroughly, but to sum up, it requires a King, a Rebel, and an Observer (aka mage). I'll stay away from the crazy metaphysical stuff on this explenation so in short, Rebel overthrows king, king becomes rebel, and the observer... well... observers. He also ends up marred in some way. Talos is three people who are three people. Let's move onto that.

2. The Talos Enantiomorph: As has been said, Talos is 3 individuals that make up one. They are Hjalti Early-beard, Ysmir Wulfharth, and Zurin Arctus. This enantiomorph soul stacked (mostly likely what the 3rd Walking Way is, i.e. Numidium) into Talos, but there was more to it before that. When Ysmir met Hjalti, he offered him his thu'um, knowledge of battle, and general bad-vehkery. This fusion of souls became what is known as Talos Stormcrown. War war war, fight fight fight, and eventually Talos becomes king. Talos had his own personal BFF Battlemage by the name of Zurin Arctus. Zurin is awesome and magical and silver tongued. Hjalti needed him to continue on his way up the food chain. Zurin and Hjalti combined, whether soul stacked (more likely, or at least kind of) or just pretended to be each other, and this being is what we know as Tiber Septim. Later on some more war, getting Numidium, betrayal, moving onto Daggerfall plot, and we have the combined soul of Zurin and Ysmir who is known as the Underking. Shenanigans ensue, the plot of Daggerfall unfolds, Numidium is activated, he No Stomps time into the fetal position and Numidium decides (or it just happens due to his super powers) that these three should be the same thing and they get soul stacked into Talos.

To sum up. Wulfharth + Hjalti = Talos Stormcrown. Hjalti + Zurin = Tiber Septim. Zurin + Wulfharth = The Underking. Hjalti +  Wulfarth + Zurin = TALOS or Tal(OS) as it is sometimes called in the deep crazy groups.

This is, without a doubt, an over simplification, but it still holds true.

P.S. This isn't OOG MK lore, this is Arcturian Heresy stuff and has been pretty much confirmed to be the most true when looking at all of the sources combined.