Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-171.7.151.13-20160227055354/@comment-101.190.138.61-20160314203210

Aka is the oversoul, he is pretty much all the other aspects combined. I like the window analogy myself. Think of Aka as a window, that window gets shattered and all the shards that made up that window are: Akatosh, Alduin, Auri-El etc. who are each now their own independant free thinking entities. Though I was always a bit confused about Akatosh and Auri-El, since all the gods are bound to nirn and thus bound to mortal belief, what mortals believe can change then.

Akatosh is esentially a creation of the Alessian doctrines and didn't seem to exist prior, he was created to merge aspects of the human and elven time gods to make a single pantheon appeal to all of nirn, So I think this may have caused some of the shards to merge into creating Akatosh though im not sure.