Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-60.228.134.8-20150807033517/@comment-9212235-20150808063213

The player is an important figure called the Prisoner. This has a ton of meaning behind it. The short version is that the Prisoner is a being who is always has the ability to follow the writings of an Elder Scroll, but he has the ability to do whatever the hell he wants. The Prisoner is the ultimate Padomaic and has the ability to choose his own path, so much so that he may even choose to be Anuic.

IceFireWarden (an excillent and well known Lore Scholar) has a great write up about this. You can find it here. I'll leave you with this.

"Each event is preceded by Prophecy. But without the hero, there is no Event."