Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24267938-20130323172448/@comment-6707115-20130404033005

Psijic Thief wrote:

So just because you're a dragonborn, and in this case the only that we know of once you rid the world of Miraak, this does not mean you are entitled to being emporer.

Tiber Septim didn't have a claim on the Imperial Throne either, he just took it be force (he embraced his inner Dragon). Paarthurnax mentions to the Dragonborn about their innate "will to power", which he probably also told to Talos when he visited the Greybeards. Arngeir mentions there being more to your destiny than simply stopping Alduin. The Dragonborn could still become Emperor of Tamriel and still keep the spirit in the future games, the next games lore could simply mention that the Dragonborn changed their name upon taking the throne much in the same way as Hjalti Early-Beard changed his to Tiber Septim; the name could just be unisex. There is also much innuendos that the Dragonborn might also be an incarnation of Lorkhan/Shor/Talos, so that would also give a MAJOR prestige claim to being Emperor.