Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-8435644-20140101011351/@comment-24358064-20140101012804

There's no need for a "theory". Bethesda has to remove the heroes of previous games from the world, simple as that. That way they can keep it vague what race or gender they were or what they did. The same happened to the Hero of Kvatch, the Eternal Champion or whatever the Daggerfall guy was called. The reason is entirely out-of-game; it would be foolish to look for ingame reasons.

Spottedstar02 wrote: If I was the Nerevarine, a person who was a normal adventurer, I wouldn't want people to worship the ground I walked on. It would get annoying. Well, speak for yourself. Okay, you did, but you based a general argument on it... Being an adventurer, especially in TES, is being a running boy/girl for higher powers. Why not aspire to *become* a higher power? If I were the Nerevarine, I would try to wrestle control of Morrowind from Helseth, try to secede from the Empire, etc. Actually, basically all of Dagoth Ur's stuff minus the blight :p

But of course, it's exactly because of such considerations that Bethesda just *has* to remove the heroes of previous games.