Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-50.10.177.94-20130209065558/@comment-3444868-20130407205416

Equillibrium wrote: personally i think the very notion you could access sovngard directly (other than for story purposes) was a flaw in some of the lore because each race has their own version of sovngard, and they cant all exist at once can they? so by going to sovngard i think the writers were saying the only true heaven is the nord heaven. but i could be wrong here, maybe it has to do with what you believe in, or maybe sovngard was a small part of aetherius or a benevolent shard of oblivion, much like the malevolent soul cairn. its inclusion of tsun also suggests that lorkhan is in reality shor, basically the same thing only the nord version, so either its a bit of a plot hole or you could say that these deities appear in whichever form they are believed to exist in. Just like there are different realms of Oblivion there are different realms of Aetherius. Also because we are dealing with a world that has magic many things are possible. I think we all sometimes compare Nirn with our world and forget that it isn't our world and not even close to all the rule apply. Like I said on a different post, what a person in Nirn believes is real. The fact that all the shrines actually give you special temporary powers is proof that the deities exist. They probably realize that sometimes they have different names and I'm sure they don't mind. Think of them as Greco-Romano gods who were powered by belief and when they were no longer worshiped thy lost their power. This explains why the Thalmor don't want Talos worshiped.