Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25196161-20140718180949/@comment-25100715-20140722133719

"Not only is this not mythology, this isn't even true across every irl religion"

yes this is a mythology, its not real, i cannot summon a Daedra Lord in life, so unless the ES universe made up their own definition of "avatar" and it has yet to be published then it has to follow the only known definition of it, Warcraft does for example, when the Demon's God (Sargeras) was reincarnated as an Avatar He had all the powers on their planet he could muster in his weakened state. now if you mean someone like Pelinal was an incarnationof Shezarr (like jesus was) then yeah he would only have a potion of his powers as a mortal.

"Mehrunes Dagon didn't have all of his power, and neither did Akatosh.."

i think they both had their powers in oblivion tho, that was Merhunes Dagon's form thus why Tamriel started getting ripped apart at the end of the game, isnt that waht happens when they merge? and i thought the soliders even said 'Merhunes Dagon is here in the City!"

"Finally, Akatosh is not literally Alduin's father"

http://www.ssdress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/akatosh-skyrimskyrim-nexus---mods-and-community-96xglllt.jpg

i think Paarth calls him Akatosh's first born as well in the game. how is that not a father if he refers to himself as his son and Paarth calls him Akatosh's firstborn? and if hes not his father would he just me a simple dragon that could devourse souls to get strength then you could jump to the possibility that "him devouring the world" simply means he wants to be Tamriel's dicator