Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-86.24.50.100-20130623082136/@comment-7153552-20130625152714

To a certain extent you can roleplay however you want, but the ultimate point of the prophecies (in all the games) is that you're an unnamed and unknown hero. You were born to 'uncertain parents' in Morrowing, in Oblivion you don't even know how you got in jail or why you're there, in Skyrim you're some random traveller in the wrong place at the wrong time. You can create an RP backstory, but the hard lore states nobody knows you or your family.

To the point about the Shivering Isles bit, you were also blessed by the Divine in Knights of the Nine. That might negate or create exceptions to the Pact, plus you're not there to do horrible things to the realm at large as Sheogorath. He's crazy, but not inherently violent. . . per se.