Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.253.68.177-20131021030335/@comment-68.116.91.34-20131220045700

Somebody Stole My Sweetroll wrote: I've a theory, with no evidence to back it up other than a storyteller's instinct.

Suppose the Eternal Champion is literally eternal, being an instrument of the Gods and/or Daedra who is deployed when needed and then 'returned to storage'. He/she is reborn as required, fulfils the necessary purpose and then either dies young or simply disappears completely, before being reincarnated the next time the world is threatened.

Off the top of my head, I'm not totally sure of the exact length of time between each game in the series, but allowing for some Divine or Daedric miracle it is conceivable that, in fact, the Eternal Champio, Hero of Daggerfall, Nerevarine, Hero of Kvatch and Last Dragonborn are all incarnations of the same soul.

I don't claim that this is necessarily correct, but it seems to make a certain kind of sense. It would also explain how long-time Elder Scrolls players seem to keep getting imprisoned at such convenient moments...

Also, Arena and Daggerfall saved characters in the same format, and this was an intentional and documented feature to allow you to import your Arena character into Daggerfall. So possibly the first two instalments, at least, are intended to center on the same hero? I haven't tried this, but I would assume that this would, or at least should,  suppress or  modify Daggerfall's player biography.

I always thought that Knight in the "Knights of the Order" DLC in Oblivion was the Eternal Champion.