Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13446185-20130727042242/@comment-13446185-20130728004159

212.242.237.36 wrote: I think that Dragonborns are given their powers at birth (when they are born). Miraak walked Tamriel at the time of the Dragon Wars, so it is possible that Akatosh choose a random (more or less) individual to become the Dragonborn, who would fufil the Akaviri prophecy, and slay Alduin. However, Miraak choose differently (The last Dragonborn can also choose not to kill Alduin), and sided with the Dragons/Hermaeus Mora.

If being Dragonborn is in your blood (as suggested multiple times in the game), I don't think that Akatosh can just take it away. Especially not when Miraak was hiding in Apocrypha, which should be waaay out of the Divines' reach. Why would Akatosh chose Miraak though and not one of the nords who actualy fought Alduin? Miraak is unstable at the least, it's pretty much obvious that he would use his power as dragonborn for only his own ambitions.

For this reason I believe that Hermaeus Mora may have been the inventor of the Dragonborn. I mean he is one of if not the most powerful daedric lord.