Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3076045-20140401223913/@comment-16047389-20140403141357

What no one else seems to have brought up is that the player is not the only "Soulless One", and no I'm not talking about other players. In the intro, we are introduced to dozens, maybe hundreds of other Soul Shriven, who like the player are Soulless. So the term Soulless One isn't unique or descriptive of the player themselves. It's basically the equivalent of one of the Hold Guards walking up to the Dragonborn and saying "Staying out of trouble, Argonian?" There is only one Vestige, and that's you.

The only reason I think the term "Soulless One" was used by Zenimax is because during the beta, "the Vestige" didn't exist. Alot of things changed between the beta and launch. They probably just didn't think of the name until later and decided to add it in. Because the Prophet certainly didn't call you Vestige during the beta, but he does now.