User blog comment:Draevan13/Thoughts on TES IV: Oblivion./@comment-5046408-20130307130614/@comment-5046408-20130307162730

That, and one can easily re-interpret the occurrence as the prisoner just being very very "lucky" and the Emperor just being very old and "seeing what he wants to see", plus being scarred by the death of his sons and all hell breaking loose before his eyes. That's one of the things I like about it (in addition to what Draevan basically summarized): it can be obscure enough that it actually makes sense to avoid the main quest or the "noble" path and go off to become the complete opposite end of the spectrum or even (if someone wanted to) take an anti-Divines perspective instead of believing the implications that Uriel had a legitimate divine vision.

In Morrowind and Skyrim, however, being the Nerevarine or Dragonborn asserts to you a faith in the divinity of the Nerevar or Akatosh, respectively. So yeah, that's something.