Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.77.73.35-20140401211532/@comment-25531876-20141114122746

Galraen wrote: I removed my original foolish response to a foolish response, no wense in starting a flame war.

I'd also like to apologise for taking, or at lest helping to take, this thread way off topic.

As I see it we can gauge the final power of some of the protagonists, at least those who effectively die at the end of the respective games.

The Agent from Daggerfall was an exceptionally powerful character, but IMHO, nowhere near powerful enough to challenge a Daedric Prince head on,even on Nirn.

The Champion of Cyrodil may have been able to take on the newly reformed Jyffalag, but even that is open to debate as Jyggalag wanted to lose as I see it. Repeating the feat of Pelinal and, thanks to Talos, being able to go one step further is remarkable, but not in itself enough to make me consider him super powerful. As I stated it is possible for him to take on Mehrunes Dagon, but only by exploiting the overpowerful nature of Alchemy in Olbivion, not by his own raw power. Also as far as I'm concerned he effectively succumbed in one way or another as a result of interfering in the plans of the Daedric Princes.

There is no way of knowing the true power that the Nerevarine may have achieved, even Bethesda couldn't (so far) come up with an outcome for her, in true Holywood Western style she just rode off into the sunset. I believe she had the potential to have rivalled even a Daedric Prince, but would Azura really have allowed that to happen? We'll never know unless a lated Elder Scroll reveals her fate.

As for the Dragonborn, in a sense his story is still being written. Challenge a Daedric Prince though? Not on the Prince's realm of Oblivion, but on Nirn, probably.

One of the problems of assessing the lore of Tamriel is that it can only be surmised through reading the in game books I believe (I could be very wrong on this), and that's extremely problematic. Everyone who has ever written a book has had their own agenda, and how do we discern fact from fiction in those books? Imagine how confused a visitor from a Galaxy far far away would be if they tried to piece together our Lore just by perusing the books in the Bodlean Library! Would they come to the conclusion that Dragons really did once exist here, and must all have been slain by a Dragonborn called George? :D What about the Eternal Champion?