Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7629073-20130402085627/@comment-25587412-20160927110724

There's something I once read and found in ESO that explains what all the heroes really are:

As the book sais, seems that Nirn is a kind of living being, which has consciousness, and when senses it's about to face a great danger (Mehrunes Dagon in Arena and Oblivion, Dagoth-Ur in Morrowind, Warp in the West, Alduin in Skyrim and Molag Bal in ESO) it takes part of its own "soul", or essence, to create "heroes" as a way of self protection.

So, if taking that as a truth, we could state that all the heroes in the TES games are both the same and different people at the same time:

mortals with the soul of Nirn (REMEMBER NIRN IS MADE OF ALL DIVINES' ESSENCES DUE TO LORKHAN'S TREACHORY), so in fact they have a soul formed from the mix of the Divines' essences.

Later, each Divine will decide how much of the soul is formed from it's own essence:

- Eternal Champion: i'd say Dibella, but maybe is other Divine

- Heroe of Daggefall: Julianos

- Nerevarine: Lorkhan (that's why both Nerevar and Nerevarine could interact safely with the Heart without being tempted with power and divinity)

- Heroe of Kvatch: Talos (he is seeking to save the Imperium from being destroyed and ripped out by Dagon, and that's why he can both enter and being recognized by general ghosts in Sancre Tor, and being recognized by Septims)

- Dragonborn: Akatosh (no doubt of this one i believe, as no heir/ress was alive when Martin died, the only way to achieve Dragonborn powers is by Akatosh blessing, so instead of blessing a mortal, Akatosh decides to take part on this by himself. That would explain why we can't absorb Alduin's soul and why our Thu'un was even stronger than Alduin's)

I'll look for the book where i took the info from.