Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-39143771-20190415065121

Theory. Did Skyrim actually not experience the Oblivion crisis because the dragons were fighting the Daedra and protecting Skyrim in secret? (Possibly the greybeards helped as well).

This might not line up with the canon since the dragonborn is supposedly a 'goodie'. The implication of that might be that the dragonborn is actually a conjuration of the Daedric Lady Mephala (Lord/Lady of lies, Sex, Murder, secrets and plots), as a way to take revenge on the Dragons for defeating them at Skyrim and payback for making Oblivion almost unknown there to the point where there is little to no record of Skyrim ever experiencing it. The dragonborn also interacts with Mephala. What she has to gain is unclear according to this theory, but maybe she was trying to win favour with Mehrunes Dagon.

So, someone refute me- the Daedra failed harder with Skyrim than they did with Black Marsh because the dragons defended it, and the dragonborn is actually a daedric lie.  