Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13446185-20130727042242/@comment-13446185-20130728012719

74.136.82.38 wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: 212.242.237.36 wrote: I think that Dragonborns are given their powers at birth (when they are born). Miraak walked Tamriel at the time of the Dragon Wars, so it is possible that Akatosh choose a random (more or less) individual to become the Dragonborn, who would fufil the Akaviri prophecy, and slay Alduin. However, Miraak choose differently (The last Dragonborn can also choose not to kill Alduin), and sided with the Dragons/Hermaeus Mora.

If being Dragonborn is in your blood (as suggested multiple times in the game), I don't think that Akatosh can just take it away. Especially not when Miraak was hiding in Apocrypha, which should be waaay out of the Divines' reach. Why would Akatosh chose Miraak though and not one of the nords who actualy fought Alduin? Miraak is unstable at the least, it's pretty much obvious that he would use his power as dragonborn for only his own ambitions.

For this reason I believe that Hermaeus Mora may have been the inventor of the Dragonborn. I mean he is one of if not the most powerful daedric lord. sorry but mehrunes dagon was the most powerful of daedric beings he started the oblivion crisis but hermaeus mora was a powerful one just not the most I don't know. I think Mehrunes is just more ambitious. Hermaeus Mora seems content with his own realm and probably doesn't want to control mundus. He is obviously the most mysterious of the Daedric Lords, I think he hides his power and prefers to watch from the side lines.