Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-1600847-20140819183355

I decided to create a list of about conflicting and/or varying accounts on Tiber’s life. If I forget any, feel free to point them out:

1)       Where was Tiber born? Alcaire or Atmora?

a)       If he was born in Atmora, how? It was abandoned millennia before his birth and overrun by glaciers. That was why Ysgramor lead the Atmorans to Tamriel nearly 3,000 years before Tiber’s birth.

2)       Did Tiber have Cuhlecain assassinated to become Emperor, or was the Nightblade acting on the behalf of one of Culhecain’s enemies?

a)       If Tiber had him assassinated, why slit his own throat? Why deprive himself of a power as great as the Voice? Could he not hide his involvement another way that wouldn’t diminish himself so?

3)       <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Did Tiber Septim become a god by:

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2level1lfo4"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">a)       <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Mantling Lorkhan and merging with Zurin Arctus and Wulfharth, or

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2level1lfo4"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">b)       <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Did the Eight Divines themselves raise him to godhood? After all, they begin referring to themselves as “Nine” divines. Would they do that if he tricked his way to godhood?

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Note that I’m only listing here what I consider to be the really important ones.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Personally, I believe that he was born in Alcaire, since Atmora had been abandoned for millennia. Though I do believe he’s a Nord, being born in High Rock doesn’t automatically make you a Breton. One of the characters in Infernal City was a Breton, but she was born and raised in Black Marsh, doesn’t make her an Argonian.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">I also believe that he had nothing to do with Cuhlecain’s death (depriving himself of the power of the Voice makes no sense to me), but I do believe he’d have done it but one of Cuhlecain’s enemies beat him to the punch.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">And finally, I do honestly believe that he was raised to godhood by the Divines. I highly doubt that the Eight would have accepted him as one of them had he “tricked” his way in by Mantling Lorkhan and started calling themselves the “Nine”.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%; font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif";mso-ansi-language:EN-CA">Note that this is all speculation, since there’s no conclusive evidence and Tiber’s life is left shrouded in mystery by Bethesda, probably on purpose. <ac_metadata title="Conflicting accounts on Tiber Septim:"> </ac_metadata>