Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-17045460-20130609055613/@comment-12764929-20131127183258

99.17.208.237 wrote: Okay, this is staying with the leaving the fan in Oblivian; I'm not too sure of the lore, so this may sound crazy:

The fan, tortured by daedra and dremora, was held and tormented for years in Oblivion, where time is not constant; 200 years may be three, so he may have been there longer than expected. He was eventually driven mad, and shegorath noticed his madness. Shegorath paid him a visit, offering to save him if he added more madness to the world as an assassain, maybe planting a few false memories/ objects on his person to make it seem convincing. He wiped the fan's memory of being trapped, brought him to where ever the night mother was, and told him he was to find the listener.

That would be a good theory, but it states how he lost his sanity. He murdered a jester, and became obsessed with him and took on this new lifestyle, becoming insane. Apart from that, good theory!