Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-85.165.222.20-20130412232319/@comment-166.147.104.156-20130628194031

196.41.49.245 wrote: I see it like this, Konahrik was the most powerful and wisest of the dragon priests. Unlike the other dragon priests who put all their efforts into reviving themselves after death and becoming immortal, he transferred what remained of his spirit/soul into the mask so he could live on through it. He did this so that when a hero came one day (in this case dragonborn) who proved himself to be more powerful than all the eight dragon priests, (by placing their masks in the stands as a sign of their defeat in battle) the mask would be presented to that hero as he/she proved he was the rightful ruler of the dragonpriests. This is why when the spectral dragonpriest is summoned when wearing the Konahrik you can see it has no mask. The dragonpriest thats summoned is actually the soul of Konahrik coming to the aid of the rightful owner of the mask. This idea seems the most logical of what's on this page, because if Konahrik really was that wise, he wouldve known above the other priests who wanted to come back when Alduin that Alduin was destined to fall, and he knew that whoever defeated him would also hunt down what remained of his cult, and so he wanted to be carried with whoever was powerful enough to do so. He comes out of the mask to help as a sign of respect for what it took to get to where you are (holding his sealed away mask).