Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-85.165.222.20-20130412232319/@comment-13446185-20140416024102

151.224.59.239 wrote:

If you look into Miraak's backstory it goes somethin like this:

Miraak was the TOP Dragon Priest (as in top of the statue) and was rewarded by being Dragonborn. He had a mask at this point. He then rebelled, LOST/DISCARDED his old mask, met hermaeus mora... we all know how this goes. He gets a new mask from Mora and tries to kill the Last Dragonborn in 4E 201 and then dies.

What I'm saying is: what if this is miraak's old mask, sealed away in fear that miraak would be too powerful if he regained his mask? Sounds more like fanfiction than a backstory. Nothing ever implies that Miraak led the Dragon Cult, in fact he was pobably one of the lowest ranking cultist seeing as he was stationed in Solstheim (which was ruled by Vahlok). The only thing that made Miraak stand out from the other priests was his Dragonblood.