Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-7629073-20130402085627/@comment-11444045-20131224022056

I also put "or follow the events" in this case Shivering isles has nothing to do with him being the hero or oblivion gates or what not. Where as dragonborn dlc is specific about you fighting the first dragon born to stop him from wrecking havok on the world of nirn with his power. He is a huge part of the skyrim and the dlc requires you to complete the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller quest before you start the actual dragonborn dlc main quest. Thus you can say it's heavily influenced based of the main campaign of skyrim. There's also unique dialog between you and Miraak with how many dragons you defeated or if you defeated Alduin at all. So yea i see it more of a canon story than shivering isles. I see shivering isles in the same way as Dawnguard, while SI did add a HUGE location with different areas like dragon born, it really isn't influenced by the main story events. Dawnguard is only partially influenced since you need the dragon elder scroll which you can totally get by doing the Hermaeus Mora daedric quest, you don't even need to start skyrim's MQ so it's not really influenced all to much.

But this is my POV really, since whatever happens to our characters is really up to us as there's no definite proof by lore(from bethesda) that Hero of Kvatch is sheogorath as that would undermine the whole RP aspect of it. It's left open for us to intepret the fate of our players.