User blog comment:Zelron/Soul Stealers in Solstheim (A modest review of The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn)/@comment-3025184-20121226015328/@comment-5020188-20121228222902

The dragonborn CAN, however, choose to defy HM in several comments he can make.

It is far more likely that HM is, as he says, driving the fate of The Last Dragonborn for his own ends. Since Miraak was rebelling and was clearly going to succceed if the Last Dragonborn didnt win. HM saw his chance when the battle was almost over and finished him off, deniying us the chance to see Miraaks face.