Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11388043-20130711070950/@comment-5307230-20130722192230

Your character isn't the last Dragonborn, he is the -current- Dragonborn.

If being a Dragonborn isn't inherited, instead being gifted, then why was your character chosen to be one?

It feels like it's all on a whim. Akatosh probably, out of sheer boredom, gets up one day and says, "Let's see what lucky mortal gets to be Dragonborn this century."

Being Dragonborn doesn't mean you are going to do good things (my main is kind of an asshole and kills and murders people, yet he saved the world, then returned to his dickish ways.)  The Greybeards make mention of this saying they can't tell you what to do, only guide your path on the mastery of the Voice. So it's all random.