Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2.100.92.38-20130821124429/@comment-13446185-20140131014749

Zephrim wrote: Could be a shezarrine but by the description so could Ulfric Stormcloack. Nothing in Skyrim ever suggests that the Dragonborn is shezarrine, again that is left up to the player and is completly open to interpretation. The ghost is a simple side quest, one that can be ignored and has no bearing on the actual story, therefore it is optional.

I think you are reading way too deep into it. Now if you want to use that angle for your character, great, your Dragnborn is the return of Tiber, wonderful I hope you have fun. But that doesn't mean everyones dragonborn is the reincarnation of Tiber Septim. The entire point of the TES series, (and most every RPG style game Bethesda makes), was the freedom to play how you wish to be the character that you want to be, not the player that was designed for you. Ulfric definitely wouldn't fit the description of Shezarrine, Shezarrines are immensely powerful. For example, the Underking had defeated the Numidium not once but twice; and Pelinal was said to be able to destroy entire pieces of Tamriel in his maddened states.

There is small allusions to the Dovahkiin being a Shezarrine, for example the Greybeards name you Ysmir, the only people ever referred to by this name were Shezarrines; Hjalti, Wulfharth, and Pelinal (actually they were all both Shezarrines and Dragonborns).

So your saying just because the ghost thing is a side-quest it isn't supposed to be taken literally? You have to realize Bethesda puts these things into side-quests for the more observant people pick up on their hints. Do you know what else was a side-quest?... Arniel's Endeavor, and that quest is basically an in-game confirmation of what happened to the Dwemer. Do you think that Bethesda would just have the ghost mistake you for Tiber Septim for no reason at all?

Sure you can say that the game is a "be whoever you want to be" game but there are definitely limitions to that. Bethesda saying that the Dovahkiin is a Shezarrine doesn't harm RPing anyless than saying the Dovahkiin is a Dragonborn and the Nerevarine is Nerevar.