Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-25196161-20140718180949/@comment-121511-20150205031750

Talos was not "granted" Divinity by the Aedra, he took it. He mantled Lorkhan and achieved CHIM, thus, as Vivec calls it, "reaching Heaven by violence". And for what it's worth, Michael Kirkbride did say that Talos was the most powerful being in the universe.