Board Thread:Future TES Titles/@comment-37616926-20181127000041/@comment-1255618-20190509030748

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I guess this is how I manage to get people to respond: say unequivically something controvesial. I rarely get responses to my polite and thoughtful posts. Ha, ha.

My point was more along the lines that to be a Divine specifically, rather than any sort of god, one has to have a planet to claim, which is what sets them apart from just being "Aedra", even powerful Aedra like Trinimac, Jephre, Auriel who ascended, etc.. As for Nirn being Lorkhan's planet, according to The Lunar Lorkhan, Lorkhan already had his own planet, which was the one the moons were made from (including, if the Khajiit are to be believed, the mysterious third/dark moon). Arkay was also said to be a mortal once, just like Talos, and yet Arkay has his own planet that isn't Nirn. Nirn seems to me to be neutral ground; if anyone can lay claim to the planet Nirn, it's Nirni, the spirit of Nirn, who the Khajiit claim is a separate Et'Ada. As far as I'm concerned, at least in the technical sense, Talos isn't a Divine, even if he is a god (maybe even a more powerful god than the Divines).

There's also the matter of jungle still existing in Cyrodiil in the late third era (a.k.a. Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind). I'm open to the idea of Talos being a god, but even the Arcturian Heresy can't explain away why the jungle was still there even after the Warp in the West. It sounds very much like clearing Cyrodiil's jungles was just attributed to Talos retroactively because nobody really knew why it happened, i.e. it's pro-Talos propaganda. I'd like to believe Talos is who he says he is, but it could very well be that someone or something else is posing as him and that he never achieved apotheosis.