Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130714031200/@comment-13010385-20130722154633

Talos is a Divine, undeniably. it's not that he deserved it, or recieved it for his actions, or anything like that. I don't know what Lord Hadron is implying. The Dragonborn will not ascend because he has not mantled Lorkhan. Tiber Septim used the Mantella(The combined souls of Wolfharth and Zurin Arctus, two Shezzarines with one being another Dragonborn) to power Numidium. During his time with Numidium, it drew power from the Mantella. It was designed to be powered by the Heart of Lorkhan, though. All the time spent controlling Numidium, while controlling it with the Mantella, allowed Tiber Septim to impersonate lorkhan to the point of Mantling him. The Nu-Hatta also says that "The Stormcrown mantled by way of the fourth: the steps of the dead." Once Tiber Septim died, he mantled Lorkhan, becoming him and ascending. In essence, Talos is Lorkhan, and therefore the primary creator of Nirn, an Aedra, and a Divine.