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Orc named sue wrote:

2. I'm pretty sure a mortal can't just become a daedric prince.

What about the Hero of Kvatch? What's his exception?

Mantling. "Walk like them until they must walk like you". When you mantle a deity, your identity and their identity become one, as mythopoeic forces deem you too similar to be judged as separate entities. Thus the Sheogorath in Skyrim is not the Champion of Cyrodiil, although he may have originated as him: when the Champion took up the mantle of Madgod, he became the Madgod. It's very much Sheogorath, just with a bit of the Champion's personality mixed into it.