Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-108.253.68.177-20131021030335/@comment-98.214.115.175-20150207062710

69.172.152.109 wrote:

My TES heroes have always been women, for instance, and "canonical" male versions of these heroes would make "my" versions suddenly no longer count, which would rob something from my experience of the games... something that kind of annoyed me about the strong implication that Sheogorath in Skyrim is HoK Just chiming in with a reply to an old comment to say that the Daedra are more-or-less genderless and choose to appear in whatever gender they wish. Usually they have a preference for one gender, but that doesn't mean they're restricted from appearing as another. So maybe a female HoK decided to appear in the image of the previous Sheogorath in Skyrim simply because she wanted to.

As for the wild theories flying back and forth about the Nerevarine and the HoK and Sheogorath after their respective games, I'd personally just take the Occam's Razor approach and go with the simplest explanation: The Nerevarine went to Akavir and is unable/unwilling to return and the HoK became Sheogorath.