Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24583995-20140421025634

I'vebeen recently interested in the ancient Atmorans, and stumbled upon a bit of trivia about their religion. The worshiped nine Totem Animals, that it is thought represent their visualization of the divines. These are the Hawk, Snake, Moth, Owl, Whale, Bear, Fox, Wolf, and lastly Dragon (dragons being the most well known, as Ysgramor's 500 brought Dragon Worship to Tamriel and we all know about the Dragon Priests). I, in boredom one day, decided to match each of the Totem Animals with their Divines. After some time I got...

Hawk=Kynerath/Kyne

Snake=Arkay

Moth=Dibella

Owl=Julianos

Whale=Mara

Bear=Stendarr

Fox=Zenithar

Dragon=Akatosh (obviously)

I realized though, that since Talos didn't exist as a human, much less a God at the time of Ysgramor and the ancient Atmorans, that we were one Divine short (the Wolf Totem had no matching God). So I started looking into more purely Nord (since they seem to be the closest to the original Atmorans in their way of life) Gods, and came across Shor.

Shor was the Nord version of the God Lorkhan. In every mythology that he, or his equivilents, appear in, he is portayed as an enemy of Mer and an avocate, if not patron deity of Men, a fact which reminded me strongly of Talos, the missing Divine I needed to fill the gap in the list of Totem Animals for.

So I looked more into Shor/Lorkhan's history. He was the Aedra who most accounts say gave his life to create Mundus. Yet in Sovngarde, Tsun refers to him as his leader, and this might mean that he "died", but in an almost mortal way, literally being trapped in the afterlife for eternity. But the fact that He and Talos had so much in common was still too much of a coincidence for me to overlook, so I came up with me own idea of Talos' origins.

(This is where my ideas start to seem slightly far fetched, but this is just my speculations, so bear with me) Imagine that after basically an eternity in the afterlife, Shor/Lorkhan who had been unable to interact with/help the Mankind that he loved so much, finally amassed enough strength to escape his "prison" of death and be born into the world as a human, not nearly as powerful as an Aedra as he'd be incredibly weak from this, but he managed to be born into Mundus in the form of Hjalti Early-Beard, the Atmoran, Breton, or Nord depending on your sources, who would become Talos Stormcrown/Tiber Septim. As Talos, he manages to ascend to godhood as the God of Mankind once again.

I don't know if this seems feasible to the rest of you, but I think it's at least worthy of discussion. Any thoughts? 