Pelinal the Sezarrine could have had an empty hole where Akatosh's heart once lay.
It seems more like Lorkhan's heart should have lay there.
As for the Amulet of Kings, well, Akatosh took a shard of his soul (his life force) and made the Amulet with it. The same (or nearly same) way as he created the dragon souls.
is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God?
Oh, this one made me think very hard, lol, but I find, that this doesn't defeat my theory, only solidifies it)) I don't know what Kirkbride was thinking as he wrote this, but the way I see it is that Lorkhan is not exactly the Space God, he is rather the god that makes the other gods create space. I.e., as the other gods are order, static, Lorkhan is chaos, the power that makes the order to rearrange itself, and in the process the space - the world - is created. It correlates perfectly with the Creation Myth, isn't it?
This means that the difference in the elven and human versions of the Creation Myth doesn't matter (I'm talking about whether Lorkhan tricked or convinced the gods to create Mundus), for these versions only express different feelings of people about the Creation. The fact, though, is that the very presence of Lorkhan, his very being, is what forced the gods to create the world.
Then, after the world is created, it's not the end of the story, because, again, Lorkhan's presence is the power of change that makes the Creation (the world) constantly rearrange itself, which means chaos and destruction in the world. That's why Auri-El & Co take his heart (his soul, his life force) from him, and leave him to reincarnate again and again as a mortal - now the change he causes is not so drastic.
That's actually why Akatosh can create other entities like dragons and Dragonborns with his power - because he has his heart in place, while Lorkhan can only reincarnate as one Shezzarine at a time.
This soul became the central gem in the Aok. Many other Dragonborn added their souls over time until Martin breaks the stone and releases a massive dragon. Fast forward 200 years and a Dragonbron is going around absorbing the souls of a multitude of dragons into his own. See, I think the idea of dragons being "children" of Akatosh is just a metaphor.
It seems that the reason why a Dragonborn absorbs dragon souls is that the shards of life force that Akatosh placed in them tend to merge by their nature. That's why the souls of other Dragonborns (if they all were really Dragonborns is another discussion) were absorbed in the Amulet.
Akatosh regaining his shattered soul
The thing is that it's his life force part of the soul that is shattered, not the personality part. Every one of those parts has a personality of its own. So when a Dragonborn (or even a dragon, but it might differ for dragons) dies, the personality part goes wherever it goes (the Dreamsleeve, Sovngarde, etc.) and the life force returns to it's original owner, unless it merges with another piece of the same life force. That makes me wonder thogh, if a dragon kills another dragon, does he absorb the soul too??
If gods can be shaped by worship and belief, why not mythic figures too?
Because mythic figures are mortals. At the time we speak about Wulfhart wasn't really a god. He was an incarnation of a god, but he was a mortal man in a mortal body. I suspect, that even if every single Nord believed that he grew wings and a tail, it still wouldn't happen)))
I don't understand the question. Who says TlD was human?
No one. But all the Shezzarines were human. So there is a pattern, so if the LDB is a Shezzarine, he would be a human most probably.
Does that mean I have somehow failed?
No. Only that you (and anyone else, as it seems) don't want to talk about it for some reason. So I wonder why, is it from the lack of information, or people just find the idea absurd, or why else.
Pelinal the Sezarrine could have had an empty hole where Akatosh's heart once lay.
It seems more like Lorkhan's heart should have lay there.
As for the Amulet of Kings, well, Akatosh took a shard of his soul (his life force) and made the Amulet with it. The same (or nearly same) way as he created the dragon souls.
is it any wonder that the Time God would hate the same-twin on the other end of the aurbrilical cord, the Space God?
Oh, this one made me think very hard, lol, but I find, that this doesn't defeat my theory, only solidifies it)) I don't know what Kirkbride was thinking as he wrote this, but the way I see it is that Lorkhan is not exactly the Space God, he is rather the god that makes the other gods create space. I.e., as the other gods are order, static, Lorkhan is chaos, the power that makes the order to rearrange itself, and in the process the space - the world - is created. It correlates perfectly with the Creation Myth, isn't it?
This means that the difference in the elven and human versions of the Creation Myth doesn't matter (I'm talking about whether Lorkhan tricked or convinced the gods to create Mundus), for these versions only express different feelings of people about the Creation. The fact, though, is that the very presence of Lorkhan, his very being, is what forced the gods to create the world.
Then, after the world is created, it's not the end of the story, because, again, Lorkhan's presence is the power of change that makes the Creation (the world) constantly rearrange itself, which means chaos and destruction in the world. That's why Auri-El & Co take his heart (his soul, his life force) from him, and leave him to reincarnate again and again as a mortal - now the change he causes is not so drastic.
That's actually why Akatosh can create other entities like dragons and Dragonborns with his power - because he has his heart in place, while Lorkhan can only reincarnate as one Shezzarine at a time.
This soul became the central gem in the Aok. Many other Dragonborn added their souls over time until Martin breaks the stone and releases a massive dragon. Fast forward 200 years and a Dragonbron is going around absorbing the souls of a multitude of dragons into his own. See, I think the idea of dragons being "children" of Akatosh is just a metaphor.
It seems that the reason why a Dragonborn absorbs dragon souls is that the shards of life force that Akatosh placed in them tend to merge by their nature. That's why the souls of other Dragonborns (if they all were really Dragonborns is another discussion) were absorbed in the Amulet.
Akatosh regaining his shattered soul
The thing is that it's his life force part of the soul that is shattered, not the personality part. Every one of those parts has a personality of its own. So when a Dragonborn (or even a dragon, but it might differ for dragons) dies, the personality part goes wherever it goes (the Dreamsleeve, Sovngarde, etc.) and the life force returns to it's original owner, unless it merges with another piece of the same life force. That makes me wonder thogh, if a dragon kills another dragon, does he absorb the soul too??
If gods can be shaped by worship and belief, why not mythic figures too?
Because mythic figures are mortals. At the time we speak about Wulfhart wasn't really a god. He was an incarnation of a god, but he was a mortal man in a mortal body. I suspect, that even if every single Nord believed that he grew wings and a tail, it still wouldn't happen)))
I don't understand the question. Who says TlD was human?
No one. But all the Shezzarines were human. So there is a pattern, so if the LDB is a Shezzarine, he would be a human most probably.
Does that mean I have somehow failed?
No. Only that you (and anyone else, as it seems) don't want to talk about it for some reason. So I wonder why, is it from the lack of information, or people just find the idea absurd, or why else.
