Kohlar the Unkilled
Time for some ale
Should we assume that when one completes a faction questline, that history will show that it was the Dragonborn that performed the deed? For instance, if post Skyrim canon remembers that the Dark Brotherhood assassinated Emperor Titus Mede II in 4E 201, must it have been our protagonist that did the deed? After all, it is a quest one does for the DB, but why would it have to be the Dragonborn that does it? Can this quest not be completed without evoking Dragonborn powers?
Must it be the Dragonborn that averts the Winterhold crisis? That becomes Harbinger of the Companions? That resurrects the Thieves Guild? Or, might any of these events have occurred anyway, with or without the help of the Dragonborn?
The only questline that absolutely cannot be fulfilled by anyone other than the Dragonborn, is the main quest. This includes obviously Season Unending, whereby our Dragonborn negotiates an uneasy peace between the Empire and the Stormcloaks. Only the Dragonborn can do this. I propose that canon will reflect exactly this, and will go a step further by uniting these opposing forces against the Thalmor, defeating them. This is the Dragonborn's other purpose, the initial calling being to stop the World Eater. Season Unending, as a quest, is completely redundant otherwise.
Unification of the Empire and subsequent defeat of the Thalmor might entitle our hero to the Imperial throne- in the absence of an Emperor- say, if the Emperor was assassinated by the Dark Brotherhood. Now we've come full circle. Just because you're the one who does it in the game, does that mean that someone else might not have still assassinated the Emperor at a later time. The contract will be out, regardless.
Must it be the Dragonborn that averts the Winterhold crisis? That becomes Harbinger of the Companions? That resurrects the Thieves Guild? Or, might any of these events have occurred anyway, with or without the help of the Dragonborn?
The only questline that absolutely cannot be fulfilled by anyone other than the Dragonborn, is the main quest. This includes obviously Season Unending, whereby our Dragonborn negotiates an uneasy peace between the Empire and the Stormcloaks. Only the Dragonborn can do this. I propose that canon will reflect exactly this, and will go a step further by uniting these opposing forces against the Thalmor, defeating them. This is the Dragonborn's other purpose, the initial calling being to stop the World Eater. Season Unending, as a quest, is completely redundant otherwise.
Unification of the Empire and subsequent defeat of the Thalmor might entitle our hero to the Imperial throne- in the absence of an Emperor- say, if the Emperor was assassinated by the Dark Brotherhood. Now we've come full circle. Just because you're the one who does it in the game, does that mean that someone else might not have still assassinated the Emperor at a later time. The contract will be out, regardless.