according to TES lore....
trying to understand the Deadra of madness is FOOLISH
he is crazy, who knows maybe he wanted to mess with your head maybe he is the hero form OB maybe he is half man half god half pig ...etc
the point is he is crazy stop trying to figure him/her/it out
In my case, my character who played Shivering never played the MQ, and vice versa. I think it's canon that Sheogorath is the player of Shivering Isles. If, in your case, that's the CoC, that's canon for you. In my case, it's not.
Bethesda has never strapped the player down and force-fed them one version of facts.
Exactly.
I think it would be unbelievable and therefore silly to assume the hero of Morrowind did
everything the game has to offer, likewise for Oblivion and Skyrim. In my opinion, I consider the main quest alone to be attributed to the hero of the games.
Someone else may think that such great feats of accomplishment makes for an epic tale.
The great part about TES lore is that it can hold both these views.
I make a distinction between
lore and
canon.
Lore is everything, including out-game developer texts and (some) fan thesis.
Canon is very little, it is the events but not the people if you will. No doubt that someone stole an elder scroll and saved the thieves guild from a curse, but who it is is not recorded.