Talos is not a God, he was but a mere mortal that must have done heroic acts to be named as a divine, yet i haven't heard of any of his heroic deeds. the question is, if you were alive during Talos times, do you think that the character that you have created would be able to defeat Talos in a hand to hand match?

Not a chance. Even as Talos the man God's bowed to him (Vivec, who was a renouned swordsmen himself).

Hand 2 hand? Sure. As of course, I am a Khajiit.

^^ this.

Vivec was a very weak God. Even the Nerevarine could defeat him.

The Nerevarine was not a God. It's quite possible that Tiber Septim was simply decent at stuff.

I suppose it's possible that he ascended because of his people's unwavering belief in him due to help from the Numidium.

At the time of Tiber Septim, Vivic was still a very powerful God and had access to the heart. Its foolish to attempt and discredit him based on his ancient, frail and power starved shell in Morrowind.

i suspect i would be able to beat him as well, although i think it would take a long time, kind of like nintendo's punch-out, when fighting mike tyson

He unified Tamriel under a single rule, and because of this Tamriel was able to repel Akavir when it invaded Skyrim. He managed to do what no other man, elf, beast, daedric prince, or god had ever done before, and was to conquer the entire continant.

He was able to do this with the help of the Numidium a tool that can help achieve asention to godhood (see the king of Worms in Daggerfall).

When the Nerevarine 'killed' (its not canon, and future lore from 5th era says Vivec is still alive) Vivec had lost most of his power and was in a very weak state. At the highest of his power he could turn back Daedric Princes.

He was powerful when Tiber faced him down, essentially a god at that point in time.




Talos is not a mere mortal that is pretending ot be a god, he really is a god.

There is a ton of facts a lore buff can give that proves he is a god, but here is a real simple one. You needed an Aedric (god) artifact to finish the main quest in Oblivion, and you used his armor. This makes his godhood so essential that if the lore ever changed one of the games would fail to make any sense at all. So he is a god and you Thalmor naysayers need to get over it.

i'd still be able to beat him up, i would just enchant some gloves to have +60 hand to hand damage.

This exactly. A cookie for this guy. Hail Talos.

Talos is a pretender, who crushes kittens under the heels of Giant Stompy Robots.

The world existed before him - Banishing his worship is not the end of the world, as some may try to lead you to believe.

I'd like to see the expression on the Aldmeri Dominion's faces when they see what the 8 divines look like and it turns out their avatars are a human form xD They could still worship akatosh since his avatar is a dragon but that would only be 1 god.

Thalmor blasphemy! stop spreading your lies over multiple threads!!!

i still want to know what he did that was so heroic, i bet that my character did a lot more heroic deeds, maybe it was one of those sacrifice yourself crap, like in oblivion, and other stories that i have heard.

To them that’s not really the important part, all gods can be human for all they care. The problem is that according to lore, Talos is doing all he can to maintain the status quo in the world and Thalmor want to unmake the world thus they need to get rid of him or atleast drastically weaken him.

Unitied the continent, promoted great values, oh yeah and he was part of the enetimorph as well as an avatar of Shor. Heroic deeds aren't really needed and all of our heros, past and present have likely done more 'heroic' deeds. He however sits in place at the center of the wheel and fortifies the world against destruction. He is the glue that holds the mortal plain together.

Don't know about H2H but a drinking contest and/or who can be longest underwater is a guaranteed win for me.

you can't beat a god in a drinking contest, remember what happened in the deadric quest.

In TES a really powerful mortal can defeat or banish a god. He/She just can’t kill a one, at least not a Daedric one.

Yes, he butchered dissenters, squelched freedom, silenced religion, and mantled the form of the greatest Traitor. Quite heroic indeed.

On the note of treachery, he also betrayed his http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Zurin_Arctushttp://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Zurin_Arctus

i bet in the future tes games the thalmor are going to want to kill the gods not just banish them by going inside their realm.

You are saying that he mantled Lokhan? So aren’t you agreeing that he is a god…. ?

Talos is the name for a entity who is born in a mortal body and does heroic acts.