Talos

"Come to me, Talos, for without you, my Lord and Emperor springs from rootless dust, and the Empire is scattered before the winds of war and ignorance."

- Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition

Talos, ninth of the Nine Divines, and the "One" in The Eight and the One is the oversoul of Tiber Septim, Ysmir Wulfharth, and Zurin Arctus who were combined through a process called the Enantiomorph during the Warp in the West. He is the patron god of war and governance who, through a process known as CHIM, ascended to godhood from manhood. No man has achieved this other than Arkay, though he ascended with the help of Mara. Many think of Talos as the greatest hero-god of Mankind, worshiped most prominently by the Nordic race. In the Fourth Era, worship of Talos had been banned as a term of the White-Gold Concordat between the Empire and the High Elven Aldmeri Dominion. Because of this, a civil war broke out in Skyrim between the Stormcloaks and the Imperial Legion, known as the Stormcloak Rebellion).