Need help with roleplaying: Outlander Dunmer who does the Main Quest, can it make any sense to join the Temple?
So we can deduce that the Nerevarine is an orphan who at some point got arrested in the Imperial City, and has probably never been to Vvardenfell on account of not knowing anyone or anything about it before their journey there.
Upon our release to carry out missions in service to the occupying Imperial government to destabilize the local ethnic religion, When, if at any time, is it believable that my character could join the Temple and begin truly believing in its tenets? It feels nearly mutually exclusive to do this alongside the main quest which brings up the Nerevarine prophecies as early as the Mages Guild informant.
Could an Outlander Dunmer from Cyrodiil come to believe in his people's ancestral and Tribunal worship traditions enough to rank up within the clergy, while also having dealings with the Blades and the Ashlanders? What order could these quests be done without dodging Caius for the first many weeks? I want to do the vanilla start main quest, the temple, and eventually mournhold. I understand the character will eventually lose faith in the benevolence of the tribunal and be persecuted, but I want to figure out how both can fit together on a timeline of a play through.