Excellent!

I have another thing to posit: on the totem pole of character importance, where should this end up? Sidequest "helping people out but not significantly altering the course of history" or directing the shape of the future (where it would be entirely possible for one of the characters to be a Shezzarine or the Nerevarine/Dragonborn). Either way, being Elder Scrolls, everything is probably determined by which cave someone lost things in.