I've been playing Skyrim for quite a while now, and I've still not finished the main quest line, Well.. at least not yet. But anyways... I have gotten far enough to understand a few fundamentals about the dragon returning from the dead angle and everything. They are supposedly all being raised and resurrected by Alduine right?

Well... I've been thinking about it, and I'm rather curious. The dragons being resurrected and brought back to life, they did have to come from somewhere in the first place right? So... this made me start asking questions, Are dragons supposed to be a natural part of the world of Tamriel? If they are, then how are they born or created? and more so, if they are part of the world, then obviously they are not all like Alduine. there is at least that I know about that isn't the leader of the greybeards.

So, all of this is leading to one thing, there has to be natural dragons which have nothing to do with Alduine right? So... where are they? What have they been doing all this time, since they were supposedly hunted down to endangered status? As Farengar in White Run said, many were killed in the dragon war but some survived into ancient times. So where are these survivors?

even bigger question, makes me only wonder even more. Where are the female dragons? Are there even female ones? Something spawned Alduine right? So where is she?

They aren't born. They were all created by Akatosh.

Alduin and his kin are allegedly 'offspring' of Akatosh himself. Thus, they are asixual. Also, they are theoretically immortal (though the dragonborn can 'permanently' kill them.) Hence, there is no impetus or requirement for them to be able to breed.
When they are 'dead' or dormant, I would imagine their souls reside somewhere in Aetherius. They're not daedric, so there's no reason to expect them to be on some plane in Oblivion.
There have been dragons in at least one other ES game in the past, so some did survive across the millennia after Alduin got punk'd and thrown into the Time Rift. Paarthunax is an obvious example, but there are others, to the best of my knowledge. But other than Paarthunax, they weren't in Skyrim.
I think one was camped out in Dragonstar, on the Hammerfell side of the border with Skyrim. There is at least one (and likely more than that) on the continent of Akavir to the east of Morrowind.

Notice that even Alduin did not suddenly emerge in Skyrim at the beginning of the game. Both he and the DB (your character) came from outside the province. With your character, the road the wagon he's in suggests that he was picked up crossing the border from Cyrodiil. Clearly Alduin also comes into Skyrim from Cyrodiil - you can tell both by his flight path towards Helgen and the several roars/bellows he emits on his way there.

If I remember correctly, the dragons are lesser Aedra created by Father Akatosh. They aren't necessarily a natural part of the world, being creatures that exist outside of it.





Dragons are genderless, created by Father Akatosh to be immortal and eternal. As such, they have no need to reproduce, so genders are worthless to them.

They are angels of Akatosh and are created at his will.

That still counts as being born but not in the way you are used to it being used.

Ok. They were "born", but they weren't born.

They're more like fragments: pieces of him that can be shed off when he wants.

The legendary wizzard Diviath Fyr once summoned Dremora and asked them how old the dragons are. Even they could only reply that eragons have simply 'always been there'. Altough most of us refer to Skyrims dragons as male, they have no gender. This way, there are also no dragon eggs or stuff like that.

The part where I tend to disagree with most people is the fact that only the dragonborn can permanently kill dragons (dragons could do that to each other as well) and I don't think that only Alduin is capable of reviving dragons. It's a 'normal' dragon shout consisting of three words, other dragons could do that as well. Not that they'd want to do that since it probably transforms a fair portion of your power into the resurrected dragon.

I'm sure that's why Alduin took so many trips to Sovngarde.