Prophecy says Alduin will be the one to end the world. Does this mean Alduin is not really dead or was the prophecy wrong?

At the very end Paarthurnax comments on this, and suggests Akatosh might bring him back to fulfill his destiny.

No. We fulfilled the prophecy.

Alduin will be back though. If someone competent steps up, he'll be defeated and the kalpa will resume. If not, we're dead.

He's gone, for the moment. I think it was Arngeir(sp?) that suggested his soul was taken by Akatosh for use at a later, more proper date.

Perhaps someone else will walk like Alduin, and in doing so become him to end the world.

Perhaps Alduin's actions, or his destruction, have now inevitably doomed the world.

Alduin came back to end the world on his terms, but it seems Akatosh may use him at the true end of the world.

Alduin has gone.. For now. Maybe one day he'll return. I don't know why akatosh wants to end the world, but..

Many dragons are now in desbelief of Alduin's power. If he returs, many dragons won't tolerate.

And Parthurnaax said the power has blow up Aludin's mind. He tought he deserved to own the world. Domination has made alduin nut.

I don't know how I feel about Alduin turning from 'Schizophrenic God' to 'Evil Dragon-Jesus'

My question is:Where did he go?

This topic actually had me thinking a bit, and I've come up with a hypothesis: Alduin was not and was Alduin.

Bear with me here.

Suppose Akatosh-as-destroyer is a genuine aspect of Akatosh. Take Alduin, who claimed godhood; what do we know of the paths to divinity? Alduin was doing the Akatosh dance, walking the path of the Destroyer, Akatosh AE Alduin. The Nords, knowing in a very real way the depredations of Alduin come to refer to that-which-is-called-Akatosh as Alduin.

So, what does the destruction of the dragon Alduin mean in the long run? Is it possible that, by his dancing as the Destroyer, that this aspect was separated from Akatosh in some fashion, especially since Alduin was banished outside of Akatosh's domain, which is to say time? In Alduin's destruction, Akatosh's aspect as the World Eater is returned, and his jaws gape over the whole of Nirn once more.

Simple, yet vaguely plausible explanation: the Mundus is an experiment, and Alduin was created as the key to unlock the emergency exit.

Alduin is part of a cycle that cannot be broken. He will always return to fulfill his duty until the job is done, and there won't always be a hero around to stop him. Eventaully the world won't be able to put up a fight against Alduin anymore and it will be consumed, then the next world will be born.

Alduin devours the Nords first, by tradition. So he goes to Sovngarde and does his business. Does this mean he also goes to every other form of afterlife, such as Azura's Star, Camoran's Paradise, or even cause a "Greymarch" of sorts to the Daedric Realms?

Alduin will eat everything in his way, unless it dodges his mouth. What happened in Skyrim and when he was originally fought, was that he was caught during his weakest moments.

Also, Paradise was destroyed when Mankar was killed, Azura's Star isn't an afterlife, it's a soul stone, and yeah, he'd end up going after the daedric princes, unless they dodged him (like how Mehrunes did before he was Mehrunes Dagon)

Raptor Jesus. That's who Alduin really is.

He'll be back, one day. That's what I believe. I'd be glad if he didn't though.

Well he's gone for now. The Dragonborn Prophecy only seemed to extend this kalpa, not make it last forever.

Dovakhiin dind't devoured his Soul.he is the same being as Akatosh.It would be like eating Akatosh itself.Alduin is probaly recovering somewhere until he returns.

GODDAMNIT!!! This arguement? Really?

Alduin is not Akatosh! It is stated several times that he is the son of Akatosh.

He is a demigod, not a fully fledged god

Glad someone posted that before me. It gets annoying when people refuse to accept something that was decided loooong ago.

Alduin ent Akatosh en I no Im rite.

Regardless, the fact is that Alduin's Soul was not absorbed. Ergo Alduin is not dead.

Not really. Just because you didn't absorb his soul dosen't mean he's not dead. Just that he may not be dead permanently.

Dragons only die when their soul is absorbed. As in die without possibility of resurrection, because you did not absorb his soul their is a posibility of resurrection and that's why I say he's not dead. It kinda depends on how you view "death" here.