There is already a great chance that these are in. But just to get a feel for community opinions.

Dragon cults, they drink Dragon Blood, go wild for Dragon eggs, dress in Dragon Scales, protect nests, and will stop at nothing to get their hands on the "Dragon Born", but for what reason?


They could work like Daedric Shrines, little camps that need offerings of Dragon related items. Maybe each shrine could give you dragon armour and fire weapons.



If Yay, how would you like to see them used? Random encounter? Faction? Shrines? Story-related/quest only?

,,, 'Fraid Nay it my answer, it just doesn't seem to fit with the overall game. Aedra and Daedra are worshiped as gods because they are veritable gods. It took an avatar of one of the Aedra to drive an invading Daedra back to his own land. The dragons are mortal on the other hand, and can be beaten by mortals. Now in a real world, some people would start worshiping them like gods, but they would get no benefits, no blessings, not even new spells, the best they could do is the dragon shouts. So unless your referring to someone like the people at the top of the steps in the temple by the wall (their name escapes me at the moment), then I don't think it will happen.

Nay, not unless you can betray Tamriel, otherwise it wouldn't make sense

We have many deities who are mortal...Phynaster for one.

Dragons are probably powerful enough to seem immortal and almighty to most people of Tamriel. Also, both Vivec and Almalexia seemed pretty mortal to me when I beat them up with a good ol' earthly sword.

Actually, the main adversary in this game IS a god in Nord culture, basically the equivalent of Akatosh. And the dragons are often regarded as something slightly higher than mortal, possibly something from another plane of existence, much like the Aedra and Daedra are. After all, if they were all driven to extinction, and nothing more than simple beasts, why are they coming back now?

Phynaster is an Aldmeri Arkay.


Ah, so they're that sort of cult? Obviously, they want to have your baby, make it their god, then eat you.

If it's just a group of secluded people who believe the dragons are back to become the kings of the planet, sure that'd be cool.

The Spanish coverage mentions "Dragon priests", so I supposse that there is already something similar.

I don't think it would make sense for people to worship the dragons, unless it's to be understood in a more general animic cult of animals. Which I never heard about in the past Elder Scrolls games, by the way.

What could make sense, in my opinion, is some cult of the dragon-god Alduin. Indeed, from what I read so far, Alduin is part of the Nord pantheon. It would be interesting, for example, to see the tension that great destruction caused by dragon in the name of Alduin would raise in such cults, perhaps leading to great internal conflicts within Alduin worshipping communities.

One thing you don't mention in your poll description, and which is in my opinion a matter of the greatest interest, is the nature of dragon cults in the sense of the following questions : what do the dragon believe in? What do they find worth fighting and struggling for? I mean, Alduin has been said to be a dragon-god. But don't dragon believe in other entities? Do they all interpret Alduin's will in the same way? Are there conflicts between dragon clans and religions?

Dragons share a common language, both spoken and written, and no languages exist without the tales, stories and legends they are the vehicles for. This means there must exist dragonic cultures, hopefully with a great degree of refinement. Since in many cultrures, there does exist underlying religious facts, I think the question of dragon cults is worth being addressed and would provide, if it's addressed, more depth to the game.

The Sixth House was awesome. Really cool. It felt like Bethesda had thought a lot about this.

The Mythic Dawn was lame, meh, and felt like something made up on an afternoon.

If there would be a dragon cult, it better be nothing like or near the Mythic Dawn.