I had this idea, coincidentally, while playing Spyro: year of the dragon.
Basically, there would be this dragon egg that you could find in a randomly chosen spot in skyrim (perhapse a cave that would be picked by radiant story). This egg would obviously be guarded by a dragon that the player would have to kill. After slaying the beast, the player would then be able to approach the egg with whatever intent they wish, weather that be to examine it, or destroy it. However, as they get within a few feet of the egg, it suddenly starts to hatch, and a small baby dragon emerges. ( it would only be small compared to its advlt counterpart; compared to the player, it would probably be about half their size give or take)
Now, from here the player can kill the dragon, seeing it as a threat. They could continue their approach and perhaps give it a piece of food or whatever baby dragons eat, thus befriending it. Or they could simply stay back and observe it until they decide what to do with it.

If you befriend it, then after a few weeks of caring for it, it could aid you in battle in different ways. Perhapse there could be some self given quests that you can go on in order to teach your dragon how to do different things like maybe how to fly so it can aid you better in a fight with another dragon.

Oppinions? comments? suggestions? feedback?

sounds like How to train your dragon.

maybe, but riding dragons in this seems a long shot....

I wouldn't get your hopes up.

*The Player grabs the dragon egg*

*Galbatorix leaps out of the shadows* "I SUFFER WITHOUT MAH STONE!"

i really hope not, its just too cheesy.

There is already going to be a shout to have a dragon fight for you.
And they already said that you will NOT be able to ride on the dragons.

All I can think is that it'd end the same way as in Super Metroid.

That's such a cliche. I don't think there will be any dragon bonding in Skyrim. Besides, there is already going to be a Dragon Shout that summons one to fight for you.

ya kind of sounds like an Eragon reference.. To be blunt that series or any ideas from it should never touch TES.

Agreed.

Agreed - especially the brilliant idea to use ballista's against infantry on an open field *facepalms*

And the magical duels would be HORRIBLE if it was like Eragon.

Player: "I cast fireball using the ancient language!"

Enemy Mage: "Warded!"

Player: "Dangit."

Enemy Mage: "I cast Lightning!"

Player: "Warded!"

Enemy Mage: "I QUIT!"

Seriously though, the Eragon series was really good at first - then went so downhill. And the movie? Turkish Starwars was better.

Do we actually know how dragons are "born"? If they don't have eggs..

This is what will go through Dovahkiin's mind when he/she finds a dragon egg:

I haven't read the books, though I heard they were pretty good though. I did see the movie, however, which was awful.

:rofl:

To OP, sorry if everyone's sounding a bit harsh, but ideas like this aren't going to be taken well. Most of us here are a bit worried (maybe even scared) that with the story so far being a dragon wanting to destroy the world that Skyrim could easily become unoriginal and stereotypical. Though this is most likely not the case ideas like this, which have been done many times before, are not really wanted for in-game. They seem to belong in the more light-hearted games like Spyro.

Some feedback: Though riding and having a pet dragon seems cool, from what I can tell from what we know so far, dragons will be intelligent beings, not beasts. This would rule out those two things. You could still however, have a 'friend' dragon, but with so little lore about them we have no idea whether this can happen But we do know that in many recent games/novels/movies etc it has happened, and would be a bit dull.

Another problem with your idea is balance. There seems to be no incentive kill the dragon. If you let it live, you gain a very powerful ally, but if you kill it, you don't get anything. More depth needs to be added say, if it lives and you befriend it, it later betrays you and fights against you, but remembers you towards the end of the MQ and saves you. That's just a quick dodgy one (hardly better than yours) but you get the idea.

Btw. Welcome to the forums. Stay active. Have fun. Lurk and learn.

I agree with the general sentiment that this sounds unlikely to happen in the game and contrary to the lore we have so far. BUT! There's always mods! I'm sure someone can come up with a great retcon encompassing whatever we learn about dragons in Skyrim and the idea of the player obtaining a dragon buddy. If not, I'm pretty sure someone will add in a dragon buddy/mount mod anyway. (Look up the "Akatosh Mounts" mod for Oblivion. Lore-free dragon mounts.)

Not that I support the idea, but dragons being generic evil big bads is even more of a cliché.

The main problem I have with it is that the dragons were hiding out somewhere for a very long time. Why would they keep an egg somewhere Tamriel's inhabitants could find it? That would seem fairly risky to me.

I also don't think they will do this since Skyrim's dragons are people complete with a written and verbal language and I doubt they'd allow you harm a dragon child. That's shaky ground to even discuss here.

I really don't like the idea.
All this stuff about being friendly with dragons (witch all lead to riding them at some point) is simply too cheesy and should be part of a cartoon and not TES.
Oh wait...

Being friendly doesn't all lead to riding a dragon. I'd say generic evil big bads are more cartoon-like than dragons having some depth.

i'd name my dragon Scrambles

Then what do you do? Train it and then do battle with other dragon trainers? :facepalm:

TES is not Pokemon, or Digi-mon, or Monster Rancher, or whatever. STOP TRYING TO ANIME-IZE MY TES!

no eggs dragons must have nipbles

Lol, How would you like that done ?

Hmmm I wonder if the whelp is smart enough to see it's guardian lying dead in the corner with you right there....oooh plot and intrigue!

Me? I'd ship it off to the Penguins for some good commando training.

Cute and cuddly boys!