These were the days of Hoag the Greater, born in a boot...[Long after] the two bells [of the All-Maker's Goat] rang out their clamouring, calling the end of days again in Sarthaal and the world, and Alduin's shadow was cast like carpetflame on east, west, south, and north...[he was] epoch eater. For as far as any man's eyes, only High Hrothgaar remained above the churning coils of dragon stop.
And Alduin said, "Ho ha ho."

-The First Fight of the Aldudugga

Alduin is the World-Eater, the greatest and best of his kind and its undisputed Ruling King. He suffers no equal. Eras after he is cast out of time he returns to a world changed, yet he has not decayed in what was, to everyone else, thousands of years. He still has his youthful vigor and arrogance, the desire and strength to lead.

These were the days of the Sons of Skyrim spilling their own blood... Atop the High Hrothgaar, the endless storm whipped and whirled and sprayed eternal cascades of white down the black stone, and Paarthurnax's wings spread white with one million ninety-five thousand frosts, the sun shone crimson from the east through the time-shredded dragon-leather on the snow.

And Paarthurnax said, "Su'um ahrk morah."

Paarthurnax sits hidden from all eyes atop his mountain, in marked contrast to the braggart Alduin. He alone among possibly all dragons has passed alive every single sequential day since his creation and it shows. He has the desire to lead, and perhaps the strength, but that is tempered with the deepest fear of all: the fear of his own inner violence. He stands as the betraying advisor who counsels war.

These were the days of the Great Return... In the endless blue of the sky, the wind broke across the horns of Odahviing, his scales shining a second scarlet sun against the [tops of the clouds]. The air itself screamed with the speed of his coming to the call, as he flew back at last to war.

And Odahviing said, "Ahrk Hin Dir."

Odahviing is the second ally, the free agent working for himself and allying with the strongest at any cost for his own gain. His aid is necessary and invaluable, but not to be trusted and does come at the cost of lives. He is the betraying warrior.

These were the days of my glory and power, when [all fled, alternatively all fell] before my Voice... With frost and fire blowing in my face I Shouted Alduin down, and Paarthurnax sickened at the thrumming of my snow-throat as he fought beside me. Humiliated, the coward Alduin fled to Sovngarde where I slew him.

And I said, "Dovahkiin!"

The Dragonborn is the trickster, the Other, the Outsider. He, with his thu'um and strength and lust for dominance, seemed for all the world a dragon, as Lorkhan seemed for all the world an Aedra, and in the end was the least and best of them all.


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Well there's my fan-[censored] for the week and my writing for the evening. Hope y'all enjoyed it. The four main dragon characters of Skyrim being a second set of one god just occurred to me.

Sounds more like dovahkiin is Akatosh since he didn't get his heart torn out, the betraying warrior and advisor are on his side, and he won. I do really like this I'm just wondering if there is an explanation for what seems to me like inconsistencies. I do like the betraying warrior and advisor titles, I'm curious where did you find those?

Juggling the Underking and Arctus's subset of betrayer/betrayed.

There's never quite a one-to-one between the sets, so I took a few liberties.

I liked it. Could you explain the the words spoken by the dragons?

Su'um ahrk morah,
Breath and focus/thought,

Ahrk Hin Dir,
And your death (die?),

Dovahkiin!
Dragonborn!

I mean, I'm sure you put some thought behind what each of these characters were saying. It just isn't clicking for me at the moment.

I was trying to put some emphasis on who they were. Odahviing loves to fight and to kill, Paarthurnax is calm and meditative, but lacking a personality that isn't reflective of the player at hand I just used the one constant for the Dragonborn.