I REALLY hope, that on first levels (til 15? til even 20 maybe??) you 90% run away from dragon and try to hide or get to safety (dungeon, house)
I'd HATE that I wouldn't be scared of dragons, I really wanna feel as they would just kick my ass!!!
Fighting dragons on L10 would be nonsense for me, of course I hope I could put difficulty up a bit or there's more making dragons much more tougher to beat, if that is needed.
Well perhaps one of the first things you must do is go visit someone that will teach you how to combat dragons? Like in Oblivion you are sent to visit Jauffre at the end of the tutorial, which also starts the main quest.
So I heard that
Spoiler At the beginning of the game your once again a prisoner but in Skyrim things are more gritty and brutal. This time around your sentenced to death by execution. The executioner is about to chop off your head when Esbern appears and saves you. Esbern is one of the last surviving Blades and mentor to Skyrim's protagonist. (voiced by Max von Sydow it's his words you hear in the trailer) I imagine that this series of events is part of the tutorial at the very beginning of the game and directly leads to where you first learn your the Dovahkiin or Dragonborn, the reason he saved you in the first place I assume.
Maybe Esbern teach you himself or maybe he'll have you visit the Greybeards atop High Hrothgar, assuming you successfully manage to climb the 7,000 steps to High Hrothgar so they can train you in the way of the tongues.
The Greybeards are known for prophesying certain people's destinies. They did so with Tiber Septim aka Talos (see spoiler)
Spoiler Atop a great mountain that rises above the tundra and forests of Skyrim known as The Throat of the World sits High Hrothgar. A settlement that is home to the Greybeards who live in absolute silence in order to better attune themselves to the voice of the sky.
It became known from the arriving storms that the Greybeards were about to speak. As the nearby villages were being evacuated, Talos, instead, made his way to the mountains where the Greybeards lived. When he arrived, the gags of the Greybeards were removed and when they spoke his name the World shook. The Greybeards told Talos that he would come to rule Tamriel and that he must go south to do so.
These mysterious old men will play a key part in the Dragonborn’s story. They are highly versed in the power of dragons and the Dragonborn hero (you) must climb the 7,000 steps to reach the remote retreat and be trained by them.
These dragon shouts are the same source of power that launched the last line of emperors. Tiber Septim would use the dragon shouts to lead his troops into battle and unite Tamriel under one empire. Hundreds of years later, the Septim line has died out, and no other dragonborn have been seen for many years. That is, until the hero of Skyrim arrives on the scene.
It's not yet been confirmed if the Greybeards will infact be teaching you your first dragon shout but if they did it begs the question. Which one?
My guess is the one that act most like the Thu'um of Nord legends. The power of a push of great power that sends foes hurtling away from you staggered by the force of your yell. Spoken in the game, your hero will intone the three words for the full shout: “Fus, Ro, Dah!” Translated into English, “Fus” means force, “Ro” means balance, and “Dah” means push.
The ability to use the dragon language already existed in the fiction and lore of TES somewhat. It was called “Thu’um.” The concept roughly translates as “The Voice.”
King Harrald Hairy Breeks was known to have used Thu'um. Also King Wulfharth who's thu'um was so powerful that he could not verbally swear into the office when elected by the Pact of Chieftains so scribes were used to draw up his oaths, and finally with Tiber Septim who was visited at the battle of http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1150358-skyrim-trailer-breakdown/page__view__findpost__p__16838257 and taught Thu'um by Shor himself.
This power is thought to have been learned to mankind when Orkey, the god of the orcs, tried to ruin the Nords, even in Atmora where he stole their years. Seeing the strength of king Wulfharth, Orkey summoned the ghost of Alduin Time-Eater. At Orkey's request the god of time transformed nearly every Nord to the age of six. Wulfharth, now a child, pleaded to Shor, the dead Chieftain of the Gods, to help his people. Shor's own ghost then fought the Time-Eater on the spirit plane, as he did at the beginning of time and won. Orkey's folk, the orcs, were ruined by this act.
Wulfharth watched the battle in the sky and learned a new thu'um, wich he called What Happens When You Shake the Dragon Just So. He used this new magic to change his people back to normal. But in his haste to save so many, he shook too many years out on himself. He grew older than the Greybeards themself, and died. The flames of his pyre were said to have reached the hearth of Kyne itself.
Maybe while walking down the steps you'll even encounter your first dragon and have to test out your new ability? Who knows.
But Dragons are suppose to be a regular threat and I'de like to think they would give you some tools before you start your journey.
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