I really you can speak The Dragontongue for real so you can understand what ancient foes say.

There could be a very simple way : no indication whatsoever about where the dragonshout-walls (bar one or two) are located. Wanna be a powerthingy ? Earn it through patience and exploration.

Well, I can hope anyway.

Interesting update.

so it obviously means that, when we're creating our character we are going to choose the tone of the voice ... kind of like dragon age i think

But there are also 3 levels so:

Tap = one word. Hold for X seconds = two words. Hold for Z seconds = three words.
Keep holding = Level 2
Keep holding = Level 3

It's your standard charging meter.

You speak the truth, and saved me the time to reply.

Or wait a bit and look it up on UESP once they're on there. Let other people do the work!

Well, I hope Bethesda sticks with proper level-scaling like they said they would (FO3's). It would be a disaster if any level 1 character could just go and do the shout quests relatively easily.

This has me extremely excited.

Awesome update. New screens, and teasers to dragon shouts and Dragon Summoning. Awesome.

Certain shouts could have level requirements for all we know.

THIS. IS. EPIC....now back to Morrowind...

My world is complete.

The good thing about such balance of Thu'um-earning is it possibly allows people to try their hand at such things regardless of how ready they are for it. More of a natural return to open facilitation of challenge versus controlled challenge at every step.

Good update. Dragon shouts sound like fun and finding them too.

Where did you see that ? That seems unlikely ; it would mean that for being able to learn a shout, you must kill a dragon. Tedious much ! And that would mean 60 dragons in-game? There were less Oblivion gates, and it felt you couldn't move for the things.

I kinda thought that this would be more, after - say - five shouts learned, you are compelled to kill a dragon to be able learn more, something like that.

On the first page is that someone dressed in a black cloak in the second pic/concept art?

Glad to hear the Dragon Shouts got a Germanic/Scandinavian hardness to them. Finally something that does not sound too american when it comes to pronounciation.

Great update, Skyrim keeps on looking more and more promising.

Also, liking the oddly 'ME2 Collector ship' vibe I'm picking up from the ruins concept art on p.3. Keepin' it weird.

First screenshot makes the game look promising.

Lazy Immersive, unite ! *still has the location of the Threads of Mephala printed out*

This is an excellent update, because, as others have mentioned, it shows that there's a strong design focus on integrating the lore into the gameplay. It's a very good sign that a large portion of the marketing campaign is devoted to telling us about the lore; IIRC, most of the hype around Oblivion was about the better gameplay mechanics and graphics.

When I first heard about dragons in ESV, I was a little concerned that they would just feature because of a "cool" element. I'm still pretty sure that BGS wanted to put them in partly for that aspect, but it's pleasing that they are putting a lot of effort into integrating dragons into the gameworld. We've got the Dragonborn, the Greybeards, High Hrothgar, Tiber Septim, the dragon language, dragon shouts, etc. We're seeing a fairly richly connected set of cultural themes and historical events, and it looks like these will make a significant difference to the gameplay and the sorts of quests we'll get.

What is not clear, however, is how all this ties in to the Akatosh-wanting-to-eat-the-world main storyline... But maybe I don't want to know about that until I play the game.

No, the three levels are the three words. As in. level one would be Fus. Level two is Fus Ro. Level three is Fus Ro Dah. They say the shouts get more powerful as you learn each word of the shout. At least that's how I understand it. :shrug:

Cannot wait to use the Dragon Shouts at least they will be a tad more harder to get especially finding the words aspect, meaning in more exploration! :celebration:

Thats what he said.