So if Aka is capable of stroking out and losing control of his domain, what about the other gods? Could some metaphysical flub lead to say, Mara breaking? A catastrophic mother-break, where love and reciprocity cease to function and there's just planetwide mass murder, cannibal orgies, unchecked horse-and-buggy road rage.

It's silly, I realize, especially since the dragonbreak was introduced as a handwave more than anything, but still, I've got lingering questions.

Perhaps, but Aka is special- the first Aedroth, and the first Idea that refused to die. Note that his sphere encompasses (or even transcends) all of creation, which cannot be said of the others.

I think it's also moot whether the other Aedra are identical with their spheres. The Aedra who were subsumed and became the Earth Bones seem to be of a different (lesser) order- the 'concept' Aedra are stuck somewhere in-between. Plus, who would want to break the others, aside from Arkay? Actually, I think Arkay would have been broken by now if it were possible.

I'm looking forward to some more mannish lore in Skyrim- perhaps some of these issues will be clearer when we have a strong, non-imperial perspective.

I suppose you could think of the wild hunt as smal scale Yffre-breaks.

I know Arkay's rules, laws, and blessings are constantly being broken by liches, necromancers, and vampires.

I've got no idea, but a Motherbreak would make for one heck of a game.

Akatosh is really the only divine who is absolutely necessary for the existence of Mundus. He is also the one thats real messed up in the head. So my guess is that the other Aedra are both much harder to break and much less noticeable if broken.

But, for example, Kyne is air. So wouldn't everyone suffocate if she broke? I'd say that would be pretty notable.

Or there would be no wind.

Or rain, as that is supposedly Kyne's tears.

Or localized wind formations that crush people into dust, Entire cities that are ripped apart by cyclonic winds that materialize in an instant and disappear in seconds, harsh gales appearing without warning to blow ships off course before the air suddenly and inexplicably becomes still.

This is much better than what I suggested.

Imagining Arkay breaking is fun. Possibly a zombie apocalypse, or perhaps people coming back from the dead en masse while others just drop dead. Could be a nice excuse to see some old faces again.

I was actually thinking something along the lines of no one being able to die.

That'd be a comical world to live in. It would almost be like that episode in Family Guy when Death sprained his ankle.

it would be horrific, imagine that all the people your adventurer beat to death just lay tattered and torn in their dark caves...on the brink of death, laying in agony until arkey is fixed. It wouldn't be a good day to be a bandit in cyrodiil

Or the people dropping dead for no reason, or people coming back to life at random as Arkay is the Cycle of Life and Death.

If those dead gods dream, sure.

My thought was that time was breakable because Aka's mind was already shattered.

Good point. None of the other aedra (or anybody for this matter) are as convoluted as Dragon God/s of Time are.

When you harness air, you are using the Voice. Think about that.

Isn't the Shade of the Revenant the results of an Arkay Break, depending on your point of view?

It seems like Dragonbreaks occur when something deemed impossible by the local concept of time occurs anyway. This is generally multiple thing happening at once (besides those crazy Selectives that I have yet to figure out). As such, maybe zombies are the result of Arkay breaking. They live, but they are no longer alive. It may be that Dragonbreaks are more obvious because the events connected to them effect people and places in significant ways. But this seems to require objective things (it is 3:00, it is not 3:01, he is alive, he is not dead) as subjective things would be much more difficult to break. If an artist says that his painting is beautiful, and a critic disagrees, is Dibella broken because of the disagreement? If so, the effect could be small enough to go unnoticed, and if not, then maybe only certain things can be broken.

Nah, it's a cycleblock