Ok so apparently you can get the dragon shouts by reading ancient text on walls and killing dragons and absorbing their powers.

but why wouldn't you be able to learn the dragon shouts while listening to the dragon? i mean if your in combat with a dragon, why cant you learn it based on what they say when they attack you with the power, or by sneaking around one and listening to it speak, if it ever has a reason to.

Because you can't understand the dragons' accents.

no sure if serious....

so what.because the PC is stupid?

Because the designers made it that way?



(Meanwhile, Lore-wise..... it's Magic?. To gain the magic you need the wall. Or..... yeah, you can kind of hear the dragon garbling something out, interspersed with your grunts of pain, clashing swords and armor, big stomping noises as the dragon bangs around, etc. But you'd need to hear it alot to actually get the right pronunciation. And you are kind of distracted by the whole "OMG, dragon trying to RIP OFF MY HEAD!" Getting it off the wall, where you can actually see how the words are spelled, and pick up the proper way to say it, works alot better.)

The words are so powerful and awesome that you can't understand them unless you have the ability to understand them, which is given by killing the dragons. I like this system. Would be way way way too easy to learn such powerful shouts by just listening...

The real question is: How do dragons communicate without killing each other?^^

Dragons can speak whatever they want. If they speak the special words that are dragon shouts though, things don't go so well.

Because that's not how Bethesda coded the game.

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