http://i26.lulzimg.com/779a74.png certainly looks like a Jill.. a huge black dragon, or maybe it's another type of dragon that wasn't mentioned yet? If so what do you think are it's special ability? It certainly looks like it could be of a wind attribute, having the ability to use the Unrelenting Force shout and sent enemies flying back.

maybe its alduin???!?!?!??!!?!?who knows well maybe bethesda

Alduin is supposed to be a flaming yellow/red dragon.

That was how he appeared in Oblivion, but his Skyrim statue is much darker and more corporeal:

http://game-preorders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/skyrim-ce-alduin-statue.jpg


Really, he can appear however he wants.

Aren't all the dragons in the game Jills?

jills from what i read months ago are dark grey/black dragons. basically they are alduin's elite troops.

The dragon in the concept looks exactly like Alduin.

If I recall correctly, the Jills are spirits who take the form of black dragons serving Alduin. Basically Alduin's version of Akatosh' minute maiden angels.
Can't remember where I read this though... Might've been tvtropes.

Ah, here you go. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OurAngelsAreDifferent under Examples -> Video Games "The Elder Scrolls has a race of beings called "Jills," which are described as "the minute-maidens of Akatosh," and function as Angels in relation to him. In Skyrim they will make their first in-game appearance as massive black Dragons that will try to eat your face off with some regularity.
Many lesser Daedra could count as Angels as well, depending on how you view their respective Prince."

thats what i said well almost the same

That explains a lot! Thanks! Well from the looks of it, that dragon in the concept art may be :

i) Alduin using an Unrelenting Force shout
ii) A Jill using an Unrelenting Force shout
iii) A 'regular' type of dragon, being black and having a wind attribute, therefore using an Unrelenting Force shout.

"Jill" is an archaic term for a female dragon. The Jills so far mentioned in lore are Akatosh's minute-menders, who help put time back together after he breaks. It's reasonable to assume Alduin has his own Jills for his own purposes, but there's not much on them except that they're female dragons that serve a dragon god of time.

The dragons in-game may or may not be Jills. All we have linking them is an off-handed remark by a journalist made during the March (April?) event in Utah. Neither Bethesda nor any other journalist has used the term in relation to Skyrim.

love how nobody has noticed or even read up on the lore of Skyrim. The Nords call Akatosh, Alduin. Alduin IS akatosh. Akatosh is not a gold red dragon (from the end of the main plot line in oblivion) but rather a dark blackish looking dragon. Though I do think it's kind of cool that we'll get to see Akatosh in his true form not his divine form we see in oblivion. I can only wonder what the main plot line has in store for us. it'll surely be very based around the gods as it was in oblivion. And also, has anyone noticed that we get to see Akatosh at the end of two TES games in a row? just some food for thought.

Wow.

If dragons are using "force shouts" can we be expecting to be knocked on our asses a lot? :dead:

Guys...that looks exactly like Alduin in the Dragon statuet for the CE...PLEASE TELL ME that they were joking when they said thats Alduin on the word wall and that it is actually an Elite Dragon, which is far more fitting. me thinks.

Why do you need proof Jills are in the game? The idea of the Jills came up in the development of Skyrim, they didnt exist in lore before the game. What more proof do you need that something is in the game, than that the thing is part of the game?

My thought is that it's highly unlikely that concept sketch is Alduin. I think after a certain point in our character's development (and/or progress in the MQ) we'll see "Alduin's Elites" start to appear. I'm hoping that we get thrown around by their shouts and that they're much more ferocious than the fire and frost variants we've seen so far. I doubt Bethesda would spoil something like that and let us discover it ourselves. Well, I hope so anyway.

Well, whatever it is, or who it is, it looks freaking scary.

I wouldnt Doubt Too, but if you look at the Contents of the CE it fits a 12 inch Dragon statue of Alduin on a Wordwall, you'd think they wouldn't spoil how he looks right? I' hoping it was a typo or error and that the Dragon is an Elite

I think Jills are metaphysical concepts, not actual beings.

For all we know, the statue could be modelled after an in-game statue that depicts him on a Word Wall like that, and that the "real" animated Alduin (should he ever actually show) will be scaled up in comparison.

Looks like a frost dragon concept art~ the wings are an icy blue~