So basically, a bunch of dragons fought the mortals, but since a few of them knew the way of the voice, the lost.

Also, Alduin fights the mighty three and loses by the use of the Elder Scroll, which is cheating.

Paarthunax was responsible for teaching mortals the thu'um, and Kyne was the one who persuaded Paarthunax to teach them.

What else do we know about the Dragon Wars? Anything will help.

Paarthurnax apparently was a total [censored] before he decided to help the humans rebel against Alduin.

You should probably go here: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1357025-the-dragon-war-documented/

From what I got, it started with the Dragon Priests oppressing their subjects. A rebellion started. The dragons really just tried to stay out of it, but the Dragon Priests insisted that they help. Then Alduin kicks everyone's ass, the Kyne makes Paar give Thu'um to the ancient Nords, then the Nords kicks the dragons' asses, then Alduin is like "aw hell naw" and eats that nord chick, then he gets sent forward in time.

I actually did look at that post, Wulfharth. It's simply a theory of how Ysgramor was a dragon.

It doesn't really help. But thanks!

Well you're onto something, definitely. Swageriffically so.

Is that all we know though? Could there be players that are mentioned but not directly to the Dragon War?

There was also the dragon priest fortress Forelhost that managed to survive past the Dragon Wars unscathed. It was only cleared out during the Nord's pogroms of the Falmer, and even then its inhabitants managed to survive by mass ritual suicide and binding their own souls to the ruin.

It's implied that Forelhost managed to avoid being caught in the Dragon Wars thanks to an excessive use of the Storm Call Shout.

Useful information to know! Definitely the kind of information I'm looking for. I'm guessing this guy would be the most shifty among the priests

Also:

Felldir - Alessia

Hakon - Morihaus

Gormlaith - Pelinal

Damn, six changes and everything.

On the Paarth teaching the Thu'um note, I'm not sure why it's a particularly big deal. The most powerful thu'um in this war would be the one humans came up with themselves. Also, Paarth says they shut him out of their counsel. The three must've not been in his circle of students. Maybe people who inherited from it, but went their own way.

""O Aka, for our shared madness I do this! I watch you watching me wat-*gets eaten by Alduin*"

But he also called them his friends. He must have taught them the thu'um, and during the final moments of the War when they face off with Alduin, they must have shut him out during the very last moments.

Are you saying that they're the same people? :/

mirrors, I'd gander to say.

Ah.. well, I won't argue. You probably remember more than I do.

In any case, it's still an interesting highlight of the war. That there wasn't mutual trust. Even if he had tons of respect and called them the greatest Nord heroes (ever), it wasn't exactly his cause. They decided to stand completely on their own.

Same roles.

Felldir enacts, Gormlaith dies, and Hakon presumably sires the horker-race with Felldir.

Oh Anuiel no.

This is a trend that I CANNOT stand in popular media that has Dragons. First there are Dragons, all beautiful, majestic and Powerful for the obvious reason of being Dragons and then humans come along, they fight the Dragons and somehow win. WHY?!?! HOW?!?!? This Always Happens and it never makes any sense. How exactly did the ruling class of Dragons with the divine Thu'um lose to humans/mer when only few of them could do it??? In the context of this world I can understand the Aedra or Daedra having a hand or turning the tide but until I see proof of this I will question this and other media's line of thinking when it comes to the fantasy of a guy with a sword fighting a giant flying fire/ice/shoutbreathing creature and not getting burnt to a crisp and eaten.

I find this cliche on Beth's part. I liked it better when the common consensus on the fate of the Dragons was that they were eaten by the Tsaesci.

There's a dev RP going on that involves dragons, and there's a post that says that most Dragons peacefully assimilated into Akaviri culture, and the remaining Dragons fled to Skyrim, led by Alduin.

Regarding the humans being able to defeat the dragons, well I wouldn't say only some of them could use the Thu'um. I reckon at the time that every Nord could use at least some form of the Thu'um, although much weaker than a Dragon's Voice. But there were a lot more Men than Dragons. Think bees overpowering wasps, or even birds.

And then the development of Dragonrend, and it was pretty much gg for the Dragons, with the exception of Alduin. The Thu'um of the ancient Nords was fueled by pure hatred, whereas the Dragons could do no such thing.

The idea of defeating Dragons may be cliche, but the way they went about it. There are a lot of elements I don't like about the game, but dragonrend is brillaint, imo. Too bad they don't delve into it much.