Who Let the Dovahkiins out? Part II

Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:40 pm

Another look at this:
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We know that some people say dragonborn come from Akatosh, and some say the Emperor dragonborn become dragonborn after they light the fires. I think. But Akatosh came in later and we now know Alessia isn't the first one. Miraak apparently was. So that means that someone else was sending them besides Akatosh. I don't think it was Alduin because that wouldn't make sense. Why would he send these beings in the world that could be his undoing? So another possibility is Shor. As some have said, Shor and Alduin have been enemies before, likely still are.

Once in a past Kalpa when the Greedy man tried to hide pieces of the world along with the leaper King to undo him, the other time when he and alduin's ghost fought and Wulfharth learned the shout "What Happens When You Shake the Dragon Just So", and again when Alduin came to Sovngarde. So would it not make sense for Shor to send Dragonborn? They devour the souls of Dragons. Sounds like something one would do if they were an enemy of Alduin. And our destiny was to save Sovngarde and the world (the one he made possible) from Alduin. If not Shor then who in the world did the Atmorans believe sent the Dragonborn? Again it cant be Alduin because they demonize Alduin. No one else in their pantheon makes sense.

And if it is Shor, could it not be also Akatosh as well, as far as the Cyrodillic Dragonborn go?


Last time I looked at this and made a thread, one answer I looked at and accepted was that Bormhau? Spelling, sorry. Another aspect of the Time dragon. Or Aka-Tusk, which I guess is Akatosh. Well, that would make sense, but could it still not also somehow be Shor? I heard the theory about Lorkhan and Akatosh "being the same" or similar, or two sides of the same coin, etc etc. I'd like an explanation of that theory btw, but anyway if this is so, doesn't it mean Lorkhan could have control of who is given the gift of Dragon blood? His aspects are after all dragonborn a lot of the time. And MK does say Aka-Tusk is Shor's enemy brother in Fight Four, "The Tennpennt Winter...Again"

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/fight-four-tenpenny-winteragain%E2%80%9D

Three god-guisers came to the ice-lined shoreline of Rebec’s holdings, to see these ashen stalwarts of the Nords, all dress-fleshed in Greybeard aspect. The first of them was tall and long of limb, whose [flanks] could not fully hide the scale-bright hide of his true celestial station. He was the Aka-Tusk, a somewhat foreign spirit (yeah, right) from the Totem Wars, and known mainly in the tongue of Men as the enemy-brother of Shor, and he said, “Look on them, my friends, and how the North has gone insane with the beating and beating of the Doom Drum, whose father they fool-talk call their All-Maker.”
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Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:52 am

Something else I thought about was that Sovngarde is supposed to be free from the concept of time, which is Akatosh's thing, so does that mean Shor has fealty over that too, or is it simply because Sovngarde is supposedly in Aetherius, where time wouldn't exist?
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Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:53 pm

See.... that plainly states that Shor is the All-Maker.

But Aka-Tusk can't be Akatosh because Akatosh is not an enemy of Shor.. but then MK says Alessia made covenant with the Aka-Tusk.. which reeks of making things more convoluted than they need to be, along with most of Akatosh's lore.

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Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:02 pm

Yea I remember that talk, that they made things way too murky on the subject of old Aka, even for them.

Also, that's another point. People say they think Alduin's really the all maker, and this says shor. Maybe both are right? Sort of. Alduin isn't Akatosh, but he is a spin off.
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Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:59 am

Alduin is a part of the same being Akatosh is a part of. And that being is bat-poop insane.

As to who is sending Dovahkiin, I honestly think it's Shezzar. Many people disagree with me.

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Post » Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:12 am

See, the thing about Dragons and Dragon Blood and all that's involved in that business is that it's mostly wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff and you shouldn't question it too much because of reasons.

I'm glad we settled that.

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