Far worse things come from Mexico, my friend.

Its probably more likely that both are right.
There are theories that in some fiction sets, gods are what people believe them to be, which would fit well in TES.
For instance, Akatosh and Alduin represent the same thing, but could be different aspects of it, like different personalities, each with its own goal.

And even if it doesn't follow that, there is a grain of truth to each story. Im sure Akatosh/Alduin/Fred has done both good and bad. The Imperials over-look the bad, or attribute it to something else, where as the Nords over-look the good or falsely attribute something else. Its more likely that our god Fred has his/her/Fred's own goals in mind, not any mortals. Maybe Fred's goals was in line with aiding mortals, until now where they are in the way?

Either way you end up with a similar point of, were not quite sure whats going down.
Although I believe that in this instance the Nordic interpretation of Fred, aka Alduin, is more appropriate. Even if not i'll find a way to kill him.


"Alduin, meet Wabajack!"
Sheogorath beats all...

I always assumed it was Akavir, but the tiger dragon isn't the one leading the attack that was foretold in some book I read in Oblivion. I haven't a clue where they're from.

with Nordic mythology they should come from the breathe of the sky like the Nords themselves did.

I thought it was because the amulet of kings was destroyed, it awoke the dragons. Along with the events of every elder scrolls game, it led up to the end of the third era and the return of dragons. There was a GI article about this, let me see if i can get the link from the site.

My guess (purely a guess, based on absolutely nothing) was that they were in hiding across Nirn after the cliffracers drove them out of Tamriel. They can return to Tamriel now because St. Jiub drove all the cliffracers out of Morrowind, and most would have probably died from Red Mountain's eruption anyway. They probably didn't just decide to come back because the cliffracers are gone however, they would probably come back on word from Alduin.

Maybe it's possible that Alduin made some sort of treatise with the dragons: help me destroy mortals so I can recreate the world, and you guys can stay.

Again, this is all just guessing and having fun. :laugh:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/12/26/decrypting-the-elder-scrolls.aspx

The dragons from Vvardenfell are Akavir dragons, they flew over from Akavir to escape being killed out. Tosh Raka turned into a dragon, but no he isn't leading these dragons just because they could be from Akavir. It is either dragons that Akatosh(Alduin) is summoning, or they're dragons from Akavir aka the dragons that were lead out of Vvardenfell by the Cliff Racers.