The TES Godhead, the Nous of the Aurbis, is a sort of classical Gnostic-pattern cretin-deity. It's the totality of existence, but it's also off. Malformed, even. If it were a child born in the Victorian-era, it'd be deformed sort kept chained in a special "disappointment room" in the attic, away from the world, with only idiot fantasies to keep itself company.
As such, it constantly tells stories, weaves narratives.
Stories about Gods and Daedra,
about Emperors and Madmen,
of Heroes and Slop-Drudges.
But just like the original franchise of Batman movies, the overarching fabula of these stories will eventually metastasize into something hideously contrived and corny if left to run too long. Eventually somebody has to come along and put a stop to it before it gets out of hand and the creative wellspring runs dry, dooming the whole cosmic psychoscape to creative drought and narrative famine.
So yeah, think of Alduin as Christopher Nolan, the Dawn Era as Batman Begins, and the World-Eating as Batman & Robin.
Interesting take on it, but I'm not sure I agree. A _plot_ may die, but I do not think the TES _fabula_ is identical with 'narrative' as you describe it. The open, intricate naturalism of TES does not recommend itself to such an approach: the _fabula_ is endlessly, brilliantly fecund- it keeps making itself, and each iteration contains countless details, each of which is potentially the seed of something else. It could, concievably, continue to play itself out indefinately. As I've intimated elsewhere: the TES universe may technically be an idealistic one, but it is a dialectic. Even: an idealism reaching toward materialism. Perhaps we will even have a rebel (Lorkhan? Camoran? The Dwemer?) who will cross out 'the false is a moment of the true' and write 'the true is a moment of the false'.
In any case, Nirn has never stuck me as the product of a malformed Demiurge. In fact, I have always felt that the roles of Sophia and Demiurgos were curiously confused and inverted in TES: the crippled Lorkhan portrayed as saviour, the infinite Dragon as a fool.
[edit to reply to poor Vancrux: it sounds plausible. One objection I would raise is: it seems to be the wrong, for want of a better word, _direction_ for Alduin. The beast's Elven aspect _wants_ to escape the world and return to the infinite. Would the end of the dream be a bad thing as far as Alduin is concerned? Personally, I doubt that the dream can even end, but that is not something I can prove.
Your explanation makes sense, but we might ask: what do the Nords who tell this myth think would happen if time went on endlessly? Also: what motivates Alduin, if anything?- because I don't think it's safe to assume that he cares about the fate of the universe. I cannot answer these questions.]