Deviant Ingredient wrote...
So I was wondering, could the Dragonborn and Alduin be aspects of each other? Because I was thinking about it and by defeating Alduin the DB pushed him back onto the path of being the World Eater and thus some day the cause the end of the world. Alduin himself without the DB seemed to want to rule the world again with dragons like before and you can't rule something that is destroyed. Even Paarthurnax states that those who try and stop the the end may hasten and vice versa so it had me wondering if the two were two sides of the same coin who were then broken off aspects of Akatosh who could be the other side of Lorkhan.
I also read a nifty connection to the prophecy where someone stated that the DB (rebel) fights against Alduin (king). I know it was implying otherwise but it's still a nice correlation.
Just speculations on my part but I was curious about what others think.
Michael Kirkbride, the guru who likes to explain and confuse often in the same sentence, had this to say on the subject:
"Don't forget that gods can be shaped by the mythopoeic forces of the mantlers-- so Tosh Raka could be an Akaviri avatar of Akatosh with a grudge against his mirror-brother in Cyrodiil.
Just like Akatosh-as-we-usually-know-him could time-scheme against his mirror-brother of the Nords, Alduin, to keep the present kalpa-- perhaps his favorite-- from being eaten.
Notice all the coulds."
It's a pretty common theory among the lore geeks that there is some kind of enantimorph going on in Skyrim, but the trio I've most heard is Ulfric- Tullius- Dragonborn. The parallels are many. The roles aren't that clear, but then again in the original enantimorph the dudes switched roles at times, too. I think Tullius ~ Hjalti, the general who fights for the Colovian warlord and stands in for Torygg, the King; Ulfric ~ Wulfharth, the one who restores Nords to their old gods but was told by the the Greybeards that he was not the chosen one, the Rebel; and Dragonborn ~ Zurin Arctus, the mythic power channeler, and Witness. But that's a theory that has holes, so we'll have to see how it pans out with the rest of the DLC.
Something else that is cool to think about is that in entering Sovngarde, you are probably acting as an avatar of Shor. You notice that Shor makes no appearance whatsoever in the Hall of Valor. To me it has a parallel from the Songs of Wulfharth: "Boy Wulfharth pleaded to Shor, the dead Chieftain of the Gods, to help his people. Shor's own ghost then fought the World Eater on the spirit plane, as he did at the beginning of time, and won..."
Modifié par Addai67, 06 mars 2013 - 06:26 .