Today I undertake a thought experiment to see what happens in Skyrim from Alduin’s perspective.
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Hope you enjoyed it! Its a bit different from my usual stuff but I hope still interesting!
Please make a video on the mushrooms fungi and lichens of Tamriel!💛
I always seen Alduin as a very basic villan but now my opinion has changed, wonder if you would make a video like this for dagoth ur or mirak
This is a great video concept. Nice to see the lore timeline from a totally different angle. Thanks!
I always chalked the Helgen attack to Alduin being like "Bro says there's a human that can beat me down there, I'll show him…uhhh…so besides these old ones that can barely move, there's this younger one that uses the dragon language to kill other people, he must be that dragonborn thing" and the fact that you were there too was just an absolute fluke
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How did no one know about dragons if Parthunaax was on the Throat. He must have come down for food.
Very interesting video! Was a fun watch.
As others have pointed out, the Dragonborn prophecy seems to be Akatosh's way of giving Alduin a proverbial spanking and a lesson in humility, a concept usually foreign to dragons. Maybe next time he will keep his head down and just do his job lol.
Have you ever considered a video covering the plot of the elder scrolls umbriel books?
Excellent video, super interesting. Would love more content like this. Maybe coverage of other ES games, like Oblivion from the perspective of Mankar or Mehrunes Dagon, or ESO main quest from the perspective of Molag Bal.
Can you imagine being a dragon and don't know what time is it? You literally a piece of the time god.
Prospective videos are fun. Hope this does well and we get to see the history of Morrowind from Dagoth Ur's perspective.
I actually never even considered that Parthanaux and Alduin had been fighting at the throat of the world during the opening. 😮
Really did enjoy this! Need more alternative perspective videos. Maybe Ulfric and Tullius?
A very insightful video. Subbed.
Do this but for the Thalmor's Perpsective! I feel like Alduin you dont really see what they're seeing a lot of the time. Could be interesting to see how they'd react to various events, not just main story and civil war
Very interesting take on the story, but still, get everyone being slaved by a powerful dragon is enough to try and get it killed.
Akatosh had to factory reset Alduin this time around
Seeing alduin as the world eater, is there a connection between him and the destruction of the towers?
It's interesting that Helgen is the only village that Alduin outright destroys. It's like he surveyed the aftermath and said "damn that's bad, we should just annoy the villages from now on. Maybe land on a house or two and then call it a day."
I was under the impression – I think the theory came from the FudgeMuppet TES podcast – that Alduin “sensed” a dragon soul at Helgen (the DB), after being basically blinked out of one time-period and into another. He sought to free this soul and razed the settlement in order to find the burial mound or captive dragon, which he doesn’t and flees for Skuldafn(?) or wherever, but unintentionally then frees his doom in the process. Begs the question whether he is truly a master of his own fate, or a slave to it..
My question is how did both Alduin and Delphine know that the first resurrection would be at Kynesgrove? The dragonstone could have had an order to the burials, but Alduin doesn't know of this.
I so wish we could choose to join alduin and bring back the dragon cult and become a dragon preist that would be amazing side note why the heck did akotosh leave the responsibility of desteoying the world with a dragon which fundamentlly by their nature want to dominate and rule its like telling a cat to gourd and protect catnip from peopel who would eat it its kinda asking for the events of skyrim to
Alduin's Perspective: "It was near the end of production, they made slight changes. See originally I wasn't going to be the villain, but I told them, shitty writing and forced quests as usual Bethesda."
I would have loved some dialogue from Odahviin reacting to the mutated forms of dragons from The dragonborn dlc
They ask where is Alduin, but never how is Alduin😭 Jokes aside I've always hated how most people thought Skyrim's story was just about op demi-god protagonist killing big bad dragon when there's more to it than that. I really appreciate these in-depth lore videos!
This looks promising.
12:49 Alduin doesn't try to kill you himself until that fight at the throat of the world. If you meet him again before that when he's resurrecting other dragons he'll just fly away and let the resurrected dragon fight you
The moment you realize that if Alduin would have waited 5 more minutes the Dragonborn would have been executed and no one would be able to stop him
Alduin lands: Sees banners with a dragon on it everywhere. Sees soldiers with dragon symbols on their armor executing people who don't have dragon symbols on their armor.
Alduin: "Clearly these people don't worship me anymore."
Sidenote: He could have told one of the sides that Akatosh sent him and the other dragons to aid in their struggle. Gained their trust. Instead of just torching the place. But I guess that's part of his personality. He doesn't have the foresight and patience of his father.
I like to think Alduin came through the time wound, recognized he was not in his own time, and flew toward the first dragon he sensed: The Last Dragonborn. This understandably drives him into a rage and he proceeds to sack the whole town. As for Alduin escaping just in time, that can only be divine intervention or predestination.
My question is if Alduin ran into Partysnacks first, knowing he's a traitor, why wouldn't he have killed him?
Thanks good video
Incredible, makes a lot of sense
I like the idea that the dragonborn stole the tablet mere hours before Alduin theoretically went to bleak falls barrow, it makes the player seem more like the nemesis to him. Constantly foiling his plans, would've been cool if he became a random encounter after Sahklokniir was killed – one that you'd have to hide from rather than fight.
Does parthanax say its been a long time since he spoke with his kin when he teaches you the words of power for fire shout