Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-11444045-20141107145055

When I say Alduin is dead i meant he himself is gone. As some of you listed the people who were defeated or "killed" their souls were split into shards / fragments and other entities showed up. I still wouldn't call Alduin a god because in my eyes that would mean he cannot be killed or defeated not even by dragonborn. Only someone with equal power or higher could stop him. I still fee the power he has gives him the powers of a god but not a true god. But this all goes back to how ambiguous the title god is here and how hard it is to define it in TES. So it could be probable we're both right who knows.

Also considering Tamriel and everything is actually a dream state created by the Godhead he would be the defacto god in the way I'm thinking of.

As far as what happened last time with Alduin he was pushed forward in time because the nords messed up using the elder scroll and sent him forward as part of the prophecy. None of that actually happened this time, the dragon born simply beat him with the help of the old dovakins nords in sovngarde. So the world eater was beaten or killed BUT perhaps his Dov reclamation or ending the world plot will be carried over to a new entity to continue. Which could be interesting if bethesda would choose that route and see who this new entity looks like. :)

I mean the age of dragons should be over after skyrim i can't imagine bethesda would ever use them again in future titles seeing how skyrim was supposed to be the last dragon born and ending of the dragons to follow paarthurnax in following the way of the voice.