Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11388043-20130711070950/@comment-86.141.8.93-20170607201634

You are the Last Dragonborn.

Btw those of you asking about the Snow Tower it is the Throat of the World.

To understand why you are the last Dragonborn you must understand Alduin 's role. While the Aedra were creating Mundus they ran into a problem, whenever they made a planet which could sustain life it would fail within a few thousand years and become an apocalyptic wasteland. (Possible Fallout connection, theorists, it even supports christianity in that the world is apparently only five thousand years old and that dinosaur bones are fake) This would become annoying and tiresome to clean up and re-absorb the energy. They then created Alduin for this menial task. His arsenal of shouts was larger than any other dragon (Skyrim massively underpowered him) and he could even call down a rain of meteors to destroy a planet with only three words.

The Aedra then realised that the only way to create lasting life was to all but sacrifice themselves. Here is where opinions split ; The elf races believe that the Aedra physically procreated and that all life on Nirn is descended from the Aedra. Humans believe that the Aedra used the last of their power to create life and placed the first Nords on the Snow Tower but this is simply not true, Nords come from Atmora and then a the Imperials split from the Nords, then The Bretons split from the Imperials, Redguards come from Yokuda and the human belief is simply incorrect.

Alduin was now redundant, him and his dragon kin were useless and became stranded on Nirn. They settled in Akavir but were massacred and chased out by the Tsaesci. They flew West and found Vvardenfell but were massacred and chased out by combined efforts of the Cliff Racers, Chimer and Dwemer. They then found Skyrim and managed to form a peace with the native Nords, the Nords venerated them and the dragons didn't kill them all. After a few hundred years that changed. Dragons have ambition and the need for domination in their soul, Alduin more than most. It isn't just racist, the dragons are actually biologically superior to the Nords in almost every way, they don't age, can't die (unless you're the Dragonborn), are smarter, stronger and much faster. The dragons took a leaf out of the Ayleids book and decided to enslave the races of men. This failed to last for long.

The Dragonborn only exists while Alduin exists, you are Shor and Akatosh's failsafe. You only have your powers because Alduin needs to be prevented from doing what he was created to do.