Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27038858-20151003072000/@comment-28589830-20160127071906

Silver4Raven wrote: "You can break my body, but you can't break my soul," is basically what it means to be dragonkind... Unless you're a dragonborn, you cannot kill the dragon's soul, which means you cannot kill the dragon. Does that make sense? It should. Alduin is not dead. He's very much alive, somewhere on Nirn. If he hasn't been resuscitated, he will be by the next era to battle the next Dragonborn, who he may defeat and destroy Nirn. Alduin doesn't have to be on Nirn, he could also be in Aetherius, Oblivion or some other realm. there won't be a next dragonborn to fight Alduin, the player character in Skyrim is referred to as the last dragonborn