Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3471274-20130606153913/@comment-155.41.104.70-20140402021516

I really like Dark Jeto's version of Vulthuryol's story. With eating falmer making him weak part, I think it makes sense, aside from DNA and all that real life nonsense. (It's fantasy world afterall) Eat a bunch of poisoned food and you get sick = flawless logic.

About the giant sun thing, it seems to me that one thing all dragons value highly is the sky. Durnevhir, the undead dragon, longed to fly the skies of skyrim after eons in soul cairn, Odhaviing told dragonborn that he will envy the dov after he flies through the sky on his back. I think the one thing Vulthuryol missed about his former life was the sky. I mean Dwemer doesn't have too much longing for the sun or they would have built their cities above the ground more often. The artificial sun and the fact that its resonance summons the dragon could only mean that Dwemer and Vulthuryol had some sort of agreement. An accomodation (they even built a sun for him) and safe harbor for some knowledge dwemer wanted from the dragon. Dwemer were practical people and a live dragon who wants to cooperate with you is not something you see everyday, especially undergound.

Also, dragons love to "talk". They fight when they debate. When you tell Paarthurnax that you aren't here to debate philosophy with him, he tells you that you know little about dovah and when you try to get Paarthurnax to tell you how to get the dragonrend shout, he apologizes to you, telling you that he have indulged in the love of speech for too long. With that in mind, living alone without speech buddy is pretty dreadful thing for a dragon. So I would imagine Vulthuryol loved to have some dwemer to talk to even if the dwemer were just trying to coax some dragon knowledge out of him.

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