Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26492438-20150613104655/@comment-26492438-20150616221746

Fogo219 wrote: For the dragon born to use their shouts hey have to absorb a dragon soul. The last dragonborn didnt meat a dragon and kill it until the events of skyrim so they could not use their shouts before this. Miraak is the same he had to absorb dragon souls to use his shouts.As for talos I am not sure because I dont think he ever met any dragons. No one else can learn words of power as quickly as dragonborn and use them. The grey beards had to study their untire life, the dragonborn is able to become just as powerful in a few months. True, the dragonborns are special. But you don't really have to absorb a dragon's soul before using your power. Before you fight your first dragon, you learn the first word of power of Unrelenting force off a word wall in Bleak Falls Barrow. Notice how none of your compainions do this even if they are nords, so your character would have to have the power before that. But that couldn't have been the first time he/she dove into a dangerous ruin like that, or he/she would have never volenteered to get the claw back. So that couldn't be the first time he/she came across a word wall.