Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11296535-20130914180002/@comment-4514669-20150511012811

MASSIVE GAME CHANGER! I just did the quest to rewrite Olaf's verse. I decided to have it say that King Olaf made a deal with Numinex. Viarmo agreed that this made sense, as Olaf did become king and Numinex later ESCAPED.

My new hypothesis based on this is that, out of embarrassment, another dragon was captured after Numinex went free. This would explain why he seemingly did not know his own name when Paarthurnax visited him - it wasn't Numinex at all! I should imagine that this dragon was killed or allowed to starve after people who knew of the escape of Numinex began to ask too many questions, talk too much, and doubt the recapture having taken place. In death, there was no way for the people to know the true story. But some remembered and carried on the true tale, and a few like Viarmo remember it now.