Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24.44.231.128-20131201005446/@comment-94.69.50.208-20140125135315

Dagon was a joke of a villain. Nice planning, but ultimately a joke. While he lives to destroy, he shows a lot of cunning, he's not a mindless machine of doom. I think of Alduin, just like Surtur, Fenris or Jormungandr in Norse mythology. Fenris will kill Odin and then be killed in turn, Jormungandr will poison Thor and then he will be killed by him, while Thor will die from the poison after he takes nine steps. Surtur is destined to burn the world at Ragnarok. Nothing more, nothing less, no external motivation, it's just his nature. That's a good way to think of Alduin, seeing as the Nords are the Norse. Although in technical terms of gameplay he's a joke, his role as a world devourer in a fate that neither he nor anyone else can escape ( just like Ragnarok ) is important. But in the end, it's just that, his nature. Now, the plan to accomplish that, is kind of stupid, resurrecting dragons here and there instead of making an army and attack with it all at once. Dagoth Ur was a mortal, who went crazy due to various factors, twisted his own sense of duty and good, turned into a godlike creature and then died a villain's death. He was the "deepest" character of all three by far.