Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26177830-20150401044533/@comment-121511-20150402165141

TheEssence wrote: I have read some subreddit on the Alduin matter on Reddit/TES. Most people were giving the answer that Alduin is capable of destroying both daedras and aedras to reset the timeline. I only know that the source is from the Eating Birth of Dagon, MK. Thartaag the World Devourer in UESP is deemed to be another version of Skaar in the image of Alduin.

Alduin is also to be said that he is not the First-born of Akatosh, he may have been existed really long time ago, even prior to the Lorkhan era or long before that.

Most people said Alduin in Skyrim game is weak, and is it true that he is extraordinary more powerful in the lore?

I mean the r/teslore subreddit specifically. It is a helpful source of information, and there are a great many there who are more knowledgeable than myself.

At any rate, Daedra and Aedra cannot be destroyed: no et'Ada can, as the Original Spirits are not simply entities, they are concepts. Beyond that, Oblivion and Aetherius are outside of Alduin's purview: his role is to eat the world and turn the Kalpa, resetting Nirn to Convention. The Kalpic Cycle is restricted to Mundus. et'Ada can be changed however, and just as Boethiah transformed Trinimac into Malacath, Alduin (or whatever the World Eater of that Kalpa was named) transformed the Leaper Demon King into the Dagon.

On Thartaag, I only stated that he may be a previous World Eater whose name was half-remembered by the Skaal and incorporated into their mythology. As Kalpas reset to Convention, Aspect-Gods are consumed and new Aspect-Gods are shed from the corpses of the Aedra in accordance with the new cultures that arise on Nirn: Alduin cannot be a trans-Kalpic phenomenon, as he was shed from the Aka-Tusk by the Nords, and the Nords do not exist in every Kalpa. As the Kalpas must turn, and they have many times in the past, it logically follows that every Kalpa has its own unique World Eater.

On Alduin's claim to be the "Firstborn of Akatosh", it could either be that Akatosh rewrote history in the moment of his birth such that he was Chief Aspect and had always existed, or it could be that Alduin knew that the Last Dragonborn knew nothing of Aka or Aka-Tusk, and thus put it into terms that he could understand: it is not the first time he changes his wording condescendingly so that the Last Dragonborn may understand what he is saying.

And gameplay is gameplay: do not mistake it for lore. The Last Dragonborn was an incredibly powerful Hero, and the only being on Nirn that was capable of defeating the World Eater.