Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130706160459/@comment-10207438-20130712023703

189.54.83.58 wrote: 207.81.24.8 wrote: 5 seconds is way to OP, even 20 for a lot of shouts. This isn't called "Shouting: The Game" theres supposed to be more to it then running around yelling at people. Yeah but remember the dragonborn is a being that posseses the body of a mortal and the soul of a dragon so he is basically a dragon and dragon's source of power is shouting so it shouldn't take too long for the shout to cooldown because you can shout only once in every fight The "Body of a mortal" part is probably what screws his shouts. Dragons are dragons in both soul and body, their body is made to be able to work with the language they use... or the other way around, probably the other way around.

BUT HUMANS(and mer) have weaker bodies, their bodies probably have a hard time recovering from the shouts, not that it can kill them( it might, we don't know) but think of it as gun recoil, they have the same gun, but the guy with a weaker arm feels more recoil.