Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-8248675-20130814185606

I am quite sure there was an even more ancient representation of Nordic Pantheon, well back then it was Atmoran Pantheon. In that one they did revear Alduin as the main god in place of Shor who was missing and dragons were reveared as his representations. Hence the tyrany of Dragon Priests and Dragons. He was self imposed main god, stealing the place that was rightfuly his father's Akatosh's. Back then all the Ancient Gods had their own animal and a Priest, if you look at the reliefs in most of the halls of stories in Ancient Borrows, you can even see other priests beside Alduin's. However, the Dragon Priests held more power then the priests of other gods.

Also, I do believe back in that Pantheon, the fox was realy Yismir. Later Pantheon talked about Orkey being really a Demon who tricked men into counting their lives by winters. Before that time they say, men lived as long as mer. Orkey cursed them all into being todlers and having a very short life span. It was Wulfheart, who was their king then and Shor who saved them then. The curse was trown onto a nearby tribe of Orcs and they also talk about Shor battling Alduin in the sky over Atmora at that point. That is when Wulfheart leaned a shout from Shor, that allowed him to return the years taken away from his people. However, when he was returning years to himself, he overdid it, giving himself back too many years. He turned old too fast and died. For his deeds, Shor gave Wulfhearth another chance and brough him back to life, for the first time.

Also, as far as statues in Skyrim goes, it is hard to tell if Talos' statue really have a dragon in it. Akatosh's statue, definetly represents him in dragon form and it is not clear weather he is trying to eat the sword, to achieve everlasting peace, or to commit suicide. Now the serpentine figure in Talos' statue can really be, well serpent not a dragon. We all know that Nordic Shor/Lorkhan was represented by a serpent. It may have be an implimation that Talos had slained the old representation of Shor, to take his place in Pantheon like Talos, the divine who had manteled Shor an all of his incarnations. Also, as far as the stained glass image of Akatosh goes, with human head and head of the dragon, it could all mean that Akatosh can appear both as a dragon and as human, he is a god of time after all, who can shape reality how he wants if he wanted to ("Dragon Break"). The reference of Vivec to Talos being a king with two heads, could as well be understood as two faced. Seeing how many believe Talos was not as honorable as he was said to be. But that was comming from Vivec, Talos was trying to conquer his land, I am sure they wouldn't talk nicely about Talos there.