Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11296535-20130914180002/@comment-92.236.66.158-20140710172513

It's possible that Numinex found a way to kill himself after being trapped for so long i.e. maybe he found a way to break his own neck or something like that. I'ts also found out that there were still other dragons besides Paarthurnax that the blades did not kill, so it's possible one or maybe several of these dragons killed him out of mercy or he died during a failed rescue attempt (though something like that would surely be recorded somwewhere so it's unlikely.) Flipping the note maybe no dragons came to his aid due to the fact he was bested by a human and was an embarresment to dragon kind so killed punishment. Another possibillity is the Thu'um as some shouts can summon creatures to aid (for example call of valor) so he may of summoned another being through his own version of "the way of the voice" and slowly transfered his energy into that being maybe even making a soul like aspect of himself. This would explain why he had forgotton his own name as he had to transfer his mind first then the rest of his body into his aspectul form and gave the apearence of dying of old age but in reality he had freed himself and in another plain waiting to be summoned. However since hehad no one to teach this new shout to he could be stuck there forever but at the same time free from his captivity.