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XtremeVoidNinja wrote: plus i keep seeing people comment saying the first dragonborn couldnt beat Alduin.... this is untrue because when he was approached by the 3 nord heros he declined because of personal reasons, he never fought Alduin but from his power and abilities it is fair to say he would have beaten Alduin too. Well he does have the power of the voice. Ulfric trained as a thu'um master for years and only knows one shout, the dragonborn can use dozens of them.

I always figured that the dragonborn's dragonblood makes him physically stronger and better at magic. When you think about it that makes sense since he quickly over takes people in each faction who have much more experience than him like Delvin, Nazir, Vilkas, Tollfdir. He is automatically better than them and that's because he is dragon born.

I also assumed that the dragonborn learns skills faster. All of the skill trainers in Skyrim are people who have basically dedicated their entire lives to their chosen skill (think of the companions, mages and thieves) the best of them are level 90 but the dragonborn can very quickly become that good or even better while also mastering several other diverse skills.

I think there is no way the dragonborn is nothing more than a human. He's far stronger.