Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-82.37.42.60-20150801112513/@comment-28690383-20160608152707

Sapphire Blue wrote: I see people saying Uriel does not have the abilities of the Dragonborn because he can't shout. I would just like to clarify that in order to shout, you need to know the words of power. I mean, Skyrim's Dragonborn got their FUS shout from Bleak Falls Barrow, which becomes available to use after absorbing the soul of that first dragon they kill at the Whiterun Watchtower. So maybe Uriel does have the power, just lacks the means to use it? But than again, I do like the argument that all the descendants of the Spetim bloodline only possess the blood of a dragon, because you cannot pass on the soul, so they don't have the certain abilities the full Dragonborns have. Its a cool idea, but werent the dragonsouls of the emperors contained within the Amulet of Kings? There must've been at least a few emperors who were dragonborn right? Only Akatosh knows who exactly, but I always interpreted the whole situation as a dragonborn appearing every couple generations or so, with the intermediate individuals in the bloodline only having the dragonblood.