Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-49.144.138.168-20130609045329/@comment-10056803-20131020033405

-Gladiatus- wrote: Pickleseller wrote: -Gladiatus- wrote: 108.64.128.25 wrote: "Got me thinking... Maybe I'm the Dragonborn! And I just don't know it yet!" he said that right after i absorbed a dragon soul! They say that to me even after I've slain Alduin and Miraak and even Nahagliiv in fron of their eyes! Impossible. You kill Alduin in Sovngarde and Miraak in Apocrypha.

No, it's possible. I didn't mean that I slain Alduin and Miraak in front of some guard's eyes. I meant that I slayed Nahagliiv in front of Rorikstead's Guard.. Killing Miraak in Apocrypha and Alduin in Sovngarde doesn't put a damper on the guards knowing about it. They clearly know about more obscure things since word of mouth spreads at lightning speed even from places that you're not exactly inclined to tell people about. For example, I could have trained my sneak skill by trolling the Greybeards and my pickpocket by robbing everyone in Markarth dry without anyone noticing, but for some reason guards in Hjaalmarch will still call me a sneak-thief despite the fact I was never caught. Plus, they clearly recognize you as Dovahkiin, yet they still think they might be one. Delphine and Esbern are literally the only people in Skyrim capable of keeping their traps shut about the "LAST" dragonborn business, and only when the player isn't looking at them. Apparently the bit about the Greybeards musing about you not being alone was not missed, though. Must be greybeard amplificative effect.

And apparently absorbing dragonsouls is not very visible (and reading wordwalls even less so), since the only time absorbing a dragonsoul is relevant is when you're being surrounded by guards and Irileth as they watch you absorb Mirmulnir, and even then it's not exactly clear that the guards are seeing what you're seeing.