Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-11442700-20130727004623

Th3Antioch wrote: I meant game mechanic as in "To learn the shout, you need to spend a soul". For example, unless it is a shout the greybeards teach (First word of Whirlwind Sprint), you need to spend a soul to learn it, you can't go to the greybeards and say "Hey, I want to meditate for a few weeks and learn some new shouts." Personally I think that mechanioc was for gameplay purposes, a Dragonborn absorbs a dragons soul and knowledge so wouldn't he learn whatever shout that dragon knows?