Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27038858-20151003072000/@comment-26998063-20160126230854

High King Emeric wrote: Taking his life doesn't mean you permanently killed him?

Also, of course dragons don't have parents. What I meant is that Akatosh created the dragons. He is for that called father of the dragons, with Alduin as his first-born. "You can break my body, but you can't break my soul," is basically what it means to be dragonkind... Unless you're a dragonborn, you cannot kill the dragon's soul, which means you cannot kill the dragon. Does that make sense? It should. Alduin is not dead. He's very much alive, somewhere on Nirn. If he hasn't been resuscitated, he will be by the next era to battle the next Dragonborn, who he may defeat and destroy Nirn.