Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-11276487-20130728170148/@comment-10207438-20131126213006

Dovahsebrom wrote: Sajutsu wrote: Dovahsebrom wrote: I'd say the biggest flaw of the Nords is that very few of them use thu'um. All Nords have an inborn talent to use the Thu'um but for some reason most of them value an axe over the power to shout down walls. Dosent it take years though? and the way to learn it is soley taught by Greybeards? perhaps thats why Dosent it take years though?

Of course. That shouldn't stop them from learning it.

and the way to learn it is soley taught by Greybeards?

How do you think people used to learn the Thu'um before there were Greybeards? If all Nords practiced the Thu'um then there wouldn't even necesarily be a need to learn from the Greybeards. I'm pretty sure he means the only people who remember how to learn the thu'um are the greybeards.

back before the greybeards it was somewhat common among every nord army, but then the greybeards came and the rest of the tounges either submitted to them or failed to outshout them.