Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-13446185-20130727042242/@comment-10207438-20130727061638

Aldurljon wrote: Isn't dragon blood bestowed at birth? Except St Allesia, everyone else was born Dragonborn. Can we assume that Miraak was as well? there's no real proof that anyone was born with the dragonblood except the descendants of Tiber Septim, The Last Dragonborn could have been granted his Dragonblood/soul just before the game started; Reman was not known to be an actual dragonborn until Skyrim, so he too could have been granted dragonblood to stop the akaviri invasion; and Talos may have been given the dragonblood just before the battle of sancre tor, in which he first used his shout and reclaimed the amulet of kings. It is quite possible that TRUE dragonborns are never really born, but instead selected.