Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24986094-20140526090540/@comment-16047389-20140529133324

TheHengeProphet wrote: Dark Jeto wrote: Also, Akatosh and Alduin are not the same being. Time and time again in Skyrim, the player is told that Akatosh gave the Dragonborn his blessing for the purpose of defeating Alduin. The Greybeards make this especially apparent when they tell the Dragonborn this. I don't expect the Greybeards have a direct line of communication with Akatosh; how would they know this without it simply being an assumption? I would trust the word of age-old dragons over mortals, despite their hubris, over the matters of gods. Alduin claims to be the firstborn of Akatosh, so even he admits that he is not Akatosh himself. Paarthurnax claims that he is as "Father Akatosh" made him, yet claims Alduin is his brother, not his father. Not a single Dragon anywhere claims that Akatosh and Alduin are the same person.

The Dragons are to Akatosh, as a child is to a father. Though they were not born in the same sense that Man is born, they no less revere Akatosh as a creator, and more importantly an entirely SEPERATE being altogether.