Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-85.74.137.231-20130605091958/@comment-8248675-20130610204751

That what I always though! Technically there were living Dragons in existance during those times, but it was kept secret and no one knew about them. Or in case of Nafaliargus, his body was killed by Cyrus, but he was brough back by Alduin. More then likely Nafaliargus' killing was the last recorded Dragon killing. I am not sure when exactly Numinex existed as a pet of King Olaf, but circustences of his death is unknown. All points to the fact that he died in captivity, but that would contraverse the fact that Dragons are immortal and cannot die of natural causes. I belive some suggest that he died of madness, but there might have been someone else involved in his death. In anycase, if there were some Dragons in existence during Third Empire, they had no quorels with Dragonborn Emprors. So again, if Dragonborn Emperors could shout and absorb Dragon souls like normal Dragonborns, they had no need to. I doubt that any of them, safe for Tiber Septim himself actually knew of any Dragons still in existance. Tiber Septim vowed to protect Parthurnax and few other Dragons, and appearantly only his bodyguards, the blades ever knew of the existance of those Dragons. The blades carried on Akaviri tradition of Dragon Crusade, but do they even know, after so much years why Akaviri even lead that crusade? However that's the story for another time and another topic. Oh yeah, and I also just though of another thing, my theory of one single Dragonborn that gets reborn over time, can easily be disproven even if we assume that Emperors were not shouting, soul absorbing Dragonborns. I would make abosolutely no sense for Mirak to be existing together with "Last Dragonborn", if a Dragonborn would be a reincarnation of past Dragonborns. If that was true, there couldn't have been any Dragonborns after Mirak, if he was still existing in any shape or form.