User blog comment:Jack Pistol/Immortal Dovahkiin?/@comment-5051146-20121001013138

Well aren't all souls immortal in the Elder Scrolls? I mean once a person dies they go to wherever they have been bound to, be it Soverenguarde(?spelling?) or if they worship a Daedra they go to that Daedra's plane of oblivion, etc. Dragons are completley immortal as told by Paarthunax. So because the Dovahkiin has a mortal body he acts the same way as any other mortal, the body dies and the soul goes to wherever it goes. However this wouldn't explain why the dragon souls are considered immortal when all souls technically are.

My reasoning comes from the fact Alduin can bring them back from the dead the way they were before.

For example, you cannot resurrect (outside of console *wink wink*) a mortal as they were before. The closest you can get is using magic to make their mortal body serve you, once the body dies it disintegrates as the magic acted as its soul or something like that. BUT, Alduin can resurrect dragons from their burial mounds EXACTLY the way they were before they died.

SOOOO.... perhaps when they say the soul is immortal they mean that even if the mortal body dies then as long as it remains intact then the soul, and hence the person, can be brought back as they continue existing.

This could mean, if my theory is correct, that as long as any dragonborns mortal body remains intact then they can be brought back the way Alduin brings back the dragons. Perhaps this could be a plotline in a future DLC or game? Maybe you could resurrect Tiber Septim/Talos as he once was and he can restore the Empire?

WOW that would be cool.