Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-26140153-20150223233143/@comment-107.178.35.232-20150225221214

It is in the nature of the Dov to dominate as it is in the nature of Aka to insist that he exists, in spite of Lorkhan's insistence that he doesn't: he screams "I AM". Jills do not have this urge likely because they are more closely associated with Akatosh, who is a hybrid comprising Lorkhanic concepts transplanted into the Time Dragon by the Marukhati Selectives. Further on Jills, they do not typically manifest on Nirn: their purpose is to repair breaks in the neat linearity of time. All Dragons are, however, Aedric spirits: they are shards of Aka Time Dragon, who has fractured, split, and effectively gone insane: this is seen very clearly in his aspects, who actively conspire against each other. Do not mistake Aedra as "good" and Daedra as "evil": by definition, the only difference between them is the role they played in creation.

Further notes:

Dragons did not originate anywhere: keep in mind that no book in the games is truly accurate, by virtue of the unreliable narrator. Many are blatantly false or ill informed, others are colored by bias, etc. As Aka is the Time Dragon, when he shattered it was retroactive: from our perspective we can see that Akatosh only came to be after the Dance on the Towers, but once he came into being he always was. He rewrote his own history such that he both always existed, and was always head aspect of the Time Pantheon, if you will. Thus Alduin refers to himself as Firstborn of Akatosh, in spite of (as we outside observers are aware) having existed before him. This too applies to Dragons, who are simply smaller shards of the Aka-Tusk. They always were, and always will be. While Atmora was and is another continent (albeit one now that only exists in memory), Akavir isn't quite so simple. Just as Yokuda was a point of intersect between a past Kalpa and this one, Akavir is where this world intersects with the next. Dragons were there (or is it will be?) as Dragons are both timeless and trans-Kalpic, and have always existed everywhere.

Mind you this delves a bit deep into Elder Scrolls metaphysics, but Dragons and Akavir are much more complex than they are at face value.