User blog comment:Pelinal Whitestrake/About Aka, Lorkhan and broken Windows/@comment-11345660-20140209010228/@comment-11345660-20140210231600

I think there is a very simple explanation as to why Alduin and Akatosh are not related by blood. One theory that I think is more likely and overlooked at the same time. Dragons are very vain creatures, very proud. They want to strike fear into our hearts. Alduin especially. He seeks to exert his dominance over us, and to strike fear into us, he claims he is first born of Akatosh, a propaganda, using the old Nordic depiction of Akatosh as a dragon to his advantage to establish the right to rule. While some theorize that Alduin is simply the destruction aspect of Time, I disagree. While I do think Alduin is an exceptionally powerful individual, I do not think that makes him Aedra, just a powerful dragon. The whole son of Akatosh thing could also be a ruse to fool his bretheren to keep them on his side. Dragons leaving his cause is not unheard of, i.e. Parthuunax, Odhaviin. Just because Alduin is around does not proove the shard theory. That's ridiculous. Like Sherlock Holmes once said Stuhn, 'It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.' We have next to no evidence the shard theory exists, nothing but mere speculation and hints dropped in in-game books that may or may not even be correct.

The fact that they are seperate does not prove that there are seperate entities in different pantheons bades on the same god, such as Auri-El and Akatosh. I think they are one and the same. The Nords understand that Akatosh is whole, with Alduin merely being their god of destruction. Just because others call Akatosh by a different name does not mean it isn't Akatosh, simply their version. Just because they believe in their god a different way does not make it different.

In short, there is no evidence to prove anything yet. It is speculation and theory. I realize you would like to retaliate, but your words would be lost on me unless you have solid proof.