Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-97.81.240.58-20130603234626/@comment-11444045-20141031215341

ShawnHowellsCP wrote:

StealthBlade98 wrote:

Dovahsebrom wrote: Nelthro wrote: Kyne"Kyne is the Nordic goddess of the Storm. Also known as Kynareth"

This page seems to disagree with you.

As for Alduin, so as long as we find the god we can kill them? Taking the word of wiki-pages isn't necessarily a good thing to do. All aspects of gods are seperate deitys.

Unless you really want to believe that the Nordic idea of Lorkhan (Shor) and Akatosh (Alduin) is the only correct one.

Alduin is a god, and yes gods can die, though whether or not Alduin is literally dead, we don't know. I disagree with Alduin being a god, a god doesn't die. That's literally a ridiculous statement if you think about it. How can a god die? He's divine and is protected by powers of immortality. Alduin's powers are that OF a god but not A god. There's a difference.

If we were to compare Alduin i'd say he's close to Heracles where he was a son of a god. Alduin is the son of Akatosh a god. So one could argue he's not a true god but mimic's the powers of one very well. Wrong. Alduin is indeed a god, and is the destroyer of each Kalpa. In fact, he killed every god endless times to reset said Kalpa (except maybe Talos, as he may be new to this Kalpa). There are MUCH more gods than Deadra and The Devines. Mannimarco, Dagoth Ur, Alduin, Tsun (according to Nordic mythos), and I could go on. Alduin is indeed a god, and the 2nd strongest being in the entire series, seconded only by Numiduim. He's not a god, he just has powers of a god. Lets play another example game: Kratos in God of War Series his powers were that of a god with the help of Athena that he destroyed Zeus and the other Olympians but that didn't kratos a god.

Considering the lore states the last dragon born will come out and defeat(kill) Alduin that it's safe to say he's dead and he won't be returning at all. Alduin soul could have been absorbed  by the dragonborn too since he's also a dragon he's not some special case where he can go against the very lore that is created not to mention game.

A God doesn't die because they have powers of immortality but yet alduin does die as it's been written in the lore of the dragon scroll that a dragonborn will come about and kill the destroyer of worlds. It's fun to speculate he's not dead but this is reality and he's gone. It was destined by fate and Akatosh allowed this since it was him that created the dragonborn on the fourth era and the last one.