Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24135617-20131105231826/@comment-12277465-20140329025149

As far as I can tell based on my limited knowledge (pardon me Zippertrain. Lot has happened since I last posted), C0DA seems to be...sort-of canon. Like, it's canon, but it's only a possible future, not necessarily what actually happens. But the whole thing confuses me, and I'm not familiar with the intricacies of TES lore, at all. So.

So...it seems like the relation of Akatosh to Alduin to dragons is basically that Akatosh is the main shard, and then Alduin is a large piece, and the dragons are just little fragments. And also all the other stuff. The thing to keep in mind is that Bethesda seems to love being pluralistic, mythology-wise. So all of this is probably true, even the lies.

[especiallythelies]

I'm taking "first-born of Akatosh" to mean that Alduin is either the largest shard, or the first one to have broken off. Or been created. It's not exactly clear. But basically, what I'm fairly certain we can be sure of is this:

Dragons are Aedric in nature.

The Thalmor, at least, think that the mer are Aedric in nature, being former gods who were cast down to mortal status when Lorkhan created Mundus.

So there's probably some connection there.

Now, as for the Dawn Era stuff, as far as I can tell, the Thalmor want to destroy Mundus because it would return them to their supposed original status as gods, or the equivalent.