User blog comment:Tholanar/If you were the High Queen or King of Skyrim..../@comment-80.216.219.47-20121230062352/@comment-5709731-20130104152036

Did you know that the greybeards never forced anybody to give up the voice? After meditating for seven years, Jurgen made the greatest Voice-champions of Skyrim shout at him for days, without him ever shouting back. The tounges were left exhausted and powerless, and agreed themselves to give up the voice. The greybeards never forced anybody to do as they said, it was the nords themselves who saw the wisdom of Jurgen and decided to follow his rules. Understand? Giving up the voice was something the nords CHOSE, they were never ever forced. You cannot blame Jurgen nor the Greybeards, only the nords who listened to his, in your mind, strangehold on the Thu'um. The thu'um was meant to save lives, not take them, and seeing as the dragon war was over, all there was left to do with the Voice was to kill other people.