Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24225299-20140110165516/@comment-24511216-20140208052853

MeadDrinker wrote: but was alessia a TRUE dragonborn ? like the player character on skyrim, or talos, or miraak ? according to the wiki she was "dragonborn" because akatosh touch her with his blood not because any shouting and/or devouring soul prowess.

Alessia could have been a Psudo-Dragonborn. An incomplete rough draft to work out the kinks before Miraak was born.