Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-109.92.245.62-20131121212935/@comment-26893431-20151203133131

73.31.167.162 wrote:

Alduin is on a quest to 'catch em all'. One of them is the player's soul. Alduin showed up to get your soul when you got executed, but him showing up caused enough chaos for you to survive. The thalmor didn't cause Alduin to show up, and interestingly the thalmor automatically assume that it has something to do with Ulfric and the civil war, when in fact, Alduin is there because of you. Ulfric being saved was just a coincidence.

Had you NOT been the dragonborn, Alduin wouldn't have shown up and you would have simply lost your head, Ulfric would have been saved from the chopping block by a Thalmor coordinated attack on Helgen, and the Thalmor would then regain control of Ulfric as a Thalmor agent. (He might hate them, but they would have just saved his life, and from then on he could have been much more easily manipulated by a skillful handler.) Wrong, Alduins is there because of Ulfric. Ulfric has started the last part of the events of Alduins Wall, which caused him to return.

The only reason you were Dragonborn is because of Ulfric and the civil war.