Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-76.118.67.131-20140922181150/@comment-16669347-20140924144408

Forgot about Ulfric, I usually kill the bastard, but the dragon thing doesn't matter. Only a Dovahkiin can permanantly kill a dragon by absorbing it's soul, but anyone can temporarily kill them. If city guards with bows and swords can do it, fighter jets and drones surely can too. And even if non-nords can learn to shout, the Grebeards only teach Nords. Plus, if the war is in Tamriel's 'present', no one else is trying to learn.

Besides there are limits to the shouts, they can't do everything, and they have a cooldown period. There are probably more guns in the U.S. than there are people in Tamriel. Most of those people cannot shout or use magic. None of those people have anything that would protect them from nukes and biological warfare. Get the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, Canada, and maybe Japan, and Tamriel is fuck- ed.