Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24135617-20131105231826/@comment-4705438-20140327081033

Alduin is the counterpart of Akatosh in a way. Anu-Pandu Theorem. Duality.

Akatosh is time, Alduin is end of it.

I don't think Dragons really served Thalmor purpose. Thalmor dream of a never-ending Dawn Era. If Alduin was to succeed, there would be a new Dawn Era at one point, but Thalmor themselves would be no more. (Unless they found a way to survive the Kalpic cycle, like Hist are believed to have done.)

Dragons were "permadead" untill Alduin somehow (and this is really unexplained) revived them. They were actually driven to extinction long ago.

My personal headcanon is that Alduin actually split parts of himself off to recreate dragons, and that's the reason he was so weak in the fight with the Last Dragonborn.