Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24135617-20131105231826/@comment-12277465-20140327074031

Ooh, I actually...I really like this idea. And actually...this could explain a lot, in a meta sense.

See, as far as I can tell, Arena-Oblivion had to do with Mehrunes Dagon as the major villain. Skyrim, of course, introduces the Thalmor, and I assume the next few games will be about defeating them. Except that the main villains of the game itself...are the dragons? What? What does that have to do with the Thalmor? I mean, in Arena, Dagon was backing Jagar, right? But the dragons have very little to do with the 3AD, so it's like some sort of reverse Giant Space Flea From Nowhere situation.

But if the dragons are basically what the Thalmor think the mer are, this starts to make a little more sense.

Also, about dragon reproduction, or lack thereof. I still think that they replenish themselves somehow. I mean, there haven't been that many Dragonborn over the eras, but if some of them are permadead, and they can't reproduce, that means that the entire species is lessened permanently. Which is...unsettling. And it seems like Akatosh could always just splinter himself some more or whatever it even is he does. Or maybe he can't. I don't really know. But if they absolutely can't reproduce, then the LDB really needs to stop soulsnacking. We're going to drive them extinct!