Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27038858-20151003072000/@comment-27095143-20160128100830

Silver4Raven wrote: High King Emeric wrote: Wait1 You said that a dragonborn can kill a dragon. But Dovahkiin can't? Dovahkiin and Last Dragonborn or any Dragonborn are the same person. Dovahkiin is a name given to a character by the dragons that translates to Dragonborn.

Alduin was not sent back in time before. he was sent forward in time. My guess is that he was not sent back or forward in time and his soul is simply at rest for the moment and likely will rise again sometime in the future of the TES timeline.

I know what dragonborn is, I don't know what happened to Alduin. I'll check out a playthrough, anyway.