Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-2165692-20140425203121/@comment-24902649-20141205172102

See? Big lizard. We haven't really seen Alduin the God yet.

Except for all the shit the students scattered around, and all the noise they made. There's always evidence, is my point.

True, but he's the best one we have, and there's no reason he should be wrong.

The usage of bows is NOT that evidence, because it is an implementation for gameplay reasons. The dwarven ruins that Falmer primarily inhabit are very open, so it would be pretty dumb if they only had melee attacks and the occasional Staff of Thunderbolt on high-level units. They need a semi-weak version of a ranged attack available at early levels in order to be a competitive enemy. Now, Bethesda could have written in a reason for the Falmer having bows that's better than "because they need ranged units", but they didn't, so that's the only logical conclusion.