Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-176.70.148.40-20140106201915/@comment-3076045-20140107152757

AngryEnclaveSoldier wrote: The Dragonlings in Daggerfall aren't dragons. Dragons can't have offspring and are much bigger than the Dragonlings in Daggerfall. According to the UESP, they are totally unrelated to the Dovahs:

"Once believed to be a young form of the mysterious dragons, Dragonlings are actually unrelated, weaker specimens."

Dragonish is also not related to draconic/Dovahtinvok/whatever.

The  reference they are using is There Be Dragons. That is the only reference that makes that claim. Its really just a way of retconning it into the game that they wanted for Skyrim. Remember, we dont really know the truth about what happened originally with the Dragons. It IS possible that they had children, called Dragonlings (or at least one species of them did) and that they have since died out. Akatosh himself acknowledges them as baby Dragons.