Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-176.70.148.40-20140106201915/@comment-25047024-20140107153516

Timeoin wrote: 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. Well, Dragons are immortal. They can't be killed unless their soul is absorbed by a Dragonborn, so they don't need to reproduce. We also never see female dragons in Skyrim.

If Dragonish would really be the language the Dragons in Skyrim speak, then the Agent would be able to use the Thu'um. Also:

"There are no known examples of dragon eggs or dragonlings. The Iliac Bay area has stories of such things, but so far all have proven false. The eggs turned out to be eggs of other reptiles. The small dragons were merely oversized lizards and no relation to true dragons."

Akatosh most likely views Dragons as "babies" because all Dragons and the current Time Gods are shards of the original Time God. Akatosh, Auriel, Alduin, etc, are all just the "bigger" shards. The Dragons are small shards.