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49.149.4.204 wrote: Timeoin wrote: ScholarOfTheScrolls wrote: Dark Jeto wrote: The difference was in the execution though. Dagon assembled a cult and assassinated an Emperor and all but one of his children. This allowed Daedra to cross through to Nirn quite easily. He showed a sense of cunning, planning, and leadership to pull all that off. Alduin's plan was to ressurect all the Dragons and...something. He doesn't go into much detail as to HOW a bunch of ressurect dragons would go about retaking the world, but my problem with it is this: His plan on how to take over a species that had grown stronger, wiser, more independant, and could learn the Thu'um was to return to the exact status quo that got him in that predicament to begin with. And as soon as you defeat him ONCE, a large amount of his followers start abandoning him. Even when Dagon was banished back to Oblivion, the Mythic Dawn was still around for quite a while and had to be routed out. But when you return to High Hrothgar and see all the dragons, they seem pretty cool with you killing their leader. Good points there. Still Dagoth Ur is and always will be my favourite. Yeah. But to be fair, Dagoth Ur was mortal... ish. His morality was twisted over time by the events that happened at the Battle of Red Mountain back in the first era. Untapped power, etc, etc.

Dagon was the Daedric lord of Destruction - so naturally he wanted to destroy stuff.

Alduin seems to just be pissed that Mortals are running the show now. - Basically, an Aldmeri Dominionist with Wings. Actually alduin is the nordic god of destruction soooooo yeah.

Actually no - the Nords see him as a version of Alduin...

Alduin (World Eater): Alduin is the Nordic variation of Akatosh, and only superficially resembles his counterpart in the Nine Divines. For example, Alduin's sobriquet, 'the world eater', comes from myths that depict him as the horrible, ravaging firestorm that destroyed the last world to begin this one. Nords therefore see the god of time as both creator and harbinger of the apocalypse. He is not the chief of the Nordic pantheon (in fact, that pantheon has no chief; see Shor, below) but its wellspring, albeit a grim and frightening one.

(From Varieties of Faith)