Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.58.163.238-20130703034923/@comment-10207438-20130809171246

91.127.35.83 wrote: Hold up, for a dragon to die permanently The Dragonborn needs to absorb his soul, right? Unless Olaf was Dragonborn (wich I doubt), there is no other way that Numinex could die. Maybe, the Numinex never died and the skull in Dragonsreach is skull of dragon defeated by previous Dragonborn, and perhaps that he couldn´t die they relased him? Think about it like the real name theory, no one could absorb his soul so he could not be turned into skeleton right? So how about that´s compleetely different dragon skull in Dragonsreach. To the real name idea, he was probably not hunted by the Blades, so Numinex might be the Blackreach dragon... Dragons can physically die, but their souls live on forever, until they are brought back by another dragon.