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Nazul Rostello wrote: Heh... humorous. It's possible Akatosh sent the DB down to settle the Alduin problem because he was too lazy to do it himself The gods are too physically weak, from giving so much of themselves during creation, to appear on Nirn without extraordinary circumstances.

Martin was only able to "summon" Akatosh, although summon is the entirely wrong word, by taking into himself the souls of every single dragonborn emperor who had ever lived.

And that only lasted a couple minutes.