User blog comment:IceFireWarden0/Elder Scrolls VI- An Analysis/@comment-173.16.101.229-20130610021705

I'm thinking they could still have shouts even if the protagonist isn't a Dragonborn. They can have it all over Tamriel with the next gen consoles. So you could go to Skyrim and go to the grey beards and learn shouts. Or have the dragon born still alive(vampirism/some other form of immortality) and he can teach you.