Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24.157.36.219-20130408170423/@comment-7153552-20130408171138

You have to remember that all Elder Scroll prophecies of this nature speak in terms of the worst case scenario. If you (the Dragonborn) didn't win then all of time would essentially end because Alduin would eat the world - in whatever metaphorical or real sense that takes on. So we had to stop Alduin from regaining his strength and returning to Nirn from Sovngarde to destroy all the living world. Congrats, you stopped a prohecy, much like you do in Dawnguard. The prophecy there talks about Vampires blotting out the sun and ruling the night. But we stopped it from happening (it could still technically happen, we just stopped Harkon) so the prohpecy did not come true. Elder Scrolls are cool like that, they can change meaning, location, appearance, owners, words, whatever they want. At one point there was a certain number and schollars were trying to count and categorize them. Just when they were getting close the Scrolls all vanished and moved. Some of the one's that have been recovered have changed the words, some aren't even on Nirn (apparently) any more, but they all scattered across Tamriel because they no longer wished to be counted. So it's all mysterious and mystical and you can't accept it all as being so literal, so much as it is meant to be taken as warnings of things that could be and we need to make not be.