Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-71.180.122.196-20130713222416/@comment-29458028-20140820092725

It's easier to code multiple Alduins than one with stat changes, since each Alduin only needs basic dragon code, but one Alduin would need lots of lines to switch the invincibility on/off, change his AI, fool around the stats. Granted, I wouldn't know, but applying Ockham's razor makes one Alduin less parsimonious than a few.

Although, maybe there's only one and beth likes to take the hard way. There are multiple incarnations of Cicero, Aela, Farkas and a few others in code, so why not do the same for Alduin?