[SSE] The Dragon Quantity Problem

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As some who have been around from the early days of Skyrim may remember, the original plan was for dragons to be written out of the script after the death of Alduin. As I understand it, a public pressure campaign forced Bethesda to abandon that plan. On-going dragons would have been among the first and most popular mods anyway.

 

If your character kills enough dragons to unlock all shouts (27 X 3) - 2 (UF) - 1 (WWS) - 3 (CS) - 1 (BW) = 81- 7 , they will have killed ~75 dragons (with Alduin and maybe Parthanax).

 

If you are playing the mod Deadly Dragons (highly recommended), you character may have killed well into 3 figures of dragons, and it is at this point that an honest player may think "where do all these dragons come from?"

 

I'd appreciate any thoughts on a mod that could answer this question, but I'll propose one here: Have you ever seen the 2nd "Aliens" movie where Ripley (as played by Sigourney Weaver) delves into the derelict alien ship only to discover an egg-laying super alien, with the eggs incubating inside the captured colonist and her squad mates? Except for the modern weapons and space colony location, I think this movie story is very adaptable to Skyrim. Perhaps some island in the Sea of Ghosts, or even the Isle of Artaeum, with Ancano and band being refugees from their own doomed order and the now sunk and dragon-controlled island. To meet the claustarphobic feel, it might be useful to have a smaller but even more vicious larval stage dragon, stealthy and deadly within the confines of dark and ruined halls of the Psijics. ElevenLabs.io might even make it feasible for Ancano to make a cameo return.

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Just like there were Oblivion gates all over Nirn in Oblivion, there are Dragon burial sites all over Nirn in Skyrim.

 

Alduin was busy while you were murdering Emperors, robbing citizens and killing animals for money. It just takes some time for them to get to Skyrim.

 

The world's gonna be busy with dragons for a while.