MurrayBfromCanada Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Normally I go adventuring using a character with good alignment. This is a habit formed over many years and is something not easily changed. In several RPGs the ability to "devour" a soul is a power of very high level evil demons. Alduin the dragon seems to have this evil demonic power and consumes the souls of fallen heroes for breakfast. This seems pretty clear. What confuses me is the true nature of the Dovahkiin. There are many references in the simulation to "absorbing" a dragon's soul without being too specific about what this really means. Then, at one point, the main character converses with one of the Blades: The player says, "Why are you looking for a Dragonborn?"Delphine responds, "You're the only one that can kill a dragon permanently by devouring its soul." Whoa! Is Delphine correct that the Dovahkiin "devours" dragon souls the same way that Alduin "devours" the souls of heroes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanLoL Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Absorbing dragon souls feeds Dovahkiin's power. So it's possible that Dovahkiin shares the same gift as Alduin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eltucu Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 More or less yes. Although in the gameplay side of things, you dont absorb raw power but you kinda can get more in touch with your dragon side if you absorb dragon souls, they help you learn their shouts. Your character has pretty much the same power as he/she had before. Alduin can get as powerful as there are living beings on Nirn ready to eat. Seems that as a (sort of) mortal you can do only so much devouring Dragon souls. I mean, they're dragons, very powerful creatures every and each one of them. If the player could absorb their raw power, by the end of the main quest he could go back in time, slap Vivec, Sotha Sil and Almalexia in the 1rst era, and return just for teh lulz. I mean, he would be a god killing machine (heh sounds familiar) having absorbed the power of countless of immortal souls. But yeah, the Dovahkiin situations is more of a "its either dragons or us" thing cuz you're preventing Alduin ending the existence of the ppl of Nirn by ending the existence of his kin : / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmspartan Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Ya kind of felt bad for Mirmulnir when you kill him and he yells out "No! Dovahkhiin!" Devouring just seems like an inherently evil trait. I can't see a good use of the term devour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yota71 Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) Think in this way if you don't kill the dragon the dragon will kill you, maybe its not a the paladin way (in the elder scrolls game in general there were no space for pure good) its a matter of surviving Edited February 22, 2012 by yota71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordanLoL Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 It's kill or be killed. The dragons aren't exactly playing nice with the inhabitants of Skyrim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MurrayBfromCanada Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 ...Absorbing dragon souls feeds Dovahkiin's power. So it's possible that Dovahkiin shares the same gift as Alduin...Absorbing does not have the same meaning as devouring. An absorbed soul might be released at some point but a devoured one would be gone forever. This "gift" seems demonic to me. ...preventing Alduin ending the existence of the ppl of Nirn by ending the existence of his kin...Alduin devours the immortal souls of heroes and our "hero" devours the immortal souls of dragons. Interesting. ...Devouring just seems like an inherently evil trait. I can't see a good use of the term devour...In most RPGs soul devouring is a high level demonic ability and is not something any character of good or neutral alignment should be doing. ...maybe its not a the paladin way (in the elder scrolls game in general there were no space for pure good)...In ESIII my main character was not a Paladin but murdered no one, stole nothing, and never trapped a soul. In addition he joined no factions, not even the Blades, and yet managed to finish the main quest with 40 reputation. Morrowind without the expansions was probably the least linear CRPG I have ever experienced. It was similar with ESIV except the character auto-joined all sorts of factions but still did not murder, steal, or trap souls. Oblivion was gorgeous but far more linear than the original Morrowind. It had multiple parallel quest lines and within a group it was very linear just like the ESIII expansions and most other CRPGs. In ESV it does not seem that there is much to do for good aligned characters. Most quests seem to involve stealing, murdering, or devouring immortal souls? One wonders if the developers are aware of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62firelight Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 In ESV it does not seem that there is much to do for good aligned characters. Most quests seem to involve stealing, murdering, or devouring immortal souls? One wonders if the developers are aware of this. Wait, I've never noticed that in Skyrim. Yeah, I wonder if Beth is aware of this, my character was destined to be a good/neutral alignment and it worked out. When you kill a dragon, it burns and either you absorb/devour the soul. Plus up on the text when you absorb/devour the soul it says "Dragon Soul Absorbed" so it may just be Delphine making another dumb statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesapien Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 It's all confusing to me. Mortals have immortal souls. Immortals have mortal souls. It all depends on who eats you when. But eating a dragon doesn't sound so evil, unless you're a dragon, which may be the case here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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