| “ | And the Scrolls have foretold of black wings in the cold, That when brothers wage war come unfurled! Alduin, Bane of Kings, ancient shadow unbound, With a hunger to swallow the world! | „ |
| ~ Song of the Dragonborn |
| “ | Meyz mul, Dovahkiin. You have become strong. But I am Al-du-in, Firstborn of Akatosh! Mulaagi zok lot! I cannot be slain here, by you or anyone else! You cannot prevail against me. I will outlast you... mortal! | „ |
| ~ Alduin to the Dovahkiin |
Background
Alduin, also known as World-Eater and Twilight God, is an immensely powerful black Dragon. He is depicted as a malevolent force who destroys the world periodically, and the Nords believe that his reappearance heralds the end of time. He is the firstborn of Akatosh, as well as his mirror-brother. His function is to eat the whole of Mundus in order to begin a new one, which is considered the creation of a new Kalpa. However, during the events of Skyrim, Alduin strayed far from the righteous path of the Kalpic cycle in favor of conquering Mundus.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 1-A, possibly High 1-A
Dimensionality: Inapplicable
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Beyond-Dimensional Existence, Flight, Immortality (Types 1, 3, 4, 5 & possibly 8. Dragons are eternal and immortal. Gods can choose to resurrect at will from the timeless divine world. Gods are immortal and exist beyond the concept of death, as it only came to be during Mundus' creation, which gods predate. Dragons exist even before the inception of sequential Time in the Dawn Era. Alduin is implied to have immortality reliant on Aka himself), Regeneration (High-Godly. Gods can return after being destroyed across all of time simultaneously, and after being destroyed by Vivec after he tapped into CHIM), Abstract Existence (Gods are stated to be Manifest Metaphors and ideologies, existing as ideas), Empowerment (Gods are empowered by worship), Acausality (Type 5. Dragons are never born. They simply always were, and are. They are eternal, immortal, unchanging, unyielding. Dragons are not born or hatched. They do not mate or breed. They exist even before the inception of sequential Time in the Dawn Era, and as such have no concept of origination. As a god, Alduin is beyond causality, duration, consequence, and eventuality. Resides in a state outside of time where all events happen simultaneously from his perspective), Reality Warping, Sound Manipulation & Information Manipulation (The whole of Aurbis is a song, which the Thu'um is capable of manipulating by performing words of power. There is no distinction between debating and combat to a dragon. Divine beings can control and influence the underlying tones which compose the fundamental layer of all reality as the Song of Creation, shaping reality by means of altering archetypes and myths. For Dragons, language and power are intimately linked. They don’t just breathe fire. They speak fire, willing it into existence. The Thu'um can reshape the world), Space-Time Manipulation (Tonal Architecture, such as the Thu'um, can manipulate time and space), Law Manipulation (Beings at his level can make the Earthbones which define the laws of Mundus tremble), Power Bestowal (Dragons can grant a small portion of their power to dragon priests), Age Manipulation (Alduin can "eat" away the age of his victims, and that his ghost once ate the entire Nord population down to age six after being summoned by Orkey), Invulnerability (Alduin cannot be slain like a conventional dragon, requiring the Dragonrend Shout to force him into mortality and vulnerability), Non-Physical Interaction, Soul Manipulation (Capable of devouring the souls of the dead in Sovngarde), Empowerment (Becomes stronger as he eats more souls), Size Manipulation (Can increase his size as he eats souls), Summoning (Can summon a meteor storm with Dragon Storm Call), Resurrection (Can resurrect dead dragons), Void Manipulation (What Alduin eats ceases to exist), Animal Manipulation (Animal Allegiance is a dragon shout that causes nearby animals to fight for the user), Clairvoyance (Aura Whisper is a dragon shout that reveals nearby mobile entities), Non-Corporeal (Become Ethereal is a dragon shout that turns the user into an ethereal form), Mind Manipulation (Bend Will is a shout that manipulates the minds of animals, humans, and dragons), Weather Manipulation (Clear Skies is a dragon shout that clears weather effects. Storm Callsummons a storm of thunder and lightning), Air Manipulation (Cyclone is a shout that fires out a small cyclone that throws enemies, even large enemies like giants, into the air), Fear Manipulation (Dismay is a dragon shout that causes enemies to flee from the user), Life Absorption (Drain Vitality is a shout that drains stamina, magicka, and health from an enemy), Breath Attack (Via Fire Breath and Frost Breath), Ice Manipulation (Ice Form is a shout that freezes an enemy solid), Empathic Manipulation (Kyne's Peace soothes wild beasts, removing their desire to fight or flee), Statistics Reduction (Marked for Death weakens an enemy's health and armor), Time Manipulation (Can slow down time with the Slow Time shout), Deconstruction (Unrelenting Force can disintegrate enemies)
Resistance to Soul Manipulation (The Dovahkiin could not absorb his soul after slaying him), Mind Manipulation (He is immune to the Bend Will shout), Plot Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Mathematics Manipulation, Logic Manipulation (Dragons could normally exist in the Dawn Era, which returns Mundus to its original state devoid of narratives and the concepts the Aedra set in motion, including Julianos's math/logic and Arkay's life and death cycle)
Attack Potency: Ascendent level, possibly High Ascendent level (Capable of defeating a Daedric Prince in combat, such as Mehrunes Dagon, who is born from the platonic chaotic creatia of Oblivion that exists beyond Mundus, and can harvest said creatia to create his own realm. Alduin is the nordic counterpart and mirror-brother of Akatosh, whose divine power repaired the barriers between Mundus and Oblivion, and is the very concept of Time that permeates the entirety of the Aurbis. As Akatosh upholds the Time and exactness in the Multiverse of Mundus, Alduin's function is to actively end it and return Mundus to the Dawn Era)
Speed: Irrelevant
Lifting Strength: Irrelevant
Durability: Ascendent level, possibly High Ascendent level
Stamina: Infinite
Range: Ascendental, possibly High Ascendental
Standard Equipment: None notable
Intelligence: He was the leader of the Dragon Cult, and has complete mastery of the Thu'um.
Weaknesses: None notable.
Others
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