Time; Alduin is the World-Eater which means he's the concept of time ending. Akatosh is the concept of time, Alduin is the concept of linear time, Auri-El is infinite looping time. Welcome to Elder Scrolls your brain is on fire.
Re: completing the main quest
Player: "I like this world. I don't want it to end." Paarthurnax: "Pruzah (Good). As good a reason as any. There are many who feel as you do, although not all. Some would say that all things must end, so that the next can come to pass. Perhaps this world is simply the Egg of the next kalpa*? Lein vokiin (world unborn)? Would you stop the next world from being born?"
*A kalpa is an epoch of time comprised of the birth, life and death of that specific period.
Paarthurnax after learning Dragonrend: "the very bones of the earth are at your disposal"
Paarthurnax after defeating Alduin: "perhaps you begin to see the world as a dovah" fucking validating literally all my rp choices as bronach when paarthurnax just brought up insight into the currents of time that the dragonborn might have now
Player: "Why live alone on a mountain if you love conversation?" Paarthurnax: Extinguish hunger. There are many hungers it is better to deny than to feed. Do not feed. Discipline against the lesser aids in qahnaar… denial of the greater."
Player: "The prophecy says that only the Dragonborn can stop him." Paarthurnax: "True… But qostiid - prophecy - tells what may be, not what should be. Prophecy is a weak guide. Just because you can do a thing, does not always mean you should. Do you have no better reason for acting than destiny? Are you nothing more than a plaything of dez… of fate?"
Player: "I didn't come here to debate philosophy with you." Paarthurnax: "Hahaha! You have much to learn of the dov, then. There is nothing else but philosophy to a dovah. It is no accident that we do battle with our Thu'um, our Voices. There is no distinction between debate and combat to a dragon. Talk is battle. For us it is one and the same."
Player: "What better reason to act than to fulfill my destiny?" Paarthurnax: "If you can see your destiny clearly, your sight is clearer than mine. Dahmaan - remember, Alduin also follows his destiny, as he sees it. But, I bow before your certainty. In a way, I envy you. The curse of much knowledge is often indecision."
Player: "I don't believe in destiny. But I will stop Alduin." Paarthurnax: "And so, perhaps, your destiny will be fulfilled. Who can say? Fate slippery. Even to the dov, who ride the currents of Time, destiny is elusive. Alduin believes that he will prevail, with good reason. He strong. And he is no fool. Not fool, very far from. Far from it. He began as the wisest and most far-seeing of us all. "
Player: "The next world will have to take care of itself." Paarthurnax: "Fair. A fair answer. Balance force… maybe you only balance the forces that work to quicken the end of this world. Even we who ride the currents of Time cannot see past Time's end…The whirlwind/vortex of time is treachorous/turbulent. Those who try to hasten the end, may delay it. Those who work to delay the end, may bring it closer."
Paarthurnax re: the blades wanting to kill him; The Blades are wise not to trust me. Wisdom not trust. I would not trust another dragon. Dragons were created for domination. We were made to dominate. The will to power is in our blood. You feel it in yourself, do you not? I can be trusted. I know this. But they do not. Wisdom is not trusting a dragon. It is always wise to mistrust a dovah. I have overcome my nature only through meditation and long study of the Way of the Voice. No day goes by where I am not tempted to return to my inborn nature. Honour is fighting the lure of power. What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
Player: I was just fulfilling my destiny as Dragonborn Paarthurnax: Indeed, you saw more clearly than I - certainly more clearly than Alduin. Rok funta koraav (he failed to see). Perhaps now you have some insight into the forces that shape the Vennesetiid...the currents of Time. Perhaps you begin to see the world as a dovah.
Dragons & Time
Time;
Alduin is the World-Eater which means he's the concept of time ending. Akatosh is the concept of time, Alduin is the concept of linear time, Auri-El is infinite looping time. Welcome to Elder Scrolls your brain is on fire.
Re: completing the main quest
Player: "I like this world. I don't want it to end."
Paarthurnax: "Pruzah (Good). As good a reason as any. There are many who feel as you do, although not all. Some would say that all things must end, so that the next can come to pass. Perhaps this world is simply the Egg of the next kalpa*? Lein vokiin (world unborn)? Would you stop the next world from being born?"
*A kalpa is an epoch of time comprised of the birth, life and death of that specific period.
Paarthurnax after learning Dragonrend: "the very bones of the earth are at your disposal"
Paarthurnax after defeating Alduin: "perhaps you begin to see the world as a dovah" fucking validating literally all my rp choices as bronach when paarthurnax just brought up insight into the currents of time that the dragonborn might have now
Player: "Why live alone on a mountain if you love conversation?"
Paarthurnax: Extinguish hunger. There are many hungers it is better to deny than to feed. Do not feed. Discipline against the lesser aids in qahnaar… denial of the greater."
Player: "The prophecy says that only the Dragonborn can stop him."
Paarthurnax: "True… But qostiid - prophecy - tells what may be, not what should be. Prophecy is a weak guide. Just because you can do a thing, does not always mean you should. Do you have no better reason for acting than destiny? Are you nothing more than a plaything of dez… of fate?"
Player: "I didn't come here to debate philosophy with you."
Paarthurnax: "Hahaha! You have much to learn of the dov, then. There is nothing else but philosophy to a dovah. It is no accident that we do battle with our Thu'um, our Voices. There is no distinction between debate and combat to a dragon. Talk is battle. For us it is one and the same."
Player: "What better reason to act than to fulfill my destiny?"
Paarthurnax: "If you can see your destiny clearly, your sight is clearer than mine. Dahmaan - remember, Alduin also follows his destiny, as he sees it. But, I bow before your certainty. In a way, I envy you. The curse of much knowledge is often indecision."
Player: "I don't believe in destiny. But I will stop Alduin."
Paarthurnax: "And so, perhaps, your destiny will be fulfilled. Who can say? Fate slippery. Even to the dov, who ride the currents of Time, destiny is elusive. Alduin believes that he will prevail, with good reason. He strong. And he is no fool. Not fool, very far from. Far from it. He began as the wisest and most far-seeing of us all. "
Player: "The next world will have to take care of itself."
Paarthurnax: "Fair. A fair answer. Balance force… maybe you only balance the forces that work to quicken the end of this world. Even we who ride the currents of Time cannot see past Time's end…The whirlwind/vortex of time is treachorous/turbulent. Those who try to hasten the end, may delay it. Those who work to delay the end, may bring it closer."
Paarthurnax re: the blades wanting to kill him;
The Blades are wise not to trust me. Wisdom not trust. I would not trust another dragon. Dragons were created for domination. We were made to dominate. The will to power is in our blood. You feel it in yourself, do you not? I can be trusted. I know this. But they do not. Wisdom is not trusting a dragon. It is always wise to mistrust a dovah. I have overcome my nature only through meditation and long study of the Way of the Voice. No day goes by where I am not tempted to return to my inborn nature. Honour is fighting the lure of power. What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
Player: I was just fulfilling my destiny as Dragonborn
Paarthurnax: Indeed, you saw more clearly than I - certainly more clearly than Alduin. Rok funta koraav (he failed to see). Perhaps now you have some insight into the forces that shape the Vennesetiid...the currents of Time. Perhaps you begin to see the world as a dovah.