I don't understand how all the nords thought dragons were only legend until they appeared. What? you telling me noone wondered what those big burial sites were for and didn't dig one up. Or am i missing something? where they speically sealed up or something? I mean come on they had a dragon graveyard right in there own back yard lol.

They're simple warrior folk. They prefer clubbing horkers to archeology.

They're not an intelligent people. That, and just very narrow minded and skeptical about most subjects. This is the impression that I get.

I agree I mean come on there are regenerating trolls, spriggans, and other creatures how hard it to imagine dragons were once around. But then again its kinda like how there are still people who deny that dinosaurs came before people just on a larger scale.

They probably stopped wondering, I mean to them it's just a huge pile of dirt. But with Tosh Raka alive, and in dragon form (apparently) I don't know how it was unknown

skyrim is not without archologist. All i have to point at is the guy at Marktha (however you spell it) and had large teams to investigate Dwemer runes. You'd think someone in skyrim would get interested in those big burial mounds and dig it up lol.

Nords are a warrior race. Although there are archaeologists and intellectually inclined Nords, the rest of them don't give a [censored]! They aren't very intelligent and those who are intelligent are intelligent in topics that are so far off from mythology that it doesn't matter anyways.

Besides, considering that some people believe that dinosaurs, the massive ones, are still alive to this day in large numbers, it's not that far off from the fact that there's a dragon in Akavir and there are hundreds of dragon mounds and yet they don't believe it.

Maybe they have and it's just that most Nords don't watch the Skyrim Histoory Channel.

Maybe they emulate our culture and far more watch "Desperate HouseCarls" than more knowledge expanding fare.

This is hindsight talking.

Those burial sites could be part of anything. You`d be surprise how quickly people forget and call something just a `Legend`. We do it real life.

Troy was thought a legend until someone finally figured that those stones really belonged to it a real city of Troy.

The 300 Spartans story was thought just a legend until someone figured out that a stone they found was a tribute to their sacrifice.

ha, so here skyrim has all these myths about dragons, they got that mysteries dragon bridge by Solitude, they have the power of the voice, ect ect ect, and Nords are more than mere nomads clubbing at aminals, they build castles and are very civilized. Also, you have many people trying to get rich by raiding tombs and caves, yet not one person digs up a mound? and if they did they wouldn't show the bones off to every Jarl in the land to try and attrach some coin for being teh first to prove teh existence of dragons? Sure, it was an obvoius brain fart on part of the devs lol. Not that i care cause its not a game breaker. I just find it funny that the devs allowed the mounds to be so obvious.

It would be like us wondering if Aliens really existed but never bothered to investigate any UFO crash sites with dead Alien's bodies rotting in the sun for all to see but none would look...

well you just proved my own point. When there are legends about people natural go out to see if they are true or false. And in these cases they find out the legend was born of something true. However, besides all that, you have these ancient bureal site, someone at some time would have dug it up to see what was down there and then stumble upon the reality of real life dragon bones. I don't think that can be argued.

Superstition and taboo.

"Never go near those mounds, son. They're haunted."

I like it when the guards say "I can handle sprigans, but dragons!? The worlds gone mad".
Sprigans are totally more believable...

I guess the burial mounds are easy to explain away, but what about the dragon walls standing out in the middle of no where?
I mean, I've seen hunters and stormcloaks walk right by them...

theres never been much documentation of dragons for millenia. they're not legendary in the sense that they never existed... just all gone & not much is known of them. i suspect the akaviri purged a lot of history about them.

the falmer also are/were legendary because they are rarely if ever seen by your average person.

edit: also, nords dont really approve of poking around burial sites. its disrespectful, not to mention dangerous.

Maybe a lot of them took an arrow to the head as well as the knee and it affected their ability to reason.

Who knows?

who cares for bones when you just want to worship Talos

if i recall correctly, tiber septim had a dragon friend, and dragons were sacred to the empire before they were wiped out. so its kind of odd i guess.

It's a stupid line written for loading screens. Everyone with the barest hint of an education would know that Tiber Septim (their precious Talos!) conquered Stros M'kai with a dragon on his side.

A lot of the MQ lore is like that.

dragons arte legends in the sense that t-rexes are legendary, everyone knows them, everyone knows they existed and everyone knows they are gone.

No. You`re thinking from a modern point of view. The people who discovered that the legends were true were MODERN, ie from around the 18th and 19th centuries when explorers were beginning to look to science and proof of things rather than believe that gods or magic or witchcraft were the reason for most things and stayed away out of fear of the unknown.

The Skyrim world is based on an ancient world where a belief in magic. gods and superstition prevented a lot of people from making those searching questions or digging stuff up just to find out about something long dead. The Nords also heavily believe in leaving the dead alone and not sticking your nose in something best left alone.

The dragon wars and dragon cults who these sites were constructed by are from the early Merethic era. It's so far back, things from that time might as well be legend to them. It's even earlier than Ysgramor, who was in the late Merethic era - and that's 5000 years before Skyrim takes place.

Well, yeah, except that their number was closer to 3000.

3000 Spartans, or 3000 Greek Soldiers? My understanding is that 3000 is probably a good estimate of the defending force's size (my recollection of history class accounted for 1300 of these), but most of the defenders were not from Sparta (or any major city). Which makes 300 *Spartans* possible. Just not 300 Greek soldiers, who would have had to be really bad dudes to hold off an Army.

That said, this was going on 15 years ago, and I'm not up on my Greek history to the point of knowing the latest discoveries.

I don't think anyone is doubting some existence of dragons... just that they question the whole mythos around them being a reality..and now they have to actually face it. It's one thing to think the stories are kind of plausible, another to worry about dragons burning your town down. Like they're saying.. "Holy crap. This is real, isn't it?"

Also, some people are specifically worried about what they mean. Not what they are. Like Ralof says to Ulfric in the intro at Helgen: "Could the legends be true?!" What he was referring to was the legends of the dragons being associated with the end times.

Well I have to say 300 so that modern day people will understand (from the film) what i`m talking about. The actual numbers and truth of what actually happened is besides the point of the discussion.