Spoiler "Even the Daedra Fear Me"

[Algarth Bladeson]

I don't know about you, but when I first fought Alduin, I was wearng Daedric Armor. And during the fight, he uttered the line, "Even the Daedra Fear me." Now thinking about it, the Dragons are lesser Aedra and the Aedra are significantly weaker than the Daedra because they gave up their immortality to create Mundus. So this line, to me, means one of three things:

1) Alduin is bluffing. I mean he already says he is the Firstborn of Akatosh, he is the most powerful of all Dragons, and the harbinger of the end of the world, so naturally he would be cocky.

2) Alduin is only stronger on Mundus. It is known that Daedra are much weaker on Mundus than in Oblivion. I think this have mostly to do with the pact St. Alessia made with the Divines. Dragons are essentially immortals living a mortal life on Nirn. Though they can be physically killed, because their souls are bound to Mundus, they will always return. In short, Daedra are more powerful overall, but Dragons are more powerful on Mundus.

3) Alduin was created before Lorkhan's plan to create Mundus came into effect. This would not only explain how Alduin is able to bring his fallen brothers back from the dead, how he was able to travel to and from Sovngarde so easily.

So which one do you think is the reason. Personally, I think its the second one.

 

[The Honorable Gidian Diva of Sass]

I believe it is the fact that he is prophesied to end the world, AND THEN he gets to hop over to the afterlife and devour the countless souls that just got sent there. Then, he would be nearly invincible.

 

[SauronTheDeceiver]

When Alduin acts as the "proper" World Eater, essentially eating the world instead of conquering it, he's virtually invincible and unstoppable. In fact I'm pretty sure he's already done it before so yeah, the Daedra definitely have enough reason to fear him.

 

[The Honorable Gidian Diva of Sass]

When Alduin acts as the "proper" World Eater, essentially eating the world instead of conquering it, he's virtually invincible and unstoppable. In fact I'm pretty sure he's already done it before so yeah, the Daedra definitely have enough reason to fear him.

The way it works, I wonder if it's similar to Dragon's Dogma where the process keeps resetting at a certain point and looping forever... That'd be unlikely, but cool.