He was the original ruler over all of mortal kind and was eventually defeated by the first heroes to use the Voice.

Paarthunax loves to speak with mortals, but has deprived himself of this love in order to keep himself secret to the rest of the world.Īlduin has been given many names throughout the ages and myths. The leader of the Greybeards and the first Dragon to teach mortals the Voice, he now meditates on the Throat of the World. There is a dragon named Vuljotnaak which is resurrected by Alduin from the mound between Sleeping Tree Camp and Bloated Man's Grotto.

He will not float and breath fire at the Dragonborn but instead land outside the keep. This is currently the only known dragon in the game that does not fight the Dragonborn in the air.