Using his power, he managed to build up an army of enthralled disciples. In life, Hevnoraak was a powerful dragon priest who practiced a form of mind-controlling magic. Often they are accompanied by an array of undead underlings, such as draugr and skeletons.Ĭoncept art for the Dragon Priest. These priests can be encountered at any level, and are typically found within Nordic tombs and ruins that house Word Walls. There are eight high ranking priests, each wearing a unique dragon priest mask that bears a powerful enchantment said to be bestowed them directly from their dragon benefactors.
They are typically buried in one of the many ancient tombs and temples dotted all across Skyrim, awaiting the return of Alduin the "World-Eater." In their service, many of these dragon priests were granted extraordinary powers and knowledge in arcana, and some of them managed to reach lichdom to evade their own demise. Thousands of years ago, these priests ruled over Skyrim at the behest of their Dragon overlords. but something has awakened them from their ancient slumber." ― Loading Screens ĭragon Priests ( Dragon Language: Dovah-Sonaak, "Dragon-Priest(s)") are powerful undead enemies found in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These dragon priests are long since dead. The first spoken line in Origins sums it up: "the Chantry teaches us that is it the hubris of men that brought the Darkspawn into our world."In days of old, when dragons ruled the earth, there lived mortal men who worshipped the beasts as gods. The Darkspawn may only be motivated by hunger and bloodshed, but their origins can be traced to far more human flaws like ambition and greed. Alduin may have eventually wanted to eat all of Nirn, but that doesn't stop some humans taking advantage and serving him to become the ruling class of Skyrim. These totally inhuman threats with totally inhuman motivations don't just need mortal agents, the stories themselves need mortals who were complicit in their evil in order to ground their fantasy in some semblance of reality. The dragons of Skyrim want to dominate the world, but Alduin also wants to destroy it completely to fulfill his role as the World Eater. The Darkspawn are compelled to wash over Thedas, killing and corrupting everything in their path. The greater threats of both Skyrim and Dragon Age are borderline incomprehensible in their goals.
Even though Dragon Age and Skyrim have very different storytelling styles, the answer may lie in the role the cults play in each world's story.
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