Dragon Breaks
Time becomes a serpent eating its own tail during these chaotic rifts.
A Dragon Break is a rare metaphysical event where the linear flow of time shatters, allowing past, present, and future to coexist in a chaotic superposition. During these epochs, contradictory truths become simultaneously real, and the mortal perception of cause and effect dissolves. The concept is tied to the nature of dragons, who perceive time as a static circle rather than a forward march.
- Nature:
- Temporal Anomaly
- Perception:
- Non-Linear Chronology
- Notable Event:
- The Warp in the West
- Mitigation:
- Psijic Order Intervention
- Conceptual Basis:
- Dragon Time vs. Mortal Time
- Historical Record:
- Fragmented and Contradictory
Lore & Background
However, it describes dragons as creatures that are generated randomly in the world and engage in combat with NPCs, creatures, and the player. The player character can absorb dragon souls to unlock words for dragon shouts, which are learned from word walls in dungeons or wilderness. Each shout contains three words in the dragon language, and the strength of the shout varies based on how many words are spoken. A regeneration period limits the player's use of shouts in gameplay.
In Their Own Story
The source does not contain a narrative about a Dragon Break. It focuses on the main story of Skyrim, where the player character, the Last Dragonborn, seeks to defeat Alduin the World-Eater, a dragon prophesied to destroy the world. The game is set 201 years after the events of Oblivion and takes place in Skyrim, the northernmost province of Tamriel. The player completes quests and develops the character by improving skills, and can ignore or postpone the main storyline indefinitely. No specific story about a Dragon Break is provided.
Reader's Guide
It describes the gameplay of Skyrim, including the ability to dual-wield weapons, shields, and magic, and the use of dragon shouts. Players can explore an open world environment, engage in combat, and join factions like the Dark Brotherhood. The game includes three downloadable content add-ons: Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn, which were bundled into the Legendary Edition. A remastered version, Special Edition, was released in October 2016, and an Anniversary Edition in 2021–22. For information on Dragon Breaks, the source is insufficient.
Did You Know?
- Skyrim is the first entry in The Elder Scrolls to include dragons in the game's wilderness, although dragons are frequently referenced in several of the other games.
- The player character can absorb the souls of dragons to use powerful spells called 'dragon shouts' or 'Thu'um'.
- Each dragon shout contains three words in the language spoken by dragons, and the strength of the shout varies depending on how many words have been spoken.
- Some words to shouts can be learned by visiting 'word walls' in dungeons or around the wilderness.
- A regeneration period limits the player's use of shouts in gameplay.
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