It would be a copy and paste for the player, Skyrim includes a ton of small random details, I have been watching a series on it. I imagine the final boss of the dlc would have more effort put into it then literally a random guy in a cave in a fall off section of the map and those random encounters get a ton of small details, even down to different race dialogue for some random goobers. Especially since Miraak specifically has an encounter of stealing souls from you.
yeah there are a lot of small details here and there and then there are massive inconsistencies such as the dragonborn being affected by the poison from karlya despite being a vampire which gives us an in lore 100% poison resist making that part of the theif guild quest nonsensical
or how about the dark brotherhood base burning down being capable of killing the dragonborn per night mothers statements? despite us casually surviving dragon flames that can run entire towns to ash?
or how about the dragonborn being knocked out by the ceiling falling on him in the vyrthur fight despite a far weaker dragon born literally taking on the full brunt of the grey beards voices which can shake the whole damned world?
9-B late game dragonborn when?
Need to point out to vile, easily the weakest prince, was so weak he was literally stuck in a cave as a dying avatar, said he was still stronger than you. Will continue to point that out because how could you possibly gloss over that when it lines up with mora one hit quitting Miraak, sheogorath and Merida being able to do whatever they want with you, Azura saying she has full control over you, Bal trapping you in a house, and every other daedric prince referring to you like a normal mortal in comparisons to their godhood.
Could the Dragonborn be high 1-B, maybe, anything Daedric prince related, absolutely not. Like I would argue it for alduin, but it would be an outlier for anyone else to scale to him if that’s the case.
the whole game is hella inconsistent when it comes to details and scaling due to the total freedom it lends you, you can be at the peak of you power to the point where you can take down beings that can level entire universes with casual ease to then be taken down by some random shmuck through a basic trap arguing about dragonborn being flat out inferior to princes because of quests that can be taken at any point in the story is pointless, because if we go by that logic literally everyone would be like 8-C at most due to end game dragonborn being taken down by feats on that level in a couple of missions and the exact opposite can be used to scale dragonborn to insane heights that he clearly doesn't reach like having dragonborn fresh from helgen take down a dragon and go on to do the quest with clavicus where he flat out says that we are nearly as strong as his current weaken self who should be at least 33% his full strength (take away barbas who is at least half of his power and then the umbra incident which took a chunk of his strength) which would mean that end game dragonborn would be hundreds to thousands of times stronger than the weakest prince which is an insane approach, by end game dragonborn should be somewhat stronger than full Vile but not by some insane extent at most he'd be 4 times as strong as him after the miraak fight.
and same goes for the whole mora situation as we see mora is capable of trapping Ithelia and the moment she was released she was capable of running mora's pockets for everything he had and miraak actively gaining enough power to forcefully break free from mora through our soul means quite a bit and to make it clear it doesn't mean "oh dragonborn is stronger than any prince ect. ect." but more so that the combined power of the two dragonborn is enough to challange mora even if he is more powerful than them
Mora literally one shot him.
yes after we beat him to near death.
While saying he’s doing it, saying he sucks in all regards four times over, while he turns to dust. I think that’s the clearest cut I have ever seen for a character not scaling ever.
he talked smack to a dying character that we have just bested and yeah mora is stronger than him, cuse again I am not arguing the whole "alduin>all princes" but more so that the dragonborn past the miraak fight should scale just below top tier princes like mora and be about equal to mid tier princes.
Alduin also has the soul effect happen instantly, and Shor can one hit you for another anti feat.
we don't absorb alduin's soul he is a special case and both you and I know that and Shor is currently Talos, so yeah he'd one shot the dragonborn like hell current Talos should by all means dwarf anyone not named nocturnal in terms of pure power, we are talking a lorkhan (who is already waaay more powerful than most princes by himself) fused with aspects of akatosh through a dragon born (tiber septim) who has also achieved CHIM, if he couldn't one shot the dragonborn then the whole dragonborn>> all princes would have a lot more backing (although you can actually survive the whole lighting thing in gameplay, but that's gameplay and I ain't counting that)
