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Anonymous
June 4, 2020

Words of Power

Just noticed something in Paarthunax's Dialogue to the player he states that all dragon names consist of 3 words of power.

Wouldn't that mean a good portion of the words based off of dragon names can also be considered words of power in their Etymology?

For example Alduin which consists of Al Du In are ALL words of power and Al is used in the Al Gron Nok shout in ESO, Zii Los Dii Du is debatable as a shout but it does use Du as a word of power, and In would be too now.

I know the site owner doesn't come around to update the definitions anymore, but if he ever does it might be worth updating.

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Kahvozein
June 5, 2020 		This question would be more suitable for the forum, the question board should only be used to ask direct and simple questions (like a translation or a problem on the site).

Anyway, in my opinion every word in Dovahzul can be a Word of Power as they all possess magic properties. The fact that every Word of Power is monosyllabic is probably just an aesthetic constraint for the game. If every word's meaning can have magic effects and be used as a Word of power in a shout, we can't just precise it for every entry in the dictionary.

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