Matters Which Are Hidden...

Howdy, all!!

Finally doing C2 here’s our party 🕺🎉

Of course!! Thank you so much btw!! I love exploring this concept.

The Dragonborn is someone who has both the blood and the soul of a dragon. To Taima, this is super distressing, because it’s a signifier that she’s inherently separated from personhood in a way.

She lacks a human, mortal soul, which she finds disturbing. Many in Tamriel (and just many cultures in general) view our souls as encapsulations of our entire beings- learning that your “entire being” is that of a different species whose tyranny you’re fighting to end would be dysphoric for her to say the least.

Additionally, it’s always said that a Dragonborn appears in times of great need to vanquish evil- Taima was a simple hunter and forager before finding out she was Dragonborn. She enjoyed her quiet, rustic life, and suddenly she’s told that she doesn’t have a human soul AND that the world will live and die by her actions.

It makes her question everything- when she’s talking to her friends, Lucien, Kaidan, Inigo, Taliesin, etc, she always has this sinking feeling of “What if we see the world entirely different and I never would have known it because I’m not a ‘real person’”, “Am I a danger to them”, “Am I just pretending to be a person”, etc.