As shown during ' The Way of the Voice,' they can also absorb knowledge from other individuals who have mastered specific words. The Dragonborn is able to intuitively learn Shouts, using the absorbed Souls of dragons to gain the dragons' understanding of the words.

There are exceptions to this: rare individuals who are known as Dragonborn, exist with the bodies of mortals but the souls of dragons. Mortals are only able to learn and use the Thu'um through a long process of meditation and the practice of the words. However, one or two words of a given Shout may be used, but the effect is correspondingly less powerful compared to the full force of the whole shout.ĭragons are able to master and use their Thu'um at will, as this sacred language is their natural language, inborn into their souls from the moment of their creation (when dragons shout, breathing fire or frost at each other with the Thu'um they are actually having a deadly verbal debate). Shouts use the vocalization of specific 'words of power' to create powerful magical effects, usually for offensive purposes. For lore-based information, see Thu'um.ĭragon Shouts ( ), also referred to as Shouts or Thu'um in the Dragon language, are an ancient form of magic prominently used in Skyrim during the late Merethic and early First Era, but it has gradually become obscured. Unrelenting Force, the most common shout used by characters and enemies (other than dragons) in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

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