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The record of Audva’s first dragon slaying is so steeped in folklore and exaggeration that it’s difficult to re-assemble what actually may have happened. Stories range from her leaping into the sky and felling it with a single punch to a battle that lasted for hours and cost the lives of a hundred guards, leaving her the only one standing. The only things that are certain are these facts : that she, Irileth, and the Whiterun soldiers made extensive use of bows to eventually ground the beast, that many of the guard died and the watch tower was mostly destroyed, and that the survivors, including Irileth, observed her absorbing the dragon’s soul.

Shortly after the dragon’s death, the Greybeards up on High Hrothgar were heard calling out to her, “Dovahkiin.” Supposedly there were reports of them being heard from as far away as Vvardenfell, but that seems unlikely. When she returned to Dragonsreach and informed the Jarl and his court of what happened, they were all in shock.

“When she left for Bleak Falls,” Master Wizard Farengar Secret-Fire said, “I had a feeling we’d never see her again, and I was almost right. She came back to deliver the dragonstone, and almost immediately the Jarl sent her off to investigate the dragon attack. I remember wanting to go with them, but Balgruuf wouldn’t let me. Audva told him that a mage would be useful, but that his reasoning was sound. There was a moment when I thought Irileth would start an argument about questioning the Jarl, but even she could see there were bigger problems at hand.

“When they returned after slaying the dragon, she was something... else, something more than she was. And when Hrongar and Balgruuf began going on about her being Dragonborn, I could tell she’d changed. That simple savage in exile was now a slayer of dragons who wielded the Thu’um and beyond that, the power of the Dragonborn, something that hadn’t been seen in Tamriel and perhaps all of Nirn since Tiber Septim.

“Think about that, if you will. Now, in at least one way, she was on the same level as a man who was elevated to godhood. Godhood. How could knowing that sort of thing NOT change a person? She of course was silent through all of our discussion about it, I’m sure because it was hard for her to grasp all the rapid changes. I’ve always said that it’s the quiet ones you have to be careful of.

“Before she left Dragonsreach that day she came to look through my spellbooks again and was more talkative than I’d ever seen her, but it was all smalltalk about the weather. At one point she said, ‘The winds here are different from those in The Reach. Rains too, even the very air is different. It’s all very... different.’ I always look back and wonder if she was hiding some sort of metaphor in all that talk about the weather.”

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