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** More or less played straight with Alduin in ''Skyrim'', as he is truly supposed to be unkillable. Although by the time you fight him properly {{spoiler|you have the heroes who banished him in the first place helping you out}}, so perhaps it makes sense.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In the opposite direction. Azura's response to the government of a certain tribe of elves snubbing her? Give them all dark skin, strangely shaped cheekbones, and red eyes. [[Sarcasm Mode|That'll teach'em to ignore the warnings of a Goddess.]] ...Weaksauce.
* [[Draconic Divinity]]: Divinity goes hand in hand with dragons in the ''Elder Scrolls'' universe. The [[Top God]] of the Imperial pantheon, Akatosh, is the father of dragonkind and often takes the form of a dragon himself when he interacts with the mortal plane of Mundus. This appearance is widely used as a symbol by the Third Empire of Man, to the point its currency is called "drakes" due to his appearance on their backside. All legitimate Cyrodiilic emperors are also "Dragonborn" due to descending from a holy covenant formed by Akatosh infusing the saint Alessia with his divine blood, which would ensure that the gods would protect Mundus from the Daedra as long as a Dragonborn emperor sits on the throne.
** As far as other divine dragons go, there are the Jills, female servants of Akatosh that repair the fabric of time after a [[Time Crash|Dragon Break]]. There's also Alduin, the firstborn of Akatosh and a malicious black dragon whose purpose is to destroy the world so a new one can be created in the wake of its destruction. Even generic rank-and-file dragons are lesser Aedra that have more in common with angels and demigods than they do with more animalistic portrayals of dragons, and were worshipped en masse by dragon cults in the distant past.
** Among the Daedra is Peryite, the Daedric Prince of pestilence, tasks, and the natural order. Like all Daedric Princes he's an unfathomably powerful and unholy being worshipped as a god by less than savory types. He takes the form of a spindly, lanky dragon as a mockery of Akatosh's divinity, and is among the more benevolent, or at the very least less malevolent Princes. Doesn't stop him from occasionally unleashing horrific plagues on Mundus, though.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: The fate of various characters/places from ''Morrowind'' during the Daedric invasion of Tamriel in ''Oblivion''. Particularly annoying since it's only mentioned in a few throwaway lines from random characters.
* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: Skooma and Greenmote. Inverted somewhat in that alcohol is worse and of negligible value, alchemic or otherwise, and the illegal drugs are very useful for alchemy.
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