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Skyrim’s dragons speak a language built from scratch

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World-building reaches its peak when you invent grammar for flying lizards. Bethesda didn't just string together cool-sounding gibberish for the dragons in The Elder Scrolls V. They hired a concept artist to construct a fully functioning Draconic language, complete with a runic alphabet shaped to look like it was violently scratched into stone by giant claws.

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