Alduin eats you if you don't enter the keep at the start of the game.

[ParadoX]

I made a new character and I was just running and jumping around watching the imperials fight alduin, when he starts attacking me and then landed, grabbed me and threw me into a wall. I don't know if anyone else has ever done this before but I think it's really cool, it started me back at the point after I finished making my character.

[raubrey]

Yeah, for some odd reason I started to pick a fight with Alduin after 1500 hours with no weapons, armor and my hands bound -- actually I was running around checking my graphics card with explosions. I did get away before I died though. I think "he" looks better in the beginning so the close-up of him was pretty neat.

[Brandybuck]

Yes. The game gives you some leeway at the start, but eventually Alduin will have you for breakfast if you don't take cover inside the building. Oh, and those falling rocks HURT!

[Dexter]

Yeah he will, I learned that the hard way while trying to take screenshots. >.<

[ParadoX]

Originally posted by raubrey:

Yeah, for some odd reason I started to pick a fight with Alduin after 1500 hours with no weapons, armor and my hands bound -- actually I was running around checking my graphics card with explosions. I did get away before I died though. I think "he" looks better in the beginning so the close-up of him was pretty neat.

Originally posted by Brandybuck:

Yes. The game gives you some leeway at the start, but eventually Alduin will have you for breakfast if you don't take cover inside the building. Oh, and those falling rocks HURT!

Originally posted by Dexter:

Yeah he will, I learned that the hard way while trying to take screenshots. >.<

Yea it honestly scared me, I didn't expect him to start attacking me then bam, I deaded.

[ParadoX]

I also have a deathwing mod on so he looks even cooler when he goes to eat you :D

[Eternie]

After your in the keep though all his actions point at him protecting you from the evil Imperials!
Well they try to behead you for no reason! but that if your just playing around being an idiot he'll take you out.

On one of my many playthroughs I spent a load of time documenting pictorially each action he takes after the first keep. He will thuum you which just ragdolls you puts you into 3rd person spective and allows you to see your prisoner character.

My take on Alduin being there is to save you as he recognises your dova spirit .... and his arrogance wants you to bloom as a dova as he doesn't think you are a threat to him anyway.

[ParadoX]

Originally posted by Eternie:

After your in the keep though all his actions point at him protecting you from the evil Imperials!
Well they try to behead you for no reason! but that if your just playing around being an idiot he'll take you out.

On one of my many playthroughs I spent a load of time documenting pictorially each action he takes after the first keep. He will thuum you which just ragdolls you puts you into 3rd person spective and allows you to see your prisoner character.

My take on Alduin being there is to save you as he recognises your dova spirit .... and his arrogance wants you to bloom as a dova as he doesn't think you are a threat to him anyway.

That's how I think of it, that he knows you're Dovahkiin so he's trying to keep you alive until you're strong enough that he can kill you and absorb your power like you do other dragons, so taht he can become the most powerful being throughout Tamriel. Except of course Dovahbit, nothing is more powerful than the evil wizard turned cute little bunny rabbit. Nothing.

[Justice]

That's kill cam animation, it happens when enemy can finish you between 1-3 hits.

[ParadoX]

Originally posted by Tank:

That's kill cam animation, it happens when enemy can finish you between 1-3 hits.

I know it's a kill cam animation, I was just posting this to see if anyone else had had this happen to them. After it happened I looked it up and I couldn't find a single thing on this.