#im thinking after Alduin's defeat more dovah willingly submit/follow them & Tei uses this as a way to

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sorry to ramble bout this scrambled Skyrim story again but: i had it where Paarthy was eventually killed by another dragon, forcing Tei to take over as Thuri but now like...im thinking of Miraak being the one to kill him?? Seeing as he was accidentally spared (managed to get caught up in whatever sent a then-dying Tei out of Mora’s realm) n all. Like he only followed Tei into the battle against Alduin was because the Argonian literally forced him to submit to them (see: beat the shit out of him), & any attempts to rebel + get back into the whole ‘enslaving/mind controlling everyone’ schtick were met with an ass kicking or a threat to be sent back to H.Mora that Tei can & would follow through with should they need to.

Why would Miraak go grandpa dragon hunting? Tei did not follow through with the Blades’ request to kill Paarthunax - they understood the reasoning, but felt the elder dovah was needed to ensure they themselves didn’t succumb to their draconic nature, so Tei ended up parting ways. Miraak could probably take advantage of this?? Maybe?? But also idk how’d he get the Blades on his side even then bcus I feel like Tei would know if they were Bend Will-d.....

idk idk but im kinda leaning for that being the reason Tei is kinda pushed into the leadership position for the dragons who would be loyal to them/follow any Thuri there is - Granted it would end in Miraak’s death as well (less out of revenge more out of ‘okay he’s not gonna deal with submitting to my power anymore, he is a threat and needs to go’), buuut Tei wasn’t really planning on letting him live, or at the very least stay on Nirn, too much longer.