Really? I haven’t talked about this yet? Well anyway, a Dragon Break is an event is which time “breaks” and becomes non-linear. Basically, the timeline splits and time goes all wonky, making people give birth to their own fathers and weird paradoxes like that. After a Break, the multiple timelines will sometimes suddenly try to combine with each other, causing even more paradoxes. Remember, Akatosh is the god of time and he’s depicted as a dragon. So that’s why it’s called a Dragon Break. Dragon Breaks are typically triggered when people mess with forces that are beyond mortals, and sometimes beyond immortals. People say that when the ancient Nords used an Elder Scroll to send Alduin to the future, it was a Dragon Break. I don’t believe that. I mean, time stayed linear, there was just time travel. The most universally accepted Dragon Break was the Middle Dawn. The Middle Dawn was triggered when the Marukhati Selective danced on the Tower and broke Akatosh. The Middle Dawn is said to have lasted 1,008 years. The only thing that everyone agrees on about the Middle Dawn is that while it was happening, eight stars fell from the sky. That was the only constant. The Khajiit claim that the moons were also constant, but they are specially attuned to the moons, so no one else noticed. Mannimarco, The King of Worms and one of the most powerful mages ever, claims that during the Middle Dawn, some people had greater control over themselves than others. Namely the Tribunal and some thought to be Heroes. A Break also occurred when Tiber Septim activated Numidium in order to conquer the Summerset Isles. In the Third Era, during the events of the game Daggerfall, Numidium was activated again, causing a Dragon Break in which five different groups all had complete control over Numidium at the same time. Each group used Numidium to conquer the rest of the Iliac Bay, gaining complete control of the region. After “roughly two days,” the Break ended, causing all five groups to find that they didn’t conquer all of the bay, but were suddenly sharing it with four other groups. This event is know as the Warp in the West. So yeah, Dragon Breaks are super complicated, I hope I explained them well enough, and I also know that I didn’t.