Dragon Respawns..., But...But *How*?... Options

[McBadgere]

Ere!!...

I did the Main Quest™ ages ago...Y'know, Kiw de Dwaaaagon and all that...

On my original character, who also did the MQ™, once Alduin was offed, no more dragons...And I wandered around for ages before the Civil War cacked his game up...

Soooo, how comes this time, with J'Zirlo, I'm still getting Dragons respawning around the peaks and attacking cities? (mostly Winterhold...SnassnFrassn... )...I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good bit of dragon-farming, makes much dosh...But how is it possible when the catalyst for their awakening is now gone?...

And like I said, the first time I did the runthrough™...No more dragons...

Be this glitched or is it actually supposed to be like that?...

[Grits]

Dragons are indeed supposed to keep appearing after the MQ, just not very often.

At the end of the MQ Paarthurnax says something about the rest of the dragons being scattered and his plans to make them bow to him, or acknowledge his Thu’um or something. When my post-MQ game gets a dragon I just assume it’s one of the leftover ones moving into a lair made vacant by Rowan and Vorstag’s previous efforts. I don’t think that any more are meant to be resurrected in the game's story. I mean, we know that they show up because the game spawns new ones, but the characters don’t.