Fair enough. [He answers, smiling.] No reward could measure up to the friends I made in the course of my adventures, either.

[Which might answer Kurt's question, at least in part. If not, this next part certainly will] Dragons, in my world, are the children of Akatosh, god of time. Alduin was the firstborn, and not far off from a god in his own right. So... similar in terms of threat level, at least.