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One of the quirks of The Elder Scrolls franchise is that due to its commitment to keeping so much to only being discovered directly through what you can observe in the games, sometimes there are things throughout the series that are just never elaborated on. 1/several

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One prominent example of this, from my own personal attempts to find an answer for this, is that the most common symbol of the Empire has no actual name in the series. Checking books, dialogue, scripts, asset files, even the US Patent and Trademark Office failed to turn up a name.

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It is seen all over the place, there is even text discussing it (for example, PGE1 informs us the symbol comes from the red dragons slave mounts used by the Akaviri, and there are other references to the dragon's appearance on banners for example).

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@uesp.net

Thankfully, a UESP editor has succeeded at finding an official name for this, a hat from the official Bethesda Gear Store referred to it as the "Imperial Dragon". That's a term we and many others have certainly used before, but now we can finally point to an official recording of its name.

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WizardBiscuits
@wizardbiscuits.bsky.social

Question is, was that always what it’d been called in-house, or was it just what the person found the community called it and assumed that’s what it was while writing the description for the hat?

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One of the most prominent symbols of The Elder Scrolls series can now have an article naming it. ...And because nothing can ever be simple, another piece of merchandise has referred to it as the "Seal of Akatosh"...

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@uesp.net

The phrase "Imperial Dragon" has been used before, but never directly in reference to this symbol to my knowledge. If you are aware of an explicit reference that we missed, I would love to have an additional reference for its name. You can see our article here: en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Imperial_Dragon

Mid-ass vampire
@icylez.bsky.social

I saw said merchandise at some point and fully accepted that was the actual name and meaning. Made sense to me, with Akatosh being the head of the pantheon forming the official religion of the empire.