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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

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.

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).

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.