Poll of the Day > If you could have 1 dragon shout which would you pick?

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1. start sex
2. use whirlwind sprint

Bend will

This is pretty much the right answer. Nearly all the others are kind of useless in a real world, non-magical setting. Especially when you'd probably get arrested or shot in short order if you went around setting things on fire by shouting at them. Bend Will has the advantage of being useful in tons of situations, with the added bonus that people you use it on seem to forget what you've ordered them to do after it wears off.

Only other ones that might be useful at all are Clear Skies and Animal Allegiance. Though the problem with Clear Skies is that if you keep using it, you may eventually start messing up weather patterns and cause a local drought. And while Animal Allegiance might be useful for shouting at the squirrels in my attic and telling them to get the fuck out (though Bend Will can kind of accomplish the same thing), it's not going to be all that regularly useful for the average person in modern times living in the city or suburbs.

Become ethereal and slow time would be more beneficial than those other 2 imo, you can pretty much get away from any dangerous situation with either of those

How often in your life are you in dangerous situations where either of those things would really help you?

If you're picking a shout you maybe get to use 2-3 times over the entire course of your life, it's not really a worthwhile choice.

Or if you're living a life where you're constantly in danger where you'd be using a shout to save yourself multiple times a week, maybe you should rethink your life choices in general and stop doing whatever it is you're doing.