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Fire Breath
YOL Fire TOOR Inferno SHUL Sun
Inhale air, exhale flame, and behold the Thu'um as inferno.
Basic Info
Recharge	30, 50, 100
Locations	Dustman's Cairn (during Proving Honor) Sunderstone Gorge Throat of the World (during The Throat of the World)
ID	00020E17 00020E18 00020E19
Sound

Main article: Dragon Shouts

Fire Breath is a Dragon Shout in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

EffectsEdit

The Fire Breath shout allows the Dragonborn to shout a forceful blast of fire, spreading at a high speed. This force inflicts 50, 70 or 90 fire damage and sets enemies in its path on fire as well as staggers them.

Once the Dragonborn completes the quest, The Throat of the World, they will be allowed to Meditate on the Words of Power. If the Dragonborn chooses "Yol", a magic effect called "The Fire Within" will be added. It increases the strength of the Fire Breath Shout by 25%.

UsefulnessEdit

• Very effective against foes already susceptible to fire damage such as Vampires, Frost Atronachs, Frost Dragons, Draugr, Ice Wraiths, and Trolls.
• As with any fire-based attack, this can be used to ignite pools of oil found in dungeons.
• With "The Fire Within", the shout can be used as a primary offensive shout if the shouter is facing such enemies as Draugr, Bears, Bandits, etc.
• With "Dragonborn Flame", one is able to sow chaos among enemy forces, destroying weak enemies and summoning Fire wyrms to destroy the more powerful ones.

TriviaEdit

• In Helgen, while running from Alduin's assault at the beginning of the game, Alduin uses this shout often. Setting "General Subtitles" to active, and then staying near him will allow to hear/read it better.
• It is used commonly by dragons.
• Dragonborn's Fire Breath and Dragon's Fire Breath are different.  Dragonborn's Fire Shout is actually more similar to the Dragon's "Fireball Shout" rather than Dragon's traditional Fire Shouts.
• If you spend a Dragon soul to unlock the Fire Breath on the Throat of the World  before Paarthurnax teaches you the Dragon shout without the use of a Dragon soul, His teaching will become a dragon soul instead and be added on the Dragon souls you have absorbed.

BugsEdit

• A glitch to max the shout is while on the Throat of the World during the main quest, once you learn the word from Paarthurnax. Before he channels the energy to you, go to the magic menu and in shouts purchase the second level. Then when he channels the energy it will automatically give you the third level of the shout; however, doing this and then getting a miscellaneous quest to find another fire breath word wall from Arngeir will render that miscellaneous quest unfinishable, as the word cannot be learned from the wall due to it already being known.
•  PC   If an enemy is killed by this shout, it will be launched an impressive distance even at first level. The same launch also applies if you shout at a corpse; in this scenario, the first level shout can surpass the propulsion abilities of even the 3rd level Unrelenting Force. The effect, however, is completely aesthetic, as the enemy is already dead.
• It is possible that if you learn the first word from Paarthurnax the two other walls will only give you the second word from both, making impossible to get the third.
• Very rarely, when you unlock the first word and then finish the Companions questline then go to the Throat of the World Quest, the word wall will sometimes give you the second and third words.

AppearancesEdit

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (First appearance)