 The team employed Jeremy Soule , who previously worked on Morrowind and Oblivion , to compose the music for Skyrim . " Dragonborn " , the game 's main theme , was recorded with a choir of over thirty people , singing in the fictional Dragon language . Creative director Todd Howard envisioned the theme for Skyrim as The Elder Scrolls theme sung by a choir of barbarians . This became a reality when the idea was passed by Soule , who recorded the 30 @-@ man choir and layered three separate recordings to create the effect of 90 voices . The language , Draconic , was created by Bethesda 's concept artist Adam Adamowicz , and he developed a 34 @-@ character runic alphabet for the game . The lexicon of Draconic was expanded as needed ; as lead designer Bruce Nesmith explained , words were introduced to the lexicon " every time [ the studio wanted ] to say something " . 
