Skyrim’s dragons set the standard for towering, fire-breathing lizards in videogames. Though only a minor part of an enormous canon, Alduin and his ilk are now an inextricable icon of the Elder Scrolls universe. That’s why it surprised me that The Elder Scrolls Online waited so long before finding an excuse to bring dragons back to Tamriel—not just as an out-of-the-way boss but as the winged terrors we so fondly remember from Skyrim.Thank god for Elsweyr, The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest expansion, then. Though it’s set in the arid deserts of the Khajiit homeland—far from the frigid tundra of Skyrim—a silly mage has gone and awoken a fleet of dragons that are ravaging the poor Khajiit of Elsweyr. But how does fighting a dragon in Elder Scrolls Online compare to fighting on in Skyrim, and which game has the best dragons?Dragon vs. dragonConsidering ESO is calling 2019 its Season of the Dragon, it’s fair to say that dragons will play a big role in the MMO’s evolving story—and I hope that means how dragons are implemented will evolve too. With Elsweyr, players get a new zone to explore along with a bunch of new quests. But what interested me was…