The Range of the Dragon Shout in Skyrim

The ‘call dragon’ shout from the popular Bethesda game Skyrim has the ability to summon a dragon from any point on the games 40km 2 map. By modelling the attenuation of the human voice, it was discovered that the male and female human voices would only carry between ~0.11-0.15 km. For the shout to travel the entire map and arrive at an audible level, the shout must be at a volume of the order 10 36 dB or 10 48 dB for males and females respectively. Alternatively, for a very loud human shout (129 dB), the dragon would have to hear magnitudes as low as 10 -46 dB.