Tuesday, August 12, 2025

In Three Days - Draggin

 There's so many dragons in these games. Literally back to kings field. 

Caligo is a dragon what on earth am I supposed to say about that that I haven't already. 

She's an Ancient Dragon, maybe more ancient than the Ancient Dragons. Seems to function like a mothman but for pivotal moments in history, she seems to be curious about them. 

She look a lot like the archdrakes in dark souls 3, at least her neck and body, save that she has the double dragonfly wings of a True Dragon.

I said in another post that drakes are tied to lakes, can probably be seen as an embodiment of them. 

I don't think caligo was the dragon of the frozen lake,  but I don't think borealis was either. 

Borealis looks all fucked up, like he lost a fight or recently has something like glintstone or omen horns removed. I don't know what that means but I bet it relates to why he moved to the mountaintops, a place not exactly dragon friendly.

I think the frost-emanating drake in the mountaintop shifting earth event is what froze the giants mountaintop and I'm betting frozen lake was their lake before the shattering, if not the lesser drake i always found down towards the foot of the nightreign mountaintop. 

I just went and checked, and the nightreign drake-dragon looks more-or-less identical to borealis, so this could be a variant, twin, or even a member of a once-common line of drakes.

My thinking was always that the Mountaintop was frozen in order to suppress the Fell Flame. And now I'm looking at all the dragon stuff on the map. Magma Wyrms at either end of the river, dragonkin summons guarding the frenzied settlement, a frozen drake nest full of misbegotten, one of whom has the Rennalagon sword.

The Sun itself always seemed to me like it had two factions; one of light and life and lofty ideals, and another of fire and consumption and the withering heat of an overlong summer. These are factionated(?) in-universe between the dragons/sun realm and the giants. The drakes would naturally gravitate towards the flame, but the nightreign frost drake, which I'm sorry but it's way more relevant to broader-universe stuff than Caligo seems to be, is obviously a thing of frost. Further, the treasure of the mountain makes it so frost basically makes someone stronger.

It would almost seem like the original Drake of the Frozen Lake, if it is the one from the Nightrein mountaintop, was used to shift the political balance from the giants to the ancient dragons, which would set the frost drake/s up as having betrayed the other drakes.  

Fuck dragon cult stuff is so confusing...


1 comment:

Денис said...

Tree => seed => human => dragon => lake => dream => ???