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Ferrovax Identity - crazy theory

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seanham:
Maybe like Odin and other immortals, dragons were given a choice by TWG. The choice to give up some of their power and influence but remain in the mortal world or keep their power and go away like the old gods. Maybe the 4 or 5 Dragons that we see are the few that decided to stay in/around the mortal world so they lose the ability to transform into their true form (without breaking reality) but gain the ability to live among mortals and continue to collect and hoard gold and other treasures.

Yuillegan:

--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on July 14, 2021, 01:16:35 AM ---I'm not seeing much conflict between the video and the previous comments. Maybe he said at some point that there were four and only four Big D Dragons, but I think it's just how we interpreted what he really said.

In all, there are likely a bunch of Dragons, Asian or not, that are still being Cosmic Avatars. They're doing their job.

A handful, specifically four (or five) were disgruntled workers among the other worker Dragons, and they descended to Earth in earthly forms. Those were Ferro, Sirio, Pyro, and the unnamed fourth. And possibly Lucifer.

For all we know, Dragons might be Angels, or Angels might be Dragons. The earthly Dragons might be the Dragon equivalent of the Grigori or the Fallen. (I'm not saying they're either, just the Dragon-pantheon equivalent)

So only two remaining on earth doesn't preclude others not being on alive but not on earth.

As for European vs Asian, it could be that the Four were responsible for European regions (like Grigori had specific tasks on Earth) and they kinda sorta transubstantiated, but the Asian and other Dragons kind of tsked and went about their business.

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Or, be hedged his answer to avoid accusations of euro-centric mythologies being predominant in the series, and tried to give an out so as to not offend anyone.

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I get what you're saying. I guess we will find out more later when he is next asked about it/it makes it into the series. Yeah, I think we all originally assumed there was only three or four total Big D Dragons but he hasn't actually ruled out that there may have been more, in fact he seems to have suggested that there is more than four (as you pointed out).

There's surely a relationship between Dragons, Angels, and Gods. I have zero idea what it is but they all seem to have been involved in setting up the universe and responsible for maintaining it before things went south and wars happened etc.

Also, I really hope he didn't hedge his answer for that reason. The poor man is a western man writing about mostly western mythologies and magic systems, set in a western country. Of course euro-centric mythos is going to be predominant. Yes, even I would love to see more stuff from the rest of the world. But I don't necessarily think he needs to do that or that he should do that. I certainly am not offended by his lack of inclusion. I could perhaps understand if someone was a bit annoyed if he had a more global series that either omitted or washed out certain mythos so that western mythos was preeminent. But that's not the situation he is in. As far as most authors go, he takes great care to be quite respectful of people's religions and cultures (including non-western mythologies). He might not be perfect and perhaps others do it better, I don't know. But I think he does a damn good job and he tries hard to get it right.

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