2013-04-08, 02:54 AM
BTW: My take on Guyra is he is somehow imprisoned in Melenat, rather than being from another dimension.
I even like the idea that really he is imprisoned inside the Dark Crystal, and when you go to his map you are really entering the Dark Crystal or Dark Slayer that is in your inventory. But it doesn't have to be that way. And honestly I'd be almost inclined to not have Guyra restricted to that techno zone on Melenat. But it would be a shame to not include it because it is so striking. I don't have a real opinion here either way, but the idea of Guyra being imprisoned in the Dark Slayer, and him taking the Moonlight Sword in there with him, while Seath is imprisoned in the Moonlight, is really trippy. That would even give Seath a reason to wet his britches.
Ultimately I think the dragons are just ephemeral by nature. They can walk between worlds, because they don't really exist in the first place. Because they create existence, so for them to exist is silly. But they do also create bodies for themselves to inhabit from time to time. Transubstantiation (edited: also the gods in my mind are just the bodies of the dragons if the dragons were their cells so to speak. The true demons then are like axioms, platonic truths, like mathematics, that exist on a whole other level, but are kind of at odds with dragons, they can't coexist)
I think the Dragon Fountain and Dragon Tree are connected. Like the fountain waters the tree. In proposed game IV there is no more water on the planet. So survivors must drink the poison water of the Dragon Fountain to live. That said the hidden pure elves are still blessed by Elfos and Elwin and create artificial atmospheres where water exists. And I think demons who migrated by water to other continents during the dry spell have erected domes with artificial atmospheres. Some water also exists deep below ground enjoyed by dwarves. But anyway the Dragon Fountain is eternal, created by Elfos, first and foremost as a means to limit the movement of the pure elves who cannot live on fresh water, but also as a compact with Valad to water the Dragon Tree for the sake of sustaining vegetation which is not the domain of Elfos and Elwin.
EDITED: Possibly some monsters carry water with them that no one understands how they get hold of it. Perhaps they can even synthesize it with their magic. So people hunt them for their water to survive. Its not like the planet is completely without an atmosphere, but its close, rain almost never falls. It's like a desert everywhere prior to the flood to say the least. Maybe there are oasis around the fountains, but they are poison water oases, so only monsters will grow there. Much vegetation is really monsters.
I think the giants being original creations of Valad can live without water not being compatible with men (there are no half-giants and no women either) as can many kinds of monsters.
PS: I see the Dragon Tree as being an analogue to the world tree in Norse mythology. Its roots go every where underground and even plant themselves into the deep underworld right into molten magma. Its kind of like the child that all the gods had. Valad has very childlike qualities. Elfos is the mother, and Elwin is the father, and Sylval is Promethean (at least from the perspective of the dragons/gods, all began with him, and all will return to him)
I even like the idea that really he is imprisoned inside the Dark Crystal, and when you go to his map you are really entering the Dark Crystal or Dark Slayer that is in your inventory. But it doesn't have to be that way. And honestly I'd be almost inclined to not have Guyra restricted to that techno zone on Melenat. But it would be a shame to not include it because it is so striking. I don't have a real opinion here either way, but the idea of Guyra being imprisoned in the Dark Slayer, and him taking the Moonlight Sword in there with him, while Seath is imprisoned in the Moonlight, is really trippy. That would even give Seath a reason to wet his britches.
Ultimately I think the dragons are just ephemeral by nature. They can walk between worlds, because they don't really exist in the first place. Because they create existence, so for them to exist is silly. But they do also create bodies for themselves to inhabit from time to time. Transubstantiation (edited: also the gods in my mind are just the bodies of the dragons if the dragons were their cells so to speak. The true demons then are like axioms, platonic truths, like mathematics, that exist on a whole other level, but are kind of at odds with dragons, they can't coexist)
I think the Dragon Fountain and Dragon Tree are connected. Like the fountain waters the tree. In proposed game IV there is no more water on the planet. So survivors must drink the poison water of the Dragon Fountain to live. That said the hidden pure elves are still blessed by Elfos and Elwin and create artificial atmospheres where water exists. And I think demons who migrated by water to other continents during the dry spell have erected domes with artificial atmospheres. Some water also exists deep below ground enjoyed by dwarves. But anyway the Dragon Fountain is eternal, created by Elfos, first and foremost as a means to limit the movement of the pure elves who cannot live on fresh water, but also as a compact with Valad to water the Dragon Tree for the sake of sustaining vegetation which is not the domain of Elfos and Elwin.
EDITED: Possibly some monsters carry water with them that no one understands how they get hold of it. Perhaps they can even synthesize it with their magic. So people hunt them for their water to survive. Its not like the planet is completely without an atmosphere, but its close, rain almost never falls. It's like a desert everywhere prior to the flood to say the least. Maybe there are oasis around the fountains, but they are poison water oases, so only monsters will grow there. Much vegetation is really monsters.
I think the giants being original creations of Valad can live without water not being compatible with men (there are no half-giants and no women either) as can many kinds of monsters.
PS: I see the Dragon Tree as being an analogue to the world tree in Norse mythology. Its roots go every where underground and even plant themselves into the deep underworld right into molten magma. Its kind of like the child that all the gods had. Valad has very childlike qualities. Elfos is the mother, and Elwin is the father, and Sylval is Promethean (at least from the perspective of the dragons/gods, all began with him, and all will return to him)