Talk:Earth Dragon

Two Wars?
The Profile section for this page (and likely others, but I am not certain) note two conflicts between the Divines and the Earth Dragons. One is the conflict mentioned in game in Mystery and so on, involving the Earth Dragons going mad and attacking humanity, Naga and the Divines protecting them, and so on. The other is the one mentioned in Kaga's notes on Jugdral, which involves (apparently) sane Earths challenging the Divines over their decision to succeed control of the world to the "inferior" humans, with Kaga noting that Galle meets Loptyr here.

The problem is, well, I am not sure these are meant to be two separate conflicts. The biggest thing is that the two wars break out for basically the same reason (Earths try to destroy humanity) and have the same conclusion (Naga and Divines fight against Earths and defeat them). I admit, it's been a while since I read super deep into Jugdral lore, but I am pretty sure the extent of Loptyr's backstory stated in game is basically "Loptyr is an evil Dark Dragon from another continent and Galle made a pact with him and got possessed". Loptyr even coming from Akaneia was only revealed by Kaga later alongside this "second" conflict...which may be just a reinterpretation of the first (as if I recall, Kaga doesn't even allude to there being a latter war matching the Mystery backstory). In other words, I don't think we are being completely factual by definitively stating there was two conflicts.

In my opinion, it's possible that the reason the Earth Dragons rebelled and tried to destroy the inferior humans was because they were degenerating and going mad. The Akaneia timeline has a good 400 years between "dragons start degenerating and need to take Manakete form" and "Earth Dragons start attacking people", so...--Otherarrow (talk) 23:29, June 20, 2016 (UTC)