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Book 3: The Awakened Depths: The Great One

Hey there, heroes!

Last time, in The Awakened Depths, you and your allies, led by Galanoth, made your way deep beneath the mountain in search of The Great One. But do you have what it takes to survive the Gauntlet?



What awaits beyond? Will you be able to convince The Great One to aid in the reclamation of Dragesvard? It's time to delve into The Gauntlet with your dragon and face The Great One!

Head over your alliance camp in Book 3 Dragonsgrasp to play this week's release: The Great One.

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Also this week: Introducing the Alpha test of the Game Log!

The Game Log is a new addition that will show information on what happens in-game and in battles, including damage/healing, buffs and debuffs, in-game notifications and more.

You can turn on the Game Log Alpha in the Options screen.

As this is an Alpha version, all visuals and log data are very subject to change.

When the log is open, in-game notifications will be suppressed, and instead added to the log!

The ; (semicolon) key can be used to hide or show the log at will (There is also a small button you can click to do so!)

The ' (apostrophe) key can be used to toggle the log between system logs and battle logs.

To scroll through previous log messages, you can put your mouse cursor over the log window and scroll using the mouse wheel.

Logs are currently not saved anywhere.

Let us know what you think! Your feedback will help a lot in shaping this awesome new feature.

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So the reason why the Great One (yeah, I'm a stickler to titles even though there's two of them. Unless of course they're one body, two heads) is being ambiguous was just to troll with the Dragonsgrasp DLs who unintentionally used them as a landing pad for their fortress. Otherwise, they are straight to the point. And, boy, they are definitely huge.

Humor aside, looks like they are one of the first generation Great Dragons if they know about the history of ancient Lore and our companion's descendant. For all their by the book to the inevitability of creation and destruction, at least they show how open they could be. That mumble of Vseslava adds even more intrigue into the workings of the very thing that Jaania is trying to tamper with. Is it really just more than a simple lump of mana, is it some device, or is it a being in and of itself? How that data will affect our saga moving forward, we'll just have to see that as it unfolds. For now, at least we have new allies with the Great One ready to muster the DragonLords to our aid.

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And honestly the execution was better than I ever could've hoped for. The paper scroll aesthetic, the music, the narration; all perfect. I also really liked the Great One's dialogue (or maybe trialogue...?) - it seems the first-generation Great Dragons have a very different perspective from the Avatars' in regards to how closely Lore's balance should be maintained. Also wow... I bet Akriloth wished he was that big.

Allow me to indulge myself a bit here. I think this supports the theory that the whole business between the Aequilibria and the Exalted Alliance went down before Lore's conception, otherwise I think GenoKratos would've brought it up or at least hinted at it. Not to mention it's consistent with Lock and Key's puzzle. I also couldn't help but notice that the depiction of the Dragons, Avatars and Lore looked awfully similar to the mural from this quest, which is also the same thing Notha showed us during the Reckoning war by the way (I would have a screenshot, but we don't really get a good look at it; it's partially covered by something in both quests).

A brief aside about the aforementioned quest. Watching that intro cutscene again after this weeks release was quite insightful. There seems to be a lot of hints and build-up towards this reveal and it only further cements a theory that was shared around the forums nearly five years ago that Dove is himself the Great Light Dragon. It really puts into perspective just how long the team has been feeding me us this expanded lore for us to piece together.

But back to the mural. Now you might be thinking "Well duh Flab, they're both depicting the Elements, of course they look similar". Well I think there might be a little more to it than that. To me the placement of the Saviour and Destroyer being either side of the centre like the Celestials and Infernals are in the mural is no coincidence; this relates to Lock and Key's jigsaw, specifically about the "newer, better children" made "in their image. But only two this time". Meaning that the Saviour and Destroyer were essentially meant to be better versions of the Celestials and Infernals. But there's something else as well...

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That mumble of Vseslava adds even more intrigue into the workings of the very thing that Jaania is trying to tamper with. Is it really just more than a simple lump of mana, is it some device, or is it a being in and of itself?

We know the Mana Core is the literal heart and soul of Lore, and from the mural we can see that Mana is the power that exists between the Elements. But could it be more than that? Is it a coincidence that the Shapeless Empire possessed a piece of the Mana Core as well as the new Saviour Egg? And inferring that the Saviour and Destroyer are children of the Aequilibria, could it be fair to say that these two things have the same point of origin? We know that the Aequilibria are sleeping but where are they sleeping? Is Mana merely between the Elements or is it the power that the Elements themselves sprang from? Is the Core one living being or rather.... two?

TL:DR this release is amazing and I think the Aequilibria are the Mana Core.

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Yeah I think at this point we could definitely slay that Fluffy and Draco were meant to be far better versions of the Infernals and Celestials than the Aequilibria could hope they could be. This still begs the question of why exactly the Infernals and Celestials were imperfect beings. Was it simply because they no longer wished to follow the pattern that Draco and the Elements were supposed to follow?

As was suspected, the World Destroyer and Savior served as blueprints for the creation of the Great Elemental Dragons, developed by the Avatars in a panic, as they were prone to do, in order to maintain balance on Lore when Fluffy's and Draco's original incarnations went missing.

This also begs the question as to what even caused them to die originally. The answer might lie in the Collection of Lorian songs, rhymes and other things
that mentions two dragons going out to play under the "sun" and far away and only one of them returned when the Avatars called them back and then the last one remaining vanishing after it went to play under the "moon"

The Sun and Moon tend to be used as symbols or stand-ins for the elements of the Light and the Darkness so I'm curious if this somehow implicates the two elements being responsible in some way for their original incarnations having died. If light and darkness are in fact being implicated here then it might stand to reason that Darkness might actually mean Shadowscythe here which would make sense given their eternal mission of plunging Lore back into Darkness. Additionally, if any prime element had a hand in their disappearance it would make sense why they started to blame each other beyond simply not keeping a closer eye on the incarnations. The curious factor is what things of the Light would have contributed to one of the dragon's demise.

Alternatively, the sun and moon could be referencing Creation and Destruction. Noticeably there is depiction of the sun and moon right in the middle of the judgement scale in the Drahr'Haitr and Drahr'Dolass boss fight so maybe when they both went to play under the Sun they were playing with Creation itself but eventually this led to one of them dying and the one of the two left died to destruction/chaos/entropy for some reason.

Hmm another alternative might be that one killed the other and died later themselves for whatever reason.

Also: "as long as the mana core still slumbers" Well that's a big no no if Flabagast is right about what could be down there then Jaania's plan could quite literally doom us all even more than we thought, also might mean Akanthus' little bomb is liable to irritate what's lying in there.

Uh these lore drops were so good

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This still begs the question of why exactly the Infernals and Celestials were imperfect beings. Was it simply because they no longer wished to follow the pattern that Draco and the Elements were supposed to follow?

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Quite possibly. Maybe the Aequilibria envisioned them fighting each other due to their opposing natures, and became outraged when they discovered they were instead working together. Or maybe they already held discontent for their creators and formed the Alliance to better their chances of overcoming them. Who's to say how the conflict began and which party initiated it. As for why the Exalted were imperfect, it's not uncommon for stories and myths to feature gods who fail at their first attempt at creation and start anew. Perhaps the gods themselves are also imperfect?

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This also begs the question as to what even caused them to die originally. The answer might lie in the Collection of Lorian songs, rhymes and other things that mentions two dragons going out to play under the "sun" and far away and only one of them returned when the Avatars called them back and then the last one remaining vanishing after it went to play under the "moon"[This also begs the question as to what even caused them to die originally. The answer might lie in the Collection of Lorian songs, rhymes and other things that mentions two dragons going out to play under the "sun" and far away and only one of them returned when the Avatars called them back and then the last one remaining vanishing after it went to play under the "moon"

I thought of that poem as well. I didn't think much of the "sun" and "moon" parts when I read it, but you might on to something with that connection to those scales in the Hatir and Dolaas bossfight. I didn't even consider that those might be connected. It would make sense that the sun and moon are symbolic of their respective duties.

And yes, Jaania is definitely WAAYY over her head in trying to weave herself into the Mana Core if my wacky theory is right. The list of all possible scenarios would be long, and none of them would be good. Not to mention Akanthus' Doom Boom...

Good heavens I hope Circe and Eirn stop that airship!