The Chosen Ones

actually since only this little is known about dragon slayers, i always felt like dragon slayers are not an organization but rather just strong guys being able to fight dragons because of their special nature.
i mean sure, in some chapter some guard saith hes a dragonslayer soon and that hints at them being some sort of order, but that just doesnt feel right to me.

for example, somewhere in this forum someone said something about the anime/manga fairy tail. do you know it? in that manga, dragon slayers are people who mastered magic that was created to slay dragons, long ago, in the dragon wars (sounds familiar?). so basically everyone who can learn that magic is a dragon slayer, but they are not some kind of order and not all dragon slayers fight on the same side. also, dragonslayer magic is the same "style" of magic that real dragons use, so dragons can actually teach dragonslayer magic to humans. at least, thats how it works in fairy tail and to be honest, even though i only watched fairy tail after i played TCO, thats exactly how i imagined it in TCO aswell.

the ranks on the other hand are assigned by the military or king of belgaron, so thats where they connect to the kingdom, but not by being dragonslayers naturally. means, if some guy in the woods is super strong and kills dragons, hes a dragonslayer even though he doesnt belong to the belgaron military. get my point? a dragonslayer is someone who is courageous and strong enough to face dragons head on, not some dully who goes through some kind of military training.

actually you can learn everything about dragon slayers just by looking at tharo. hes the essence of a dragon slayer. you cant **** with him, you cant even CLICK on him without him killing you. hes strong, hes wild and he doesnt give a ****. why is he a dragon slayer? because he slays dragons, not because hes in the military, he probably wasnt even in the military to begin with, but was only placed in a high rank because of his power.

the rank of a dragon slayer may be assigned through politics, but being a dragon slayer can never be assigned by anyone but yourself through slaying a dragon. thats how it works.
hence if there are no dragons to fight, you aint becoming no dragon slayer. you aint not joining no dragon slayer order. you aint not caught up in dragon slayer politics. why not? because youre not a damn dragon slayer without having a god damn dragon head on your chimney!

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okay that was just me bragging about dragon slayers but not answering your question. what you could tell about them you ask. well, as i see it, the only thing that makes them really recognizeable is the battles they fought in the war. im not sure as of to tell more stories about the battles and the war, since all we are getting told is interesting but scarce. if you'd tell more, you'd probably destroy the "legend" feeling about the war.

right now, what we know about dragon slayers is that they are badass, do we need to know more? sure i want to know which dragons phodom slew and what kind of battle it was, and i want to know where tharo got elexorien from and why hes so **** strong, but would it be good if i knew? aint i so in love with tharo because i DONT know? because i can imagine it myself?

thats what i think. if you create something really cool, leave it at that without explaining WHY its all so cool.

as always i have an example. do/did you watch the naruto anime or read the manga? personally i dont like it very much, but what i do like is the character itachi. holy **** is he badass and nobody really knows why. he killed his own family and all of his clan and only spared his little brother and there are tons of theorys from all sorts of characters about why he did what and how he became so **** strong, and when everything is being explained it the end, it sucks so hard you want to invent a time machine and go back to the day you started watching this bullshlt anime and throw your computer out the window.

media, especially games, is not made to substitute the human fantasy but rather to draw it out. the more you can make people imagine a lot while only giving them little, the better you are. and i think thats exactly what TCO does right now, holy **** am i imagining alot here.



PS: btw one question: in older versions, at the beginning of every chapter, you had that legend of dragoon title screen music, right? you probably removed it due to loading times, but if you put that back in again, i'd gladly load a few seconds longer for it.


PS2: i just remembered that this noc'thoria guy founded a dragon slayer organization, but to me thats more of a place where strong people gather instead of a place where strong people are made.