During the Age of Ancients, the Dragons were the everlasting rulers of the World until the Lords rose from the Dark and challenged the Dragons. The result was a catastrophic war which destroyed much of the World. In the end the Dragons were no more and the World dawned a new era known as the Age of Fire.

LoreEdit

Age of AncientsEdit

Not much is known about the world at this time only that the World was unformed, shrouded by fog, filled with grey crags and arch-trees and that the Dragons were the everlasting rulers.

War of FireEdit

Then there was fire and from the dark they came and found the Souls of Lords within the flame. Nito, the First of the Dead, the Witch of Izalith, and her Daughters of Chaos, Gwyn the Lord of Sunlight, and his faithful knights, and the Furtive Pygmy, so easily forgotten. The flame gave them the power to challenge the Dragons for dominion over the World. During the war, Gwyn used his powerful bolts, peeling their strong stone scales, the witches weaved great, powerful firestorms, Nito unleashed a maisma of death and disease, and Seath the Scaleless, the albino Dragon, betrayed his own kind.

Age of FireEdit

The aftermath of the war made the lands barren and lifeless. But despite all this, the Lords and the Humans rebuilt the World and began the Age of Fire, a golden era of the world. While the Ancient Dragons appear to be all but extinct, the race has many descendants, some greater and some lesser.

PlotEdit

The Chosen Undead may encounter many distant ancestors and remnants of the Dragons throughout Lordran and Oolacile.

The Hellkite Dragon encountered in Undead Burg is, in actuality, a Drake. Drakes are seen as undeveloped imitators of the dragons, but in they are likely their distant kin.^[1] Wyverns, a respawning enemy, may also be of similar origin to the Hellkite Dragon and are found in the Valley of the Drakes.

The area boss of the Depths is the Gaping Dragon, a distant, deformed descendant of the everlasting dragons.^[2]

In Ash Lake the Stone Dragon, who is a descendant of the ancient dragons,^[3] initiates the player into the Path of the Dragon Covenant by praying to the Everlasting Dragons. Domhnall of Zena shares a rumor that the Stone Dragon is not a descendant, but a surviving Ancient Dragon.^[4]

Undead Dragons, scattered throughout the land, are corpses of the Ancient Dragons that maintain some spark of life within their rotten form and can be occasionally stumbled upon.

Crossbreed Priscilla of the Painted World of Ariamis, is a Dragon Crossbreed bastard child.^[5]

Seath the Scaleless, the albino dragon, allied with Lord Gwyn and turned upon the Ancient Dragons; for this he was awarded Dukedom embraced by the royalty, and given a fragment of a great soul.^[6]

One-eyed Black Dragon Kalameet may be encountered as an optional boss in the Royal Wood area of Oolacile and is last of the Ancient Dragons.^[7]

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Drake Sword description
2. ↑ Dragon King Greataxe decription
3. ↑ Dragon Greatsword description
4. ↑ Domhnall of Zena dialogue.
5. ↑ Soul of Priscilla description
6. ↑ Bequeathed Lord Soul Shard description
7. ↑ Obsidian Greatsword description