#dragonians

[abraxas-45]

ive been drawing this dragonian guy the last two days his nickname is doc and hes my son and i love him more than anything

[nyaskitten]

Time for some hashtag Dragons Rising Slop!!!

[painkosmic]

Nico the crazy dragonian wizard!

[thestoryteller-thedreamer]

Dragons Rising S3 E2 Spoilers

Tyr and the old dragonian ladies

He's a sweetheart. Taking care of these random strangers that crash landed by his camp, making friendly jokes, giving them food and medicine... We don't get much of a personality from him, but what I saw I immediately liked.

Please give me more Tyr!!!

And those old dragonian ladies

Dang. They were amazing. Prodding at Sora and Arin's relationship, super blunt and unfazed. I want to sit at their little table and learn life lessons from them.

[sepublic]

So I get the set designers and writers try to collaborate but not always and sometimes the designers do their own thing and the writers really struggle to fit it in. Like man you can feel them struggle to fit it in and their utter lack of enthusiasm and I don’t blame them! Though I sometimes question the sets they choose to prioritize, and the ones they leave out.

But overall I get what happened with the Dragonians; The designers needed a new villain army so the writers were like, anthro dragons and that’s about as much thought as they put into the concept and really needed to, because lbr I don’t need another plot point taking time away from the Forbidden Five.

And the designers ended up doing their own thing with the Dragonians and decided just having them be scalies wasn’t enough, so they created this worldbuilding dynamic of the Dragonians and these little dragons that attach to their backs and grant them the power of flight AND fire breath!

But the writers didn’t expect that, they didn’t intend to, so they just left it out. And it’s a shame because sometimes the sets introduce ideas that I think would’ve been a lot more interesting than what we got in the actual show (a controlled Source Dragon of Motion being one of them), but here I think there was also an easy way to incorporate the idea at least a little?

Instead of a giant ring pop that breaks open to release energy blasts that hit the Dragonians and transform them… Have Thunderfang release his own progeny, a swarm of mini-dragons that latch onto the backs of the wingless Dragonians and fuse with their bodies to mutate them. Make the red Dragonians feel connected to the red dragon lurking right beneath their home. The animators couldn’t have started work until they had actual Dragonian models to work with, so we know they must’ve seen the final minifigures; I think the timeline still fits to add this detail!

There’s definitely the biggest set/story discrepancy with the Dragonians because we have the rocky Storm Village and an insignia not seen in the actual show. There’s giant looming chains in the box art but in the show Thunderfang’s prison just feels so disconnected from the Dragonians themselves despite being right next door. Doc Wyatt said he was imprisoned in a mountain but it’s actually a chasm.

You’re telling me the Dragonians never noticed the giant dragon right below? Never felt any rumbles or quakes, didn’t hear anything? Weren’t influenced by his presence over time? In the sets they have architecture but in the show it’s completely different. Yet at the same time the villager Dragonians just look so much better than the actual set Dragonians, but at the same time I prefer the sets’ worldbuilding!

[paragons-saga]

Examples of females from each Paragon sapient race (minus Leviathan, Dwarves, and Beastfolk because I hadn’t fleshed them out enough yet when I did these).

Kinamel Holyblade (Human, “Daigliçi”) Note: This is an old design.

Taraphilia Luna-Caraway (Lunar Alara)

Sylpheed Wintersong (Dragonian) Note: This version was while I was playing around with Dragonian physiology and trying to make it fit with my current art style. This was not the final design I settled on.

Shu Shanyue (Shu-Ren)

Camille Raywing (Solar Alara)

Arynshae Daelethshee (Aithris Elf)

Dusk Brightstar (Fia Elf)

Tincora Lorwen (Aireag Elf)

[dragon-doggo]

Dragonian girl

Those born of the Dragon Mother, being half human, lack the morphing capabilities of true dragons. Dragon-like features intertwine with their human-shaped bodies.

[sepublic]

I don’t really like the Dragonians’ face prints; They’re kinda ugly and a letdown given what they’re supposed to be, because otherwise they just look like generic red orcs. But compared to Ninjago’s actual orcs the Munce, at least the Munce were supposed to look like that and something about them just works better for me.

So I’m curious as to Doc Wyatt confirming the warriors’ helmets in the show will be part of their actual bodies. Because so far, the sets have this implicit worldbuilding; The scouts are regular Dragonians who bond with these small dragons, who latch onto their backs to grant them the power to fly. I assume the helmet forms when this bond occurs, though there are Dragonians who have the helmet but not the dragon in the sets. But there was also a Wolf Mask general with red Shatterspin armor in the sets who never appeared in the show.

Will this actually be in the show? Their face prints are still visible there, which makes Doc’s distinction that their official minifigures make their physiology confusing hard to follow, because the show models are and do the exact same. Do Dragonians just grow a second head around their own when bonding to a dragon, is it a permanent fusion as they mutate and the dragon takes over, forming a bigger face? Will we even get the scouts in the show? Or will it just be the warriors with the ‘helmet’ bonding to dragons? If so, why leave in the visible face inside the mouth when there’s a fireball side print you can use to stay true to the sets, while still retconning the show Dragonians’ helmets as their only face?

Will there even be any distinction between the Dragonians, their partners, and their helmets? Will the Dragonians just already look like that, there’s no lore of there being a separate dragon that goes onto their backs, it’s all just one living being? Given the designers confirmed Zane’s combiner mech won’t even be a combiner in the show but just a really big, upgraded Zane, I’m concerned. I don’t care for the Dragonians without their helmets/dragons, but the idea of a coming of age ritual where each scout bonds with a dragon for life is cool.

And to go back to Zane’s combiner mech, I can’t help but feel that Riyu being on his back and his head hanging over the top is a reference to the Dragonians; Probably Zane and Riyu being inspired by the Dragonian tradition, and taking full advantage of Riyu’s ability to empower others. Makes me wonder if Riyu’s a hybrid who’s part-whatever those red dragons are.