#novablade

[tategaminu]

ATA3 #11: Two kings

This is based on an screenshot from House of the Dragon. Self indulgence is making dragon shows crossovers. Happy birthday Ezran :) I hope we can see you again big and strong.

[self-spaghettification]

ok so i always wondered why the star in the mystery of aaravos intro looked the way it does instead of just a regular 4 prong star?

like this, yk:

and then i was looking at it and. i was like OH

it’s because it’s supposed to be the nova-blade.

it was there all along, since s4 and it will be until s7.

yk, the novablade, that thing that’s maybe gonna kill aaravos! a weapon used against him OR by him to make the other stars fall! like they are on screen! at the literal core of the mystery of aaravos!

they can’t just do that to us

[sagegreenfrogs]

Y'know... it seems like TDP purposefully included the detail in 7x09 that Soren drops his sword off the Storm Spire. They could've had him hold onto it but drop it when Claudia grapples him and Corvus or something like that

But they didn't. He drops it off the spire. What if it's lost forever?

...So what if Ezran gives Soren the Novablade instead? He is the most skilled swordsman in the Crownguard after all, and I doubt Ez feels comfortable holding onto the weapon that almost made him sacrifice the principles he's devoted his life to

I'm picturing an Arc 3 reunion between our Magefam siblings where they both wield the artifacts of the dragon that killed Laurelion (the scale and the tooth)

that's actually really interesting lol!!

it would also play into the whole thing with soren and claudia where they emerge very different from the same trauma, two sides of the same coin etc etc

[shadowwy]

Yes, I know I already posted today, but I just had a thought that made me think of something.

As we all know at this point, the only thing that can destroy the mortal vessel of a startouch elf is an archdragon's bite, well... just their teeth also work. So, doesn't this mean that archdragons evolved in a way that allowed them to hunt down startouch elves? Or that maybe, there used to be a time where there were archdragons who exclusively hunted startouch elves to survive?

I'm 99.99% sure that whoever came up with this idea did not think it through, but, I wonder how startouch eating dragons would look like and if eating such creatures would change something about your anatomy. And if maybe star dragons are the number one predator.

And also, i do find it kinda funny, cuz it's the equivalent of them killing their own creator

[parroset]

Novablade Theory: the Novablade is made from a star devourer dragon's tooth.

I was reminded of this theory by this post and decided to share it. So we don't know much about the Novablade, but we do have this quote and image:

"Ivory draconic brought death's bite, known ever forth as Novablade."

I think the wording here is interesting. Both "ivory" and "bite" are very strongly related to teeth, and of course, we have the word "draconic." The most notable thing about the Novablade is that it has the ability to make an immortal "no more"--whatever that means. In other words, it can take down a startouch elf in some capacity.

You know what else has that ability?

Star devourer dragons consume stars and the magic within. Now, this passage likely means actual stars and not startouch elves, but in Patience and Ripples, Aaravos refers to the two interchangeably, calling the other startouch elves "stars."

If the star devourer dragon can eat startouch elves, it's logical to assume that its teeth could be used to kill a startouch elf, or at least take some power away from one. The use of the word "draconic" really highlights this, as it can only really be referring to a handful of things. This could give some insight into how star devourer dragons work biologically: their teeth somehow kill a star(touch elf) and then they can consume the magical essence. Like a snake injecting venom into its prey.

Also interesting to note: the Novablade is probably named after supernovas, giant explosions of stars that create black holes. A supernova can shine brighter than a galaxy and can be seen from very far away. Star devourer dragons also, in a way, create changes in space that can be seen from far away (the stars in the night sky disappearing) and replace a star with darkness (just like a black hole). There is also a connection between them consuming the power of a star and a black hole consuming... Well, everything. They are decidedly less explosive than a supernova, but there is an organism there that absorbs the energy of the explosion and, likely, minimizes it.

Will this in any way affect the plot? Probably not. Is it still interesting to think about? To me, it is.

[nightmaira]

A thought just occured to me...the Dragang are getting the novablade and we were so distracted by the rest of the stuff going on in between that we couldn't pay attention to the fact that

Aaravos could die.

[ferrumfluorite]

A commission and an art trade for @blackberreh!

[blackberreh-art]

Bab Novablade with some proper art 🙏