About the ancient dragons
looking at my pre-hyrule era loz characters you may be asking yourself "if the goddess envoys arent dragons yet, then what dragons is the sage of dragons claiming to know?"
the answer is a bit of a stretch, so im calling this an au/interpretation. the sage of dragons, and the people of the land at large, know 3 dragons, but not any dragon that we see alive.
the dragons that im talking about are the great dark skeletons in the depths in totk. i dont have pictures of them, but if you take a look at them you see they are (as far as we can see) limbless, serpentine, and absolutely ginormous.
in my au, those dragons were alive from the early days to the height of the zonai people (which, perhaps not coincidentally, was also very close to the fall of the zonai people). they came to be when the zonai began to experiment more freely with the secret stones and the magics of the land. It has been stated multiple times that the zonai people worshiped the golden goddesses and triforce, so im making it so that the old dragons are the first immortal dragons.
where, then, did the dragons go? they died. they were killed off by the same thing that killed the race tha they originally spawned from: the innovation and hubris of the zonai people.
if the zonai people went to the sky, how come the skeletons are in the depths? the zonai people clearly knew about the depths, we know this because of aoi and totk and the zonai architecture and devices sprawled across the entirety of the depths. so, the zonai knew about the depths, but as for how the dragons got down there without access to the chasms the modern-day ones use to get into the depths... well, i dont exactly know.
for the moment i am trying to decide between a few explanations.
1.: the dragons made their way down there and died. could have happened, but its boring and also, how did they find their way down? they were gigantic and unless they burrowed their limbless bodies beneath the rocks and soil of the land, then they wouldve had to find a suitably sized hole. no records of any holes deep enough exist, but they could have been there i suppose.
2.: a new crust of land formed over the previous land.... i dont like this one, and im only saying it because its something that could have happened if the golden goddesses intervened or something like that. we see major geological changes to hyrule all of the time, very few instances of hyrule look similar save for a few ever moving landmarks. there was a giant flood that covered nearly all of hyrule. the zonai raised a substantial amount of land into the air. all of this to say: crazy things can and will happen when it comes to the land itself.. . so who's to say that the depths arent some long-forgotten surface world left moldering in the shadows?
3.: the dragons were buried in the depths purposefully. the dragon were seen as minor deities/ messengers of their respective goddess. its fully possible that once the dragons died (killed by constructs if youll beleive it) the people of the land, not just the zonai but others too, took it upon themselves to put the dragons to rest.
there are many more ways it could have happened, but these (mainly 3) are the ones im considering for my story/au. i wish we knew more about these ancient beasts, they seem so interesting!
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