DERP DERP DERP
So I woke up today and had this sudden realization that I...maybe not exactly screwed up, but definitely did something that reads that way if you're not following my thinking on it, while threading with Pamela last night.
They were discussing a dinosaur, whether it is in fact a dragon, and Leaf mentioned that he's never seen a dragon! Nobody's seen a dragon since the holy crusaders!
WHY NO, THERE ARE NO DRAGONS IN JUGDRAL. CERTAINLY NOT THOSE ONES THAT THE DRAGON KNIGHTS OF THRACIA, THE TRADITIONAL SWORN ENEMIES OF HIS KINGDOM, FLY AROUND ON OR ANYTHING.
The problem here is that there are two kinds of dragons in most FE-verses, and the games are sometimes hilaribad about noting the distinction. You have dragons, the ones flown by the dragon riders of Thracia/Bern/Grado/what-have-you. And then you have dragons, the big mythical ones that usually show up either as endbosses or via the Manaketes/Dragon Tribe, and that everyone is shocked as hell to see despite the fact that there's been a dude riding a dragon in their party for like ten chapters now.
You see my dilemma. :(
The official translations have skirted this issue by calling the former "wyverns" and leaving the latter as dragons. But since Seisen and Thracia have no official translation, and the fan translations have stayed in the habit of using "dragon," my brain is in a weird kind of autopilot where I distinguish between them, but call them both dragons.
So basically the logic when Leaf says he hasn't seen a dragon is that he's never seen a dragon god, because they haven't been around on Jugdral since they showed up and did creepy blood rites with his ancestors way back when. When he's wondering if that dinosaur is just some other kind of dragon, he's wondering if it's some bizarre offshoot of real dragons. Because he thinks it's rather obviously not a wyvern-dragon!
In the future I will think harder about this shit before I say it because god, what the hell. I'VE NEVER SEEN A DRAGON, IT'S NOT LIKE MY SISTER HAS ONE OR ANYTHING 8Db
They were discussing a dinosaur, whether it is in fact a dragon, and Leaf mentioned that he's never seen a dragon! Nobody's seen a dragon since the holy crusaders!
WHY NO, THERE ARE NO DRAGONS IN JUGDRAL. CERTAINLY NOT THOSE ONES THAT THE DRAGON KNIGHTS OF THRACIA, THE TRADITIONAL SWORN ENEMIES OF HIS KINGDOM, FLY AROUND ON OR ANYTHING.
The problem here is that there are two kinds of dragons in most FE-verses, and the games are sometimes hilaribad about noting the distinction. You have dragons, the ones flown by the dragon riders of Thracia/Bern/Grado/what-have-you. And then you have dragons, the big mythical ones that usually show up either as endbosses or via the Manaketes/Dragon Tribe, and that everyone is shocked as hell to see despite the fact that there's been a dude riding a dragon in their party for like ten chapters now.
You see my dilemma. :(
The official translations have skirted this issue by calling the former "wyverns" and leaving the latter as dragons. But since Seisen and Thracia have no official translation, and the fan translations have stayed in the habit of using "dragon," my brain is in a weird kind of autopilot where I distinguish between them, but call them both dragons.
So basically the logic when Leaf says he hasn't seen a dragon is that he's never seen a dragon god, because they haven't been around on Jugdral since they showed up and did creepy blood rites with his ancestors way back when. When he's wondering if that dinosaur is just some other kind of dragon, he's wondering if it's some bizarre offshoot of real dragons. Because he thinks it's rather obviously not a wyvern-dragon!
In the future I will think harder about this shit before I say it because god, what the hell. I'VE NEVER SEEN A DRAGON, IT'S NOT LIKE MY SISTER HAS ONE OR ANYTHING 8Db