Lovely job as usual Sounssy, though I have my doubts about the availability of the "blood of the dragon" being exclusive to the Azure Dragoon.
Mostly this comes from confounding evidence from the most recent Hildebrand quest and the self same quote about the drachen mail that you have used and the Lore Book.
The Lore Book states that for the move "Blood of the Dragon" it specifically mentions the Azure Dragoon.
However, the Limit Break 3, Dragon Song Dive, uses Dragoon but states that it entreats the "dragon within"
This is furthered by the fact you have one of the Grand Sers in Hildebrand (it is a Hildebrand quest after all so grain of salt?) use specifically, Dragonsong Dive twice.
Furthermore, The Drachen Mail is plural, there is more than one, all built the same way. This is assumed to be the same way because the final Dragoon trial involves you taking pieces from previous deceased Dragoons.Â
This leads to several interpretations.
A) The trial is highly ritualized and so the armor retrieved is a special set specifically for you the new Azure Dragoon
B) All armor is made the same, regardless of whether or not the blood magicks at work are accessible to the layman's Dragoon or not
C) The armor is made the same because regular Dragoons can access the dragon within and can benefit from the magicks.
A seems logical, we have a fuzzy timeline(no idea how long it takes between discovery and the final trial) and despite being the first time 2 Azure Dragoons exist at the same time a new set of armor could be commissioned in time and given to the WOL
B seems highly wasteful, especially for a nation at war for 1000 years, unless Ishgard expects their Azure Dragoon to be looting fellow Dragoon corpses like some sort of armor cannibal. Or doing the method of soaking in dragon blood has additional merits besides unchaining the beast.
C Most logical to me and the most permissive for flexible rp, it is what I would like to be true but it may not be. And easily hand waves things like the Hildebrand inconsistency.
And minor addendum to the blood curse, it does have to be highly magicked but it can be given to someone forcefully.Â
Heustienne was force fed dragon's blood by heretics, the same sort that transforms Ishgardians. Assuming she is indeed afflicted by the blood curse, she claims to be feeling the urge to turn but fights it. Thus showing someone with extreme will power can fight the transformation though Alberic implies that she is eventually doomed. Thus the reason why she leaves behind her armor and leaves Ishgard under the guise that she died in combat.
Mostly this comes from confounding evidence from the most recent Hildebrand quest and the self same quote about the drachen mail that you have used and the Lore Book.
The Lore Book states that for the move "Blood of the Dragon" it specifically mentions the Azure Dragoon.
However, the Limit Break 3, Dragon Song Dive, uses Dragoon but states that it entreats the "dragon within"
This is furthered by the fact you have one of the Grand Sers in Hildebrand (it is a Hildebrand quest after all so grain of salt?) use specifically, Dragonsong Dive twice.
Furthermore, The Drachen Mail is plural, there is more than one, all built the same way. This is assumed to be the same way because the final Dragoon trial involves you taking pieces from previous deceased Dragoons.Â
This leads to several interpretations.
A) The trial is highly ritualized and so the armor retrieved is a special set specifically for you the new Azure Dragoon
B) All armor is made the same, regardless of whether or not the blood magicks at work are accessible to the layman's Dragoon or not
C) The armor is made the same because regular Dragoons can access the dragon within and can benefit from the magicks.
A seems logical, we have a fuzzy timeline(no idea how long it takes between discovery and the final trial) and despite being the first time 2 Azure Dragoons exist at the same time a new set of armor could be commissioned in time and given to the WOL
B seems highly wasteful, especially for a nation at war for 1000 years, unless Ishgard expects their Azure Dragoon to be looting fellow Dragoon corpses like some sort of armor cannibal. Or doing the method of soaking in dragon blood has additional merits besides unchaining the beast.
C Most logical to me and the most permissive for flexible rp, it is what I would like to be true but it may not be. And easily hand waves things like the Hildebrand inconsistency.
And minor addendum to the blood curse, it does have to be highly magicked but it can be given to someone forcefully.Â
Heustienne was force fed dragon's blood by heretics, the same sort that transforms Ishgardians. Assuming she is indeed afflicted by the blood curse, she claims to be feeling the urge to turn but fights it. Thus showing someone with extreme will power can fight the transformation though Alberic implies that she is eventually doomed. Thus the reason why she leaves behind her armor and leaves Ishgard under the guise that she died in combat.
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