Were any of the first born dragon at the battle of the silvertear skys?

I know that Nidhogg did not answer midgardsormr call to battle cuz he was too full of rage to care about it but did hraesvelgr or the 2 other first born dragon that we have not seen there also? ( cant remember their names) Also of course Tiamat and Ratatoskr could not be there.

Really, apart from what was shown during Derplander's little Echo-trip in 1.0's original opening movie (which showed it), and from what has been stated in both 1.0 and ARR, the only named dragon that appeared at the Battle of Silvertear Skies was Midgardsormr himself - the other dragons that fought there were just no-names (it appears that they were mostly wyverns and aevises).

Other than that, it doesn't seem any of the First Brood ever appeared there, or if they did, they were never shown actually on screen or participating to my knowledge. Given what happened to Middy in that fight, perhaps it's just as well they didn't...

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Originally Posted by Anzyx

I know that Nidhogg did not answer midgardsormr call to battle cuz he was too full of rage to care about it but did hraesvelgr or the 2 other first born dragon that we have not seen there also? ( cant remember their names) Also of course Tiamat and Ratatoskr could not be there.

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This is one of those cases where it's tough to apply fully fleshed-out [3.0; 2016] game lore under Team Yoshida to the [1.00; 2010] release under Team Tanaka. I think (at the time) that Nidhogg didn't even have a design, just a name and a title ("The Wyrmking", which was phased out, though Midgardsormr did keep his "King of Kings" title). In that video, we saw Midgardsormr and a sky-darkening army of wyverns, and even those were a species that we'd never even seen in-game. (They're pretty close to what we now know of as vouivres today.)

To try to look at it retrospectively, Bahamut and Ratatoskr would have been dead. Tiamat would have been in self-imposed imprisonment. Nidhogg would have been asleep and too self-absorbed in his campaign. Hraesvelgr would have been apathetic towards the issue and stayed in solitude. And the other two, as far as we know, were not within flying distance at the time - not being natives of Eorzea, apparently.

That's where you run into a bit of a hiccup, though. The wyverns are confirmed to have come from Dravania. Did Hraesvelgr's brood answer the call? Or did Nidhogg's minions obey the song of the King of Kings in their master's slumbering absence? ... both?

TL;DR It doesn't appear as though any of the First Brood were there, but I couldn't tell you for sure who was or why.

I think Middy calling in a part of Nidhogg's/ Hrae's brood makes sense, unless he had forces of his own in Dravania that got decimated in the resulting battle. Keep in mind he wasn't exactly cheery with Ishgard either and was fine with letting it burn. Middy's dragonsong could have compelled some of the lesser bretheren to obey the call and go to Silvertear.