The First Brood and end game Endwalker spoilers ahead....

So, what we know so far,

Bahamut: Dead...may he rest in peace.

Tiamat: Out and about...chilling with her new found freedom...going to take care of her brood...and maybe the remainder of her beloved? Maybe we'll see her in Meracydia?

Hraesvelgr: Tired form the Dragonsong war, likely off somewhere contemplating...chilling. Was that him we saw flying past Ishgard in one of the final cut scenes?

Nidhogg: Dead...may he rest in peace at last....

Ratatoskr: Dead, murdered...this being the cause of the Dragonsong war. May she rest in peace.

Vrtra: Ruler of Radz-at-Han. Cool bro, off to do secret things eith Estinien...what can they be upto!?

Azdaja: Location unknown...possible in Meracydia? Will we see this brother/sister eventually? Remained silent during Endwalker and Dragonsong war...curious...in the New World?


Thoughts?

Really thought we'd see more Tiamat in Endwalker...we freed her...she was even voice acted(sort of?) I do hope we see her in the future?

That's probably it. Given what we now know about their star, their attempts at going to other stars to be destroyed, and finally coming to ours...

Can you imagine the love Hydaelyn must have gave to Midgardsormr and had for them all? As Venat she knew what was happening acorss the universe from Meteion, she heard the reports of the hopelessness of other stars and so when Midgard came to her, I can just imagine it was instantly with open arms to accept a race of beings who were devoid of hope and had nowhere else to turn because of what was unleashed from her very own home.

Then the war where they were once again devoid of hope to finally make amends and allow this race that was near extinction to finally have a chance to repopulate. (much like IRL conservation efforts for species).

I don't know, it makes Midgard knowing Hydaelyn and making a deal with her so much more powerful, in that we now know Venat's personality and history, and the dragons exodus.

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Originally Posted by Nekaru_Infitima

That's probably it. Given what we now know about their star, their attempts at going to other starts to be destroyed, and finally coming to ours...

Can you imagine the love Hydaelyn must have gave to Midgardsormr and had for them all? As Venat she knew what was happening acorss the universe from Meteion, she heard the reports of the hopelessness of other stars and so when Midgard came to her, I can just imagine it was instantly with open arms to accept a race of beings who were devoid of hope and had nowhere else to turn because of what was unleashed from her very own home.

Then the war where they were once again devoid of hope to finally make amends and allow this race that was near extinction to finally have a chance to repopulate. (much like IRL conservation efforts for species).

I don't know, it makes Midgard knowing Hydaelyn and making a deal with her so much more powerful, in that we now know Venat's personality and history, and the dragons exodus.

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You know...I never thought about it like that.

This makes their connection and the Content we had during the Dragonsong war and Midgardsormr even that much more powerful.

I am wondering something about Azdaja: would the other members of the First Brood know if he died? Like, are they telepathically connected to the point where they can tell one of the proverbial telephone lines is straight-up dead? Because my immediate assumption about Azdaja's silence is 'dead and they don't know it', but is that plausible?

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Originally Posted by Cleretic

I am wondering something about Azdaja: would the other members of the First Brood know if he died? Like, are they telepathically connected to the point where they can tell one of the proverbial telephone lines is straight-up dead? Because my immediate assumption about Azdaja's silence is 'dead and they don't know it', but is that plausible?

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I'm getting the impression the Azdaja is a loner and doesn't want anything to do with the affairs of the other races, I doubt they'd be killed offscreen.

I also feel like Azdaja will be a girl. Just for balance reasons I feel like the team would rather the First Brood be four boys and three girls vs two girls and 5 boys.

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Originally Posted by Slatersev

I also feel like Azdaja will be a girl. Just for balance reasons I feel like the team would rather the First Brood be four boys and three girls vs two girls and 5 boys.

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I hope we get to meet this Dragon, not just because I love Dragons but I feel like we're not finished with the Story of the First Brood.

We had a hint with what happened with the Primals in Endwalker...now apply that to Bahamut and I just get EXCITED.

My money is on Azdaja being in the New World, since it's the only dragon not met and there's no area more untouched than the New World, with its various tribes (as seen in the BLU questline).

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

My money is on Azdaja being in the New World, since it's the only dragon not met and there's no area more untouched than the New World, with its various tribes (as seen in the BLU questline).

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We don't know a lot about Mercadya other than what we learned in raid content about the War between Alag, and that being where Bahamut used to chill. So Azdaja could be there? But I'm thinking New World as well...

Azdaja could be in Meracydia but I think if she were she would have been mentioned alongside Bahamut and Tiamat. I'd bet on the New World too.

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Originally Posted by Hayden

I hope we get to meet this Dragon, not just because I love Dragons but I feel like we're not finished with the Story of the First Brood.

We had a hint with what happened with the Primals in Endwalker...now apply that to Bahamut and I just get EXCITED.

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That would be an insult to Bahamut though and something Tiamat would not be pleased by.

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Originally Posted by thegreatonemal

That would be an insult to Bahamut though and something Tiamat would not be pleased by.

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I don't assume she'd be very happy about it at all, no.

At first I thought Azdaja would be somewhere in the New World, too, but someone suggested Azdaja could have somehow made it/accidentally transferred to one of the other Shards that we haven't heard about it, which, if eventually in some much later expac (best for a Raid series) would make for a cool plot twist

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Originally Posted by JeanneOrnitier

Azdaja could be in Meracydia but I think if she were she would have been mentioned alongside Bahamut and Tiamat. I'd bet on the New World too.

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Neither Bahamut nor Tiamat have been on Meracydia for 6000 years, which is enough time for another to move in, and possibly a leaderless and defeated dragon population who needs the guiding claw of a great wyrm.

I have a feeling Azdaja is going to be wherever the writers decide to send us regardless. This game’s plot has a tendency to write the lore rather than the other way around anyway.

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Originally Posted by Denishia

At first I thought Azdaja would be somewhere in the New World, too, but someone suggested Azdaja could have somehow made it/accidentally transferred to one of the other Shards that we haven't heard about it, which, if eventually in some much later expac (best for a Raid series) would make for a cool plot twist

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Where is that suggested? I’ve heard of people say that the large eggs on the First could have been dragon eggs, but I thought it was heavily implied it was the invisible dinosaurs from the DoL role quests.

Not the First, we know the creatures there aren't related to the First Brood. I want to say it was reddit, but I don't remember. I agree that Azdaja will show up wherever the plot goes next and could use them, but that I hadn't considered one of the other Shards now feels like an oversight.

I could well-imagine the raid questline for 7.0 involving dealing with one of the AWOL Sundered Ascians who was prepping a Shard for a Calamity and is now twiddling their thumbs and causing mischief because the endgame of their bosses is no more, and during this raid we gain as our main ally Azdaja, who chased this Ascian into the Rift and into the Shard, accidentally stranding themselves and therefore placing themselves as the Shard's protector as a miniature copy of Midgarsormr.

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Originally Posted by Denishia

I could well-imagine the raid questline for 7.0 involving dealing with one of the AWOL Sundered Ascians who was prepping a Shard for a Calamity and is now twiddling their thumbs and causing mischief because the endgame of their bosses is no more, and during this raid we gain as our main ally Azdaja, who chased this Ascian into the Rift and into the Shard, accidentally stranding themselves and therefore placing themselves as the Shard's protector as a miniature copy of Midgarsormr.

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It’s off on a tangent but I was hoping that EW would at least mention the AWOL Ascians.

Instead, it seems like they were quietly disposed of off-screen. During the last scene with Hydaelyn, she mentions that she’s now the “last of her kind” which I understood to mean the last Ancient. Though I hope to be proven wrong.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

It’s off on a tangent but I was hoping that EW would at least mention the AWOL Ascians.

Instead, it seems like they were quietly disposed of off-screen. During the last scene with Hydaelyn, she mentions that she’s now the “last of her kind” which I understood to mean the last Ancient. Though I hope to be proven wrong.

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I have a feeling they purposefully left a loophole there with Sundered/Unsundered just in case they want to softly 'retcon' to have a ready antagonist later.

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Originally Posted by Nekaru_Infitima

That's probably it. Given what we now know about their star, their attempts at going to other stars to be destroyed, and finally coming to ours...

Can you imagine the love Hydaelyn must have gave to Midgardsormr and had for them all? As Venat she knew what was happening acorss the universe from Meteion, she heard the reports of the hopelessness of other stars and so when Midgard came to her, I can just imagine it was instantly with open arms to accept a race of beings who were devoid of hope and had nowhere else to turn because of what was unleashed from her very own home.

Then the war where they were once again devoid of hope to finally make amends and allow this race that was near extinction to finally have a chance to repopulate. (much like IRL conservation efforts for species).

I don't know, it makes Midgard knowing Hydaelyn and making a deal with her so much more powerful, in that we now know Venat's personality and history, and the dragons exodus.

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If I’m not mistaken, weren’t the dragons wiped out by the Omicrons and not the Final Days?

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Originally Posted by Lium

If I’m not mistaken, weren’t the dragons wiped out by the Omicrons and not the Final Days?

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Spoiler /10char

Considering the fact there are dragons in Ultima Thule, there must’ve been a few remaining wallowing in despair by the time Meteion showed up and she probably just delivered the coup de grace. They would have died off without her anyway since their eggs weren’t able to thrive any longer on their own planet.

But you don’t wind up in her collection if she didn’t have a hand in your final demise and the echos in Ultima Thule are what the people were like when she met them. The Nekropolis is empty because those people were already dead when she arrived.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

Spoiler /10char

Considering the fact there are dragons in Ultima Thule, there must’ve been a few remaining wallowing in despair by the time Meteion showed up and she probably just delivered the coup de grace. They would have died off without her anyway since their eggs weren’t able to thrive any longer on their own planet.

But you don’t wind up in her collection if she didn’t have a hand in your final demise and the echos in Ultima Thule are what the people were like when she met them. The Nekropolis is empty because those people were already dead when she arrived.

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Not exactly

I seem to remember that it was mentioned she spoke to spirits and souls as well. Nekropolis, people just *vanished* like that, no trace left, no memory left to track. A whole civilization gone in an instant

With Vrtra's name being a reference to Vedic mythology and him being found on Thavnair, an India-inspired location, I propose Azdaja's name can give us a pretty good hint to their whereabouts. Azdaja is a name from Slavic mythology and there are quite a few Slavic inspired foods in Ilsabard/Garlemald. Also "Eblan Rime" ,a name from the native peoples of that region that the Garleans kept, is Russian.


So I predict Azdaja will be found hiding somewhere in the cloudy mist that is the rest of Ilsabard. Do we know anymore about the floating islands above Garlemald on the map?