Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
We get this from the Fafnir fate:

"As the old saying goes: every wyrm's ending is just a voidsent wyrm's beginning. Banish this particularly vicious example, and remember that no one's to blame—except the adventurers that killed the high dragon whose dying breath summoned forth this monstrosity."
Yeah - I read this as the dying Wyrm summoned a Voidsent into its own dying body, essentially reanimating itself as a Voidsent, much like a Succubus reanimates a woman's corpse to create its host body. So, once again, only the Voidsent's spirit crosses the Void, not its body. Ahriman animate creatures' eyes to form their bodies on the source.

I think it's mentioned somewhere that a sufficiently powerful portal CAN allow Voidsent to pass bodily across the rift, but such a thing is rare enough that EVERY Voidsent we encounter on the Source can be assumed to be a Voidsent's spirit animating a Source body, unless we're explicitly told otherwise.

And yeah - unless they're explicitly confirmed to be Dragons, we can assume Hydras aren't dragons. They're dragon-like certainly, but just about any lizard can be said to be so (raptors, efts, etc).