Shadowbringers and magic

[KylePearlsand]

It's pretty likely that no dragons exist on the First Shard - or any other Shard, for that matter. All Dragons are descended from Midgardsormr, who came to this world many thousands of years ago. Prior to that, no dragons existed in the world. I'm pretty sure that Midgardsormr arrived AFTER the Shards split off from the Source, so the Shards wouldn't have their own copies of Midgardsormr, and therefore no progenitor from whom dragons could descend.

There may well be a spear-wielding job on the Source, but it would be completely detached from dragons in every way, and likely wouldn't have jumps as a central part of their arsenal (since jumping was cultivated among Dragoons to provide a way to combat flying opponents - a common danger when dealing with dragons).

More likely, I think, the Dragoon job quests will not involve the new areas, or involve them only minimally, just as the Black Mage quests did in Stormblood (only a brief section of one quest took place in a Stormblood area).

I wouldn't say it's impossible for dragons to be on the first. The Allagans were working on the Crystal tower and seem to be very successful in it's use. Xandes did have to be stopped from opening the thirteenth by Doga and Unei after all. I wouldn't be surprised if they sent dragons to other worlds for the sake of science.

[SannaR]

I thought they said that only our planet was what got sundered and everything else is still whole. So, Unless one of the two children of Midgardsormr shard hopped and kept their bodies I don't see how there would be any.

[Jandor]

I became briefly excited during the presentation that maybe the reason we'd never seen dancers (and if it exists on the Source, the Garleans should have forcibly drafted some practitioners into their armies!) was due to its being a tradition on the First.

But then they revealed you pick up the job in Limsa. sigh!

If we can go to the first then I would assume people from the first can come to the source. The Dancer trainer could have just ended up in Limsa after dimension hopping over.

[ObsidianFire]

All jobs have to start in one of the Hub Towns that can be accessed at the start of an expansion. So if it takes us a few levels to get to the 1st Shard, then no jobs can start there.

[Jonnycbad]

There were Dragons on the 13th (World of Darkness). Two-Headed and 5-Headed Dragons.




Not sure how they got there, but they're there. Either one the 2 remaining Dragons hopped dimensions and proliferated in them all, or Xande released dragons into them all.

Also, we fought Alte Roite which was a type of Dragon and it's from whichever shard Deltscape's beings came from.

Also we don't know if other Dragons survived the destruction of Dragonstar and came to Hydaelyn. We assume it was only Midgardsrmr, but maybe its like how Goku thought he, Raditz, Vegeta, and Nappa were the only Saiyins left...but then you got Broly, Turles, Tarble, etc.

[Rocl]

The two and five headed dragons are not "true" dragons, but rather hydras. Hydras, as far as we've ever been told, are Allagan creations. That is to say, they're chimeras made by Allagans to show that not even dragons were beyond their genetic tinkering.

Hydra boss FATE in Azys Lla:

Even the mighty dragons themselves were subject to the Allagan Empire's incessant tinkering with the very laws of nature─Goryshche is one such product of that imperial hubris. Aimlessly roaming the Azys Lla wastes, the multi-headed abomination silently seeks an end to five thousand years of suffering.

To call them dragons is ... wrong. It's as true as calling a pegasus a horse, an empuse an antling, etc. (These two examples being other Allagan chimeras altered from base creatures.) Given what we know of the Crystal Tower story, it's likely that Xande chucked a bunch of chimeras, clones, and what-not into the Void as part of his covenant with the Cloud of Darkness. We fight inversely-coloured enemies from Syrcus, some of which are even named such--Xande's clone, for example.

The point being, if Hydras are Allagan creations and are present in the World of Darkness (a subsection of the Void), it's likely they aren't actually native to the Void/Thirteenth, imo.

[Vexander]

Might be a bit of a strange thought, but what if each shard isn't just a single world, but an entire universe? So, each and every shard would have it's own world where Midgardsormir originated on? In some of these universe-shards, he'd go to the world that's the universe's main world.

[Vulcwen]

Might be a bit of a strange thought, but what if each shard isn't just a single world, but an entire universe? So, each and every shard would have it's own world where Midgardsormir originated on? In some of these universe-shards, he'd go to the world that's the universe's main world.

I think it was even stated at this point that the Sundering is a thing local to our planet, although other planets might also be split.

[Jandor]

I think it was even stated at this point that the Sundering is a thing local to our planet, although other planets might also be split.

I wonder what happens if you fly far enough out into space and then come back.

Slip back into your home shard or end up on the source?

[Dualgunner]

No dragons on the first, huh... that would mean the First's crystal tower serves a vastly different purpose than the Source's wouldn't it?

Our Tower was built to harness Dalamud's power iirc--that power being Bahamut's in reality, who himself is a primal born from the memories of a member of Midgardsormr's brood held by a distressed Tiamat.

No dragons, no Bahamut primal, no dalamud...so what purpose would the First's Tower serve?