Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
That really makes it seem like Ascians were poisoning Nidhoggs ear, rather than Thordan I, if he was pretty much spouting word-for-word the same sort of rhetoric Emet threw our way... Certainly nothing definitive there, but it's not like it's unheard of for Dragons to buy into Ascians words during hard times, and I do somewhat love the idea of Emet opting to throw a Dragon motif on his crown, not in some traditional sense of symbolism for great beasts (in reality we do that with things like Lions, fantasy setting substitutes Dragons), but as more of a vindictive nod to how completely and utterly he has played them over the eras... They are, after all, aliens to his star... I can see the Ascians taking their continued occupation rather personally...
I saw it more as showing parallels between Emet-Selch and Nidhogg: unsundered beings that viewed the sundered mortals as "weak".