Flight Rising Discussion

[quote name="Skogur" date="2018-03-15 07:49:37" ][b]perhaps they simply don't know that they're dead, or even an emperor even.[/b][/quote] That is exaclty what I thought when I read the lore And looks like they aren't even aware of the whole thing they are just doing. The Emperor's POV makes me think they are just enjoying the [s]after[/s]life and having fun and peace with their siblings. ... ... It's kinda sad, tbh

[quote name="CrazyRedFire" date="2018-03-15 07:47:44" ] Well this gave us insight into the mind of an emperor which is pretty interesting tbh [/quote] Yeah, apparently emperors still HAVE minds, which is interesting [s]oh god the emperor in my Pinkerlocke that contained an old friend of the dragons it was fighting[/s]

Who was that person, who dared to put a pun in title? >_>

[quote name="Pandacow" date="2018-03-15 07:55:13" ] Huh, so Emperors *do* have a consciousness.. it’s just very simple. Most of the memory has been wiped (they described buildings as “pathetic stone structures”), besides the memory of each other. They seem to refer a lot to their hatchling days.. I wonder if the middle head has the most intelligence. It kinda seemed that way, considering the other heads were so.. clumsy, and just cared about food. Lesson of the story? Emperors are actually gigantic apocalypse hatchlings. [/quote] Yeah. You know, I wonder if they weren’t actually siblings and them thinking they’re siblings was a byproduct of their memories being wiped? I mean, the end seems to indicate that they’re in three different flights.

I really loved this story. Knowing Emperors have a mind -- even if it's just a shadow of what the dragon used to be -- makes them even scarier. It means they can think (some of) their actions through, somehow.

It looks like they don't realize what's happening, so I imagine they're detached from reality as if they were dreaming. From their perspective, things look different. I doubt they even realize the horrors they are committing...

ow

[quote name="Demesne" date="2018-03-15 08:03:18" ] Emperors are apex predators that don't recognize what dragons are. I'm possibly too excited to learn they can think and feel, rather than being absolutely mindless like the Imperial Encyclopedia entry stated. At least, this one particular Emperor has at least one semi-working mind in it. They seem to recognize the other two parts of them as 'siblings'. Though I have to wonder if they're possibly confused on even that part? Their memories of their own past are a bit foggy, can't really blame them though, being undead and all. [/quote] Also remember that the entry could be from the perspective of dragons. I know that it's more meta-data-y then that, but... even though the Emperor had a "mind" it was a simple mind (likely from a brain that was damaged/rotting). It could be that each head perceives the world very differently too, from the reactions the middle head suggested the other two were acting out. One was more angry, the other kinda of... just... zombie like. Nom nom, flop-around.

Unless the parents had a clutch in one flight, traveled to another flight, had another clutch, traveled to a third, had a clutch there and all three of these hatchlings came together to die suddenly at their "family reunion", these dragons probably aren't actually related.

I don't even know if hatchlings from different clutches would even consider themselves full siblings rather than half-siblings or second-siblings or clutch-siblings. Not to mention how messy it could be if they didn't all come from the same pair.