I've got my own lore question, and I might as well piggyback off this thread...
...but how on Rivellon does the Red Prince's plot line actually make sense without retconning sections of both Dragon Commander and Divinity II? Its the end of the line that is the problem, because it doesn't make sense when compared to establish lore - we know dragons existed in Rivellon for a very, very long time (books through Divinity II make a point of this constantly, what with stuff like "everything we know is the dragon's bequest") and so much so that even Maxos calls Aurora ancient in DC:
Yes, she was one of the ancients, interested in the ways of the infinitely lesser creatures we nevertheless call civilised. She was intrigued by Sigurd, his war machines and his empire. It led her to his castle, to a brief spell of passion and ultimately her downfall.
...as does Corvus...
Win, yes, become rich and plump with roaring blood until now you are ready to be devoured! And once I have you bleeding and I can break the dragon's mind, your dreams I shall walk and your soul will be mine! One of the ancient line will be my Blood Servant and I will be mightier than any demon has ever been.
...as does Henry...
Still, you are a dragon, I'll give you that, and of ancient blood. Prove to me you have the rocks to do undaunted battle, and perhaps my respect may still be yours.
...and as does pretty much everyone in Divinity II. Now, one of the main things behind the Red Prince's storyline is how the Lizards used to be dragons - that's actually somewhat possible if you believe that the Dragon Commander's descendents eventually married Lizards and had children with them - and so much so that it seems hinted that the Ancient Empire is actually a stray fragment of the now defunct Empire of Rivellon.
But why are they able to
turn back into dragons, or have the Red Princess lay eggs that turn into dragons? It seems like someone at Larian wanted to make a Game of Thrones joke about the Mother of Dragons, but it comes off really strangely when you remember that Divinity!Dragons are much, much more powerful (remember, the Commander was only half dragon and was tossing around the Eye of the Patriarch as though it was candy, vaporizing armies with nuclear-esque blasts) to the point of being basically
gods in their own right if you take the mentions of their power in Divinity 2 as true, and that becomes more pointed when you realize that the events of Divinity 2 cover in detail how the last true dragons actually left Rivellon ages ago, leaving only the Patriarch as the last dragon...which shows that the Red Prince's ending can't be one of the canonical ones because it doesn't line up with the events of that game.
Huh, I think I just answered my own question with the Red Prince's line being a "what if" scenario, but we'll continue
As I was saying before, it just doesn't seem to make much sense for that to line to happen as it does; even if the prophecy is that the Red Prince and the Red Princess both have enough of the DC in them to make dragon children, this is easily...what, eleven thousand years since the events of that game? And if its by pure prophetic magic, then how the hell did it happen, considering the sheer power of true dragons? Are the children they have "false" dragons in that they have the appearance of the true kind without the power? That has to be impossible, because we know from his ending that they let him conquer other worlds or something like that.
Am I missing something somewhere? The Red Prince's quest line has got to be, by
far, the weakest of any of the origin characters storylines because it either makes no real sense or contradicts existing material, and that seems really, really strange for Larian to make that kind of mistake even if it is just a bit of ASOIAF meming on their side.
