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Emotional Conversation in Dragonflight - Old Dragon Reflects on Flight's History
Dragonflight
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22/08/2022 à 02:00
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DiscordianKitty
In a side questline in Dragonflight, players have an opportunity to simply sit and admire the view, while an old dragon shares his stories about leaving the Dragon Isles, the Black Dragonflight's betrayal, and regret.
WARNING: DRAGONFLIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD!
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The Ruby Lifeshrine in the Waking Shores is home to the Red Dragonflight. This impressive area sits atop a tall peak, overlooking the Dragon Isles. It is here where players can meet Veritistrasz, a dragon with a Dwarf visage form, seated and staring silently at the view.
In a side quest, players are able to sit next to Veritistrasz. The old dragon seems to have something on his mind.
Veritistrasz says: Hmmm.
Veritistrasz mutters something under his breath.
Veritistrasz lets out a long sigh.
Veritistrasz says: Hmph.
At this point, the quest gives the player an option. You may stay and watch the view for awhile, or you may decide you are too busy.
<Sit and look at the view.>
<You are busy. Get up and leave.>
If you leave, the questline simply ends, and that's the end of that. If you stay, however, Veritistrasz begins to speak.
Veritistrasz glances at you.
Veritistrasz lets out a long sigh.
Veritistrasz says: This view, it may look beautiful to you. To me, it reminds me of how long we have been gone. I barely recognize this landscape.
Veritistrasz says: I grew up here, when it was called the Broodlands. I used to tend the Lifeshrine, so many years ago. Then we left to help safeguard the mortals...
Once again, you are given the option to leave - an option that you are consistently given throughout most of the rest of this questline. However, you are also decide to ask Veritistrasz questions. At first, the conversation is about how much has changed in the Dragon Isles, the Dragonflight's decision to leave, and what it's like to come home after such a long time.
Ask what it felt like to leave the Dragon Isles.
Veritistrasz says: The reason I am here, looking over this alien landscape, is because for such a long time... I dreamed about returning here.
Veritistrasz says: This was my home. I never expected we would be gone for so long. After a while, I never expected to return.
How does it feel to be back?
Veritistrasz says: You can probably remember where you grew up. Can smell your parents cooking, can remember playing with your friends who lived close by.
Veritistrasz says: Now imagine that you have forgotten how to get to your childhood home. You can never visit again, can never walk the paths of your childhood.
Veritistrasz says: Maybe you think me overly sentimental. You try living for ten thousand years, never being able to visit your home, finally visit it only to find it completely different, and then come back to me.
Players can agree that the Dragonflights have been away from home for a very long time (rather diplomatically, for certain older races who have lost their homes, like the Draenei), and the conversation will turn to the Dragon Wars, the war that begun when the Black Dragonflight betrayed their former allies under the leadership of Deathwing. Deathwing had been Neltharion, the Earth Warder and Black Dragon Aspect, but he fell to the corruption of the Old Gods, taking almost all of his Dragonflight with him.
Ten thousand years is a long time.
Veritistrasz says: Ten thousand years... I can barely believe it's been that long since we left.
Veritistrasz says: You can't imagine how awful that time was, the fear that surrounded us. The Sundering, the Betrayal of the black dragonflight, The Dragon Wars.
Ask about the Dragon Wars.
Veritistrasz says: The Dragon Wars... you may call it something different, but I was there, and that's what I call it. All the dragonflights versus the black dragonflight.
Veritistrasz says: You would think it would be an easy fight? Four versus One after all, even with the Demon Soul.
Veritistrasz says: The blue flight was nearly destroyed in Neltharion's initial strike, so three to one. Still great odds. Until you realize what it was like.
What do you mean?
Veritistrasz says: You only know Neltharion as Deathwing, and his brood as mad, evil beings. We knew them before they fell.
Veritistrasz says: This wasn't some unknown menace, this wasn't some great evil looming like the Legion was. These were our friends, our loved ones.
At Veritistrasz's mention of loved ones, the conversation turns to the friends he once had in the Black Dragonflight. He even mentions his best friend was part of that flight.
That sounds awful.
Veritistrasz says: It was awful, not knowing what's going on. Thinking there was something you could do to snap them out of it.
Veritistrasz says: They were my friends... and they were killing my brothers and sisters.
You had friends in the black dragonflight?
Veritistrasz says: I had many friends in that dragonflight, some as close as clutch mates. Heh, growing up we used to play pranks on the elders.
Veritistrasz says: I remember one time we coated Alexstrasza's tail in honey while she slept and ... ah.... what does it matter.
Veritistrasz says: My best friend was of the black dragonflight, we intermingled a lot, back in those days... not like now, where most flights keep to themselves.
Finally, if you ask to hear more about Veritistrasz's friend, the conversation turns to some of his most traumatizing memories... and deepest regrets.
Tell me more about your friend.
Veritistrasz says: Isn't it funny? I can't remember her name. I can remember her face, I can remember how the light bounced off her beautiful scales, but I can't remember her name.
Veritistrasz says: I can remember the horror when I came home to find her standing over the bodies of my family, practically her family.
Veritistrasz says: I can remember her gut wrenching despair as I plunged my claw into her throat, and I remember the hate in her eyes as the light went out in them... But I can't remember her name.
Veritistrasz says: I always wondered, if I had been a better friend, could I have prevented it? Did she not feel like she could come to me as she felt the corruption starting?
Veritistrasz says: Ebyssian was cleansed, there must have been something I could have done? But she didn't come to me, must have felt she couldn't talk to me about it.
Veritistrasz says: If I was a better friend... if I had told her... Oh Titans, if I had told her how I felt... Could it have gone differently?... I loved her... And I can't remember her name.
At this point, players who stay around for the full conversation are offered a new quest. Veritistrasz tells you that he's left a time capsule at the base of the Ruby Life Shrine, and asks if you will fetch it for him. As you do, you may overhear a conversation about some nearby dragons, who seem to wish he would help out with training the whelps.
Mazastrasz says: It's such a shame Veritistrasz won't help out. He grew up here, think of the things he could teach us!
Mazastrasz says: I have tried to cheer him up, but nothing seems to work. I even brought the whelps over to him, but that just made him worse!
Crystastrasza says: It's not something we can help with until he wants help. We can just be ready to provide support when he wants it.
Once you return the box to Veritistrasz, he continues to talk to you as she goes through its contents. He seems especially struck when he comes across an old letter, one that he wrote when the flights left the Dragon Isles.
Veritistrasz says: It's been so long since I left this here, I barely remember what was in it.
Veritistrasz starts looking through the time capsule.
Veritistrasz says: A pressed leaf, I'm sure I thought that was important at the time? Oh, this is an old focus for tending to the eggs, I remember this!
Veritistrasz says: There is a lot to go through here and these old bones can only take so much, I will have to check through it later. Oh.. wait... apparently I left a letter too.
Veritistrasz says: Oh Titan's... I... I barely recognize the dragon who wrote this. I was so hopeful when I left. I was so sure we could make a difference.
Veritistrasz says: What I wouldn't give to feel the smallest fraction of that again.
Veritistrasz says: Thank you, young one, you have given me some things to think about.
Finally, you can ask Veritistrasz if he will show you the letter, and he shares it willingly.
Page 1
Azeroth breaks, and the black dragonflight is attacking both dragons and the mortals. With the collapse of the Kaldorei empire, the breaking of the lands, they are close to helpless. We have been talking and we will soar to their aid.
Alexstrasza asked each of us our opinion, and we all agreed to help protect them. These times are tough for everyone, but at least us Dragons understand what is going on. They are as in the dark as when they were.
Terrible things have taken place here after the black flight turned. Staying here could end up leaving a sour taste in our mouths, and we need to be where the mortals are to protect them adequately anyway.
I am leaving this record for thsoe who come after us if we do not make it back.
Page 2
We love this land, please take care of it.
We have left a lot of our friends behind to take care of the land, treat them with respect.
Help the mortal races if we have fallen, they have incredible potential.
Do not trust the black flight if they still exist. Something has happened to them, and they are vicious murderers now.
Page 3
We go now to the mortals' aid, and potentially to our doom, but we do so in the knowledge that we can help and protect those that need it. We all have our reasons; I was not there to protect my family when they needed it. I can only hope that I can be there for others, so they do not have to feel that pain.
Live life to the fullest.
Veritistrasz
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