Answers for The Alchemist

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Answers related to Act 1

Thanks Artha and Mari. First off, I want to thank you all again for your great support of the show and I'm really psyched that you all are enjoying the episode! Yes, Fira does originate from fire and to answer another question below, she was indeed a Dragon Flare. You'll have to look up your Greek Mythology to find out more on the dragon names and Kadmyss. They do have to do with some of the hidden meaning of each character but if I tell you here, you'll miss all the fun of finding out on your own! LOL


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Hi Red Dragon, Cephyiss was pinned with trapping gear and Oryon was stunned with flash sticks which Word took with him when he left. He only needed to trap one, stun the other and get away. It also parallels a bit of Moordryd's break in the initial episodes of the series, like father, like son. Think logistics, Cephyiss would be forward in the stable, with Oryon in the back on her eggs. Trap him, when she jumps up, stun her, grab an egg and run!


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It is against the Priesthood rules to use violence against another priest or student. As for the colors of the energy, the dragon mentioned (as are the dragons mainly used in the priesthood) had a lot of different breeds mixed. Connor and Word being the students they were, far advanced from Academy training even, have learned how to tune the gold draconium traces in their bones to bring forth the colors of the dragon energy that best reflect who they are. Thanks Liliwen!


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I'd prefer not to explain exactly how the priesthood works LOL - because that's for another story! But yes, like the Academy, you are living there for most of your training, much like a Buddhist monastery. There are other pupils like Connor and Word, they are more like apprentices and they are training to guard the ancient secrets of their order and prepare the world to stave off another war. The priesthood does not believe in the Academy per say, and recognizes that the very training of the Academy and the practice of the Elite Class Race is really warfare commercialized and will eventually cause another war by dividing dragons and humans and sects of draconium just as the original empires of the past did. hence Connor's speech to Kadmyss. Thanks for the question dolphinliss


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Hi arrow, thanks! Remember that Beau's original colors are red, blue and black with some white, Cephyiss is very similar to Beau but primarily red, blue and white. Oryon is the rest of the stronger colors, green, some black and some others sprinkled in. Yes, they are Elite class dragons but the important thing is that they together make up much of the same kind of dragon type that is kept within the priesthood, the remnants of the gold breed, the real chromatic dragons. I don;t want to say that much more, well, because you have to read the rest! LOL. Kaymyss os very dutiful and loyal, he's kind of like a cross between a Phistus type and a Kawake type, very green and brown in his influence but with a little Fire red thrown in. A good soldier type, just the kind the Elite Class likes. Connor sees in Kadmyss that he's a little more rebellious than the usual (red) which is why he drafted him into Penn Stables. More on his rebellious streak later...


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Good question Arthapenn. Connor is a dragon priest and in many ways an Elite Class combatant. Connor is very powerful in his ability to channel draconium and Cephyiss is a hugely powerful dragon. As for the second part of your question, as I said above, yes!


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It's quite simple and much like what turned Darth Vader, the fear of loss of control over events. Word, was never able to "let go", not a man of trust of belief, he felt humans were always destined to fail and abuse the dragon, so the only way to stop the war was to control them both. Within the priesthood, he began to secretly plot to build devices to control but black draconium is very powerful stuff, (think Armeggaddon) and it was the Black Draconium Empire that began the great war. It was simply philosophy, Connor for his own failing, never realized how key, black draconium was to stop the war and create Beau. Word, placed too much importance on it. They were both wrong. As Word grows (and in this episode) you will see some of the other events that shaped him. Thanks IbanezJFS!


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Great question Furox, thanks! The priesthood correctly realized that the way the planet, Elite Class, Street Crews and Word were evolving, that the war was close. If Connor was the one to be the Dragon Booster, he should have the amulet. Connor for a great while hoped he was the one and this episode is about that as well. Wow, I can't say too much without giving away the rest of the episode LOL. I will say this though, in this story, prophecy is less about predicting what happens and more about people that step up to make things happen according to prophesy.


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Thanks RoldGold and thanks for the question too! He was driven by his belief just as the priests believe that another war is close, it's just that he has his own ideas for stopping it, one that involves massive control! While the priests knew of Word's propensities, they were willing to give such a brilliant pupil the chance to mature into a more balanced person. He knew it was wrong, just thought it was more important than the rules. He really thought what he was doing was the best way to prevent war.


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Thanks Decephunmy! All he wanted was one egg for his experiments (Act 2 LOL). Also stealing one egg is far easier as you pointed out. As for Zulay, read on! I'm sure you'll have more questions about her after act 2!

Thank you ALL! Enjoy the rest of the episode!

Thanks Furox and thanks Rob for asking and answering my question, makes more sense now, i think.

I knew it!!!!! :lol:

Good one. :D

Yay! My question got answered! That cleared up a lot of questions that I had!

I had a misspelling there, it supposed to say word but I wrote work. Sorry about that. ^_^

Ah, another great round of Q&A. I always look forward to these. Im already looking forward to Act 2 and round 5. I can only hope and prey that Our petition will be successful with other network heads. And, picks it up where Jetix left off.

thanks Furox and Rob!

black? didn't notice

yay! :dance: i got the blue and the white right! i guess the lighter spots could be red (it's an all done in pencil) i thought that he would be mostly blue with the white stripes

so... Oryon has a rather strong build eh? that might be a bit difficult to draw

ahhh....so the one mentioned in the story isn't a black one.


anyone noticed that MG said "LOL" alot? :P

I wonder if he's referring to the black from Beau's black and gold form? :unsure:

No, not a strong build, he's referring to the stronger colors of draconium. Remember that aside from gold, the main colors are red, green, blue and black. Cephyiss has the red and blue components, so Oryon has the green and black. (And both have a mixture of some of the other colors.)

That's right. It's apparently a hybrid of some kind.

Yep. :)

Any idea when act 2 will be posted?

Just having read the story again, this makes no sense.
If they came through the door like in the first ep, then yes but they made a hole in the roof, most likley over the top of the eggs, so in theory, it would be allot harder to stop 2 dragons because both would be ready to attack at the same time.

And Burnout Beau, i hope you are not trying to say i'm dumb or anything with that remark!

I only asked the question for a simple reason in that maybe there was something else behind the scenes, maybe Word had other plans for Oryon and the eggs before the alarm was raised.

I'm not sure if I quite follow how the sequence was supposed to go either and why Oryon didn't need to be trapped. For example, it seems to me Word could've just used flash sticks on both of them. I'm not going to worry about it though. When we animate the sequence, we can do the scene however we think best.

Coming soon! :dance:

What? :faint:

No! Why should I say that?

Did Rob give us drawings to work from for this episode!? or were you talking about your own drawings Arrow?

Oh!....Nayade and Lilliwen, awesome work! I loved the wolfhound. The computer render of young word was great, Lilliwen. You can see some Mordryd in him too!

:cookie: :cookie: ^_^

i was talking about my own drawings mari

Well, we now know more stuff! I think knowing Fira has a red influence will help with her design, ne?

And both Cephyiss and Oryon are Elite class... Wait.. Does that mean they're huge? How'd they fit in the stables?!?! *is very confused* :faint:

I think you got the wrong topic, Arrow. :D

Thanks so much, Rob, for answering my questions. I am so happy! ^_^ :dance:

Now I cannot wait for Act 2! Do not forget, Zulay is carrying Moordryd at the same time.

I hope no one is going to give her a big Pyrrah-like hairdo now. ;)

I would doubt that they're fully evolved. They wouldn't fit in the stables if they were! :)

Let's assume they're only around 25% bigger than Beau at this point.

Maybe. Maybe not. Artha and Moordryd could be born up to 12 months apart and still be the same numeric age at least part of the time.

Oh yes! I want to see baby Moordryd. :D

These answers were great. Now I'm even more excited for Act 2!

Don't forget the nanny dragon. :) I want to see baby Moordryd with his nanny! :D

In that case. Let's see baby Lance, Kitt, and Parmon. Or at least younger version of them. We have all seen (By now) a teenage version of Word and Connor. Let's see the rest of the characters in a younger form.

I am sorry, but Lance is six years younger than Artha.

Answers for Act 2 Q&A

Thanks JFS, cool question. You are spot on in terms of how a nanny dragon deals with a child, it's about meg energy and basically doing the other things a nanny might do, such as watch over and protect, feed and change. The ominous note here is also that nanny dragons are NOT generally used in Dragon City by humans...they are much more common with Prophets. (people do however use nanny dragons to help actual nannies) Nanny dragons are also something out of the ancient ways and more like the priesthood, where dragons and humans are sometimes raised together. Just as Connor would raise Beau and Artha together, Word would raise Moordryd with a dragon, Decepshun. This reveals a partial answer to a question that comes later, yes, in a sense, Decepshun's "surrogate mom" took care of Moordryd too. This is more related to Word's distrust of human kind and desire to both control the dragons and also give his son an advantage over other humans. Like the opening scenes of the episode, having a nanny dragon means you have exposure to draconium mag energy very early in your life and might be better able to use it later on.

Hi Aerodragon Highlfyer, I wish I could talk more about that in more detail but some of that is in the Academy plans. The short version is that yes, there are cousins involved but I don't wanna say which side of the family they come from. That might give something away! ; ) Hope you understand. Thanks for the question!

Hi Arrow, great questions. Yes, they do start out as traditional dragon breeds but the "evolutions" that we know them as are even more than Elite Dragons; these are more like the evolved dragons used in the great Dragon Human War. The Elite transformation is only a small part of what you see in Abandonn and Tyrannis Pax, these include the evolutions that only a dragon priest could pull off. A little tidbit of fun information, Tyrannis Pax in present form was a reluctant evolution done to combat what Word had brought about with Abandonn. This is NOT the form that any dragon priest would approve of or think of trying. See a later answer below!

Thanks for the question! Cain is as you can figure, is Moordryd's baby age at this time and Cain's mom is happily off helping raise her son, which is why Cain seems a nicer dude than Moordryd in the show and also why Cain can see things to like about Moordryd that even Moordryd can't see about himself. As far as filling anything in, well, now, that's for another story! I am looking into the possibility of writing another hidden episode for you all at some point in the fall! We'll see what happens there!

Hi Arthapenn and nice question! As you can probably guess, Beau's other siblings are not quite as special as he is LOL. Can't say too much about that without giving some things away for later. As far as that street race, Connor of course would never have gotten permission to to speak to do that illegal race, so he snuck out to do it. Connor and his son Artha it seems, have a bit in common : ) I think had Fira known beforehand, she might have hit him harder than the crash! Fira, like Kitt Wann, can trace her heritage back to the Dragon Flares.

I wish I could Mari, Shining-Dragon and Nayade! Of course, you could figure that Abyll would have a little Cain in him LOL. If you imagine backwards, you'd likely find a bit of Oryon and Cephiyss in Beau, though I can tell you that Beau looks a little more like his dad. During this story, Tyrannis Pax and Abandonn are both far smaller and more like Beau and Decepshun as you know them in terms of size, through as I mentioned above, T-Pax started out more like a combination of breeds from Red, Purple and Orange! (Yes, I said Orange!) You can't leave a dragon priest alone you know LOL, they get into all kinds of trouble! As far as Zulay and Fira, we're just going to have to leave them for time being. If we get to do DB Academy, there will be more about them, and some glimpses of them, through flashbacks and such. Thanks for the question!

Hi Airshdow, thanks for the question. The answer is a sad one, she got sick and died, a form of cancer.

Thanks for the question Lancepenn. You already know that Word met Zulay on the street as Zulay was basically the leader of the Dragon Eyes Crew (A job her son Moordryd later ascended to). Fira and Connor met as Word and Zulay did, on the street. Only difference is that Word and Zulay stayed involved there while Fira and Connor moved away to Mid City to raise a family and breed dragons.

Hey Furox, great question! Word's amplifier did in fact have an effect which is a little hint about a major key to Dragon Booster. Like the force, like any great philosophy and teaching in our human history, the darker side of our personality is a huge force for us in terms of finding power through balance. Word's fundamental error of course is missing the entire aspect of human nature, (one I might add that all of you great people in the DB community have seen). Word doesn't even see the good in his own son and that his own son's power comes from the totality of forces inside of him. Remember in "Wraith Booster" just how big brotherly or even "fatherly" Moordryd could be to Lance. Moordryd has good in him just as the best of us have a little bad. What Word cannot see is his greatest failing, and it's exemplified in "The Alchemist" you have all of the colors of draconium in you, but the ones you focus on, are the ones you let define you. Recognizing them all is how Artha and Beau get their power in each DB episode. It seems that Word indeed caused himself quite a problem by trying to turn a nearly gold dragon egg totally to the forces of darkness. He filled in the part that Connor feared to, the balance of all the forces of Draconium. Just wait until Word finds out huh? LOL That's for another time of course!

Hydrag, you know you're Dragon Booster well! Word, being as distrusting of humans as he is, and feeling someplace inside that it is humans that have caused the great evil on this world, he prefers and hopes that his son's raising by a nanny dragon will both acclimate him better to dragon-kind but also show him that humans are perhaps as unnecessary as his father believes they are. Word is also hoping that the influence of draconium on his son, will give him an unfair advantage as a street crew member later in life...which is does of course. Great question!

Hahahahaha, I can't WAIT to see Word's reaction when he finds out he actually helped to create his worst enemy! :D

Another secret episode! That was unexpected...but totally drac!

So...TP and Abandonn aren't even fully evolved dragons...wow, I wonder what a fully evolved dragon is like. Funny, despite how powerful the dragons become the priests disapprove of the evolution. Then again, that transformation may make them more dangerous and make their bones a bit more unstable in much the same way that red and other colors of draconium are more dangerous and unbalanced than gold dragons. Perhaps the transformation is induced by doing something that hurt the balance in the dragons and their riders, or the balance between them that the Academy either doesn't know of or actually approves of.

It's too bad Fira got cancer. Sounds like she was way cool! Heh, she would have hit Connor harder than the crash...that would have been funny to see!

It's too bad Rob and Kevin don't have any rough ideas of the characters, but on the plus side it gives those working on the characters a bit of freedom. I vote we use Nayade's look for Abyll! Cephiyss and Oryon...perhaps Cephiyss looks like Beau without the fins and Oryon has the fins, but otherwise doesn't share Beau's looks?

Hmm...well, apparently a dragon can raise a human and the exposure the mag energy so early has an effect on the baby. I suppose having a nanny dragon around is a good thing if you want a powerful kid, or a kid more in balance/in tune with the dragons.

Can't wait to learn more about Beau's siblings, maybe even see his parents. Maybe in that other secret episode...

*gasp* Moordryd is Artha's cousin! :D ...or not. But I hope so. :P

So would that mean that Beau's siblings have some sort of role to play in the academy? :dance:

W00T! Flashbacks!

Oh, I thought Word had been the Dragon Eye leader. But it's even cooler that Zulay was.

If DB:A gets here, it looks like it'll have so many interesting plot lines and secrets...*wants it now*

actually that's how i drew cephyiss and oryon (just go look in the character designs topic)

the answer to my question helped me somewhat
now i know that T-Pax would be bipedal, and they look nothing like their evolved forms...that gives me total freedom to design! which also sucks abit

Well arrow, you at least have the hint that TP is a fusion of several biped dragons, including orange. That could give you ideas. As for Abandonn, he shouldn't be too hard. We've seen a few black dragons like Decepshun, Coershun, and the pure black dragons. You could use them for some inspiration.

Your drawings of Cephiyss and Oryon are good, and Oryon's my favorite, but there are other designs coming out still. Having those general guidelines might help the others who are designing Beau's parents. I can't wait until the designs are finished so I can get modeling!

You know Liliwen, maybe they're teachers or the dragons that choose which house the new students belong to. I can't wait to see them!

It is nice to know about Cain a bit more.

Hmmm, Beau's siblings hatched. We will have to be patient.

Well Ill be a newts uncle. Thats pretty dang interesting with all these new answers. Interesting that Arthas relatives will become a part of the next series. Not to mention flash backs of Fira and Zulay. I like being so accurate with my questions to Magna Draconis. Anywayp Ill Catch Yall Later!!!!!

*pouts* We didn't get good physical descriptions of the new characters! Just some basic outline ideas on their looks. :( *pout, pout, pout*

Oh well, whatever. At least we got answers!! I love Rob for taking all the time to explain things to us like this! ^_^

WE MUST GET DBA TO GET AIRED!! WE MUST!!! <_< I will simply die if I don't get DBA!

Rob is too nice to us. Maybe writing another hidden episode... :cookie: Rob just loves us! I seriously need to, like, find where he lives and chain myself to his door and spend all night telling him 'thank you' about a bijillion times. :lol:

So Fira and Connor met each other on the race course? That is interesting.

Very interesting. Just like Word and Zulay, Moordryd's parents.