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[valeriefauxnom]

Dragalia's Knights of Glory art

Now, it's been gone over how Dragalia Lost actually used quite a bit of inspiration from one of Cygames' previous works, Knights of Glory, for anything from character designs to dragons.

Of course, this showed up quite literally with characters like Lea when they quite literally just had the "Knights of Glory" showcase, but it also showed up in characters ranging from Jakob to Mikoto to Jurota (also showcasing the alighting butterfly blade, also in Dragalia):

However funny it is to see who we came to know as different characters in a different media, though, the dragons are 10x funnier to look at.

You see, it seemed that Knights of Glory had a certain 'evolution system' to dragons, where they'd develop and grow more fancy, if they weren't inexplicably transforming into an attractive humanoid woman because of course-

And oh boy, we can kinda see alternative evolutionary paths for the Greatwyrms.

There's Midgardsormr, who seems to most closely resemble the fully evolved form from the start...(he also gained an element, as this dragon line apparently has no element!)

Mercury, who is in her middle phase:

Imagine a hydra Mercury!

...Brunhilda? Not very sure on this one. She might just be a new design, but here's my best guess for what dragon they might have been inspired from:

Of course, in her 'final form' if this was a dragon they used as inspiration.

Jupiter, whom I'd almost put in his middle stage for closeness of design:

Last but not least, poor Zodiark, who really got hammered with the skeletal dragon design and is also in his middle stage and is also drooling 24/7:

Where is his stomach? Where are his organs? Why is he bipedal?? He lost some bulk in his transition to Dragalia, too. Honestly, I like Dragalia Zodiark more than his inspiration here.

That's enough of full evolutionary trees for now, though.

Some other funny ones to me include:

-Silke turning into a skeletal horse on her final evolution:

-Baby Leviathan going :-D all the time:

-Baby Poseidon (honestly a lot of the babies are funny since we only knew their final forms, typically);

-Possibly Cat Sìth inspiration???

-Baby Zephyr:

-Baby Nidhogg, sitting all prim and proper and ready to watch Euden die still:

-Teenage...Satan? Having a evil little :) face going on there...

Speaking of, quite a few of the dragons were actually repurposed into bosses, as with Satan above, like everyone's favorite:

(We must not let Phraeganoth be revived! ...Until Bondforged Zethia's story, at least).

Might be a stretch here, but maaaaaybe a bit of Kai Yan in here?

The Hypnos/Thanatos/Mega Monarch Emile line's general design:

This is getting long enough as it is, but if you want to see a mix of some old with a lot of new art that they might have used as inspiration for more dragons/adventurers, here's the link I used to the collections of KoG artwork that people were able to preserve:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DragaliaLost/comments/9rtlnz/knights_of_glory_albums/

Hopefully you find it just as interesting and funny as I did perusing the old art!

[dragaliamini]

#163 Thank you Everyone!

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And with that we have come to the end of Dragalia Minis. It has been an honor sharing these with you guys. May Dragalia live on in our hearts and one day we will meet again ~ HazeintheDaze

Mini Dragon Identifier:

Left to right 1st row: Uranus, Zephyr, Nidhogg, Thor 2nd: Chtonius, Mars, Poseidon, Jeanne d'Arc, Agni, Cat Sith, Chronos Nyx 3rd: Zephyr Imp, Hikage, Jupiter, Mercury, Midgardsormr, Brunhilda, Zodiark, Cinder Drake

Basically the first set of 5 star dragons: Poseidon, Jeanne, Agni, Nidhogg, Zephyr Sibling Gala Dragons: Mars, Cat Sith, Thor, Uranus Great Wyrms: you know them + Chtonius 3 star Dragons one of each kind: Zephyr Imp, Hikage, Cinder Drake

[halidom-confessions]

All Five Reborn Dragons: Turn on your location, Phares. We just want to “TALK”.

I smell a rematch coming…

[claitea]

looking for a little help: theres a free dream summon voucher in the rewards for the new raid event, do i use it to get summer cleo or gaibhne and creidhne? for me they're the only two worth considering. is it better for me to get cleo for her ss or gnc?

[murasaki-murasame]

Since there’s both a free daily tenfold event coming soon, along with the lucky letter rewards and stuff, and since my stash was up to 340 summons already, I decided to be extremely stupid and see if I could get Gala Zephyr and still have enough left over to spark Seimei.

Anyway long story short I at least got Zephyr after 90 summons, so I guess it worked out, but things were looking REALLY close to going badly for me on this banner, lol.

Also on the note of Seimei, all of the new zodiac units look extremely good [including Doman, even though he’s probably just an NPC]. It really sucks that they’re doing this as a two-part banner, but I mostly just want Seimei and Gozu Tenno, and they’ll probably be on the first banner together.

[tokiro07]

Me: *trying to roll Gala Poseidon*

*doesn't get him*

POSEIDON!

What do you want?!

Poseidon: I

Want

You

To

Suffer

Much

More

Me, out of Wyrmite: I have nothing left!

All I have left is my life!!!

[saeraas]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO

[shitdragalialostsay]

[fiannalover]

Man, Leviathan and Cupid sure are looking weird today

[redwylde]

My boy Thaniel is almost finished and I’m ridiculously happy about it~

I just need to unlock the last 4 nodes on his mana circle and MUB Poseidon and he’s done!~

[dreamshadows-art]

I hope everyone had a fantastic and safe New Year! Here are some quick Dragalia sketches—more silly comics coming soon! And maybe some other special things...

[betaskye]

Hi my name’s Aaron, and my only redeeming quality is my absurd beginner’s luck

[dragaliamini]

#85 Back pain has healed

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#17 for reference below:

It’s cool to see how much the artist and I changed over the past 68 comics

Alas... i feel like I’m getting...well annoyed and reluctant at doing these translations. The sinking feeling of putting in a lot of effort but it is not really recognized... I hope it goes away

[halidom-confessions]

Anyone else tired of the reborn dragons appearing briefly in the story quest and then vanishing? It’s not cool anymore. The first time with Elisanne and Poseidon was great, and it felt impactful with Elly resigning as Grand Paladyn and following Euden without hesitation. Now it’s just, boop here’s a reborn dragon. k thnx baaiii

I’m so glad that this should be the last time. Though it makes me wonder what other gala dragons they’ll make and plop into the story randomly

[claitea]

i don't care if they're good or not, Give Me Them Now

[murasaki-murasame]

After a surprise five-day extension, the free anniversary tenfolds are finally over, so now I can give my update on what I’ve gotten since the Gala Alex rerun banner.

TL;DR: I might be dumb, but I am also incredibly stupid :’)

Just as a disclaimer I am absolutely not gonna be able to remember 100% of what I got, especially when it comes to dragons, so this probably isn’t a complete list, lol.

Anyway, after the banner where I got Gala Alex, we had the Stirring Shadows banner, which I only did free tenfolds on since I already had literally everyone on the banner to begin with. I think the only things i got were a dupe Akasha and a dupe Nyarly [who I already had MUB].

After that we got the Valentines rerun, which also didn’t interest me that much since the only unit I was missing from it was V-Hilde, who I don’t care about that much. I think the only thing my free summons got me was a dupe Epimetheus, who was enough for me to get him MUB, but then I spent an extra ten summons afterward since I wanted to break my pity rate and all I got was a dupe Vayu, who I already had MUB, lol.

Then we got the Gala Poseidon and Lapis banner, which is basically where my entire life started to fall apart, lmao. Not immediately, though. I did my dream summon around the start of the banner since it was going to end, and I decided to get Mitsuba. I was basically torn between her and Yurius, mainly since my list of characters I wanted to dream summon was pretty small, but I decided to go with Mitsuba since I already use Pipple all the time and it’s a hassle to use people with the same weapon type in the same team even if they use different equipment, so that was a strike against Yurius. I know there were some limited units on the dream summon, but I already have Ieyasu, Marishiten, and DY-Jeanne, and I don’t really care about H-Elly or DY-Cleo at all.

Then like a day or two after that I got Yurius [and a dupe Jiang Ziya] from a free tenfold, lmao. I was slightly regretting getting Mitsuba by that point since I still wanted to get Yurius eventually, but I guess everything worked out just fine. Sadly I dunno if it’d even be worth building him up and using him anywhere, considering that I have so many good water units built up already, but oh well. And as a fun fact, he was the only non-limited wand unit who I was missing, so that’s neat.

After that I honestly can’t remember if I got anything from the rest of my free tenfolds. I might have gotten a 5-star from my last one, but I dunno. Either way all I can say is that I didn’t have Gala Poseidon or Lapis by the end of my free summons, and I figured that I had a good stash of 300 summons saved, so I could afford to try and chase after Poseidon a bit. I know he’s not even that great, but still.

Let’s just say that I had to redeem 300 wyrmsigils to get my one and only copy of Gala Poseidon, lol. It was a nightmare. I should probably deeply regret my life choices right now, but honestly I can probably still save up a spark by the time the New Years banner comes around, even if it’d mean skipping Christmas [which I was planning to skip anyway] and Gala Leonidas [who I don’t care about quite as much as most people].

There’s a lot to go through so let’s just run through the list, which should do a good job of illustrating the emotional rollercoaster this goddamn banner took me through.

Dupes:

-the JZ dupe I mentioned before

-Gala Alex [I just remembered that I specifically got her from my final free tenfold summon. Thankfully I only had to spend like 60 summons on her rerun banner to get her, but I still had to just spend a moment staring into the distance after this one]

-Yaten

-Like two or three copies of Zephyr [who I already had MUB]

-C-Phoenix [who I think is now at 2 or 3UB]

-Andromeda [who’s now MUB]

-Shinobi [now I have two separate MUB copies of him, lmao]

-Cerberus [who I already had MUB]

-Apollo [who’s now at 1UB]

-Two copies of Agni [who I already had MUB, and also I got these both in the same tenfold, just to rub salt into the wound]

-Kamuy [who’s now at 1UB]

-I might have gotten a copy of Siren??? If I did, she was already MUB, lol

-Hastur [who’s now at 1UB]

-P-Siren [who’s now at 2UB, I think]

-Another Nyarly dupe [now I have two random copies sitting in my inventory]

So basically I got surprisingly few dupe adventurers [relative to how many summons I did across this whole banner], but after a while the dupe dragons started to just blur together and I could feel my body slowly escaping from this mortal plane. I got pretty lucky with the first three gala dragons, but oh boy this one just absolutely refused to come home. At least I was able to spark him, and I immediately used stones on him, but I’m not very happy about it, lol. At least I didn’t get any dupes of OG Poseidon, which would have absolutely driven me insane at this point. He’s still on my shit list after that time I got like three copies of him in the same gala banner.

And then for the new stuff [aside from G-Poseidon]:

-the Yurius I mentioned before

-Yukata Cassandra [I think she was like third place on my list of dream summon candidates, so this was nice]

-Delphi [it took this dude so fucking long to show up that now I don’t even know if I have any use for him, lmao. I’ve been wanting him for over a year though]

-Lazry [I don’t really care much about her, but it’s nice to have her in my collection]

-Ilia [*looks into the camera like I’m in The Office*]

It’s a smaller list than the infinite pile of dupes I got, but all things considered this is a really high number of new adventurers to get from just one banner. I think now I’m down to only ten or eleven non-limited characters that I’m missing [aside from Opera Karina]. I’ve known for a while that water and shadow were the two elements I’m missing the most characters in, but I’ve gotten a surprising amount of them lately. I got Yurius and Lazry from this banner, Mitsuba from the dream summon, and Catherine from the Gala Alex rerun banner. I wish I had gotten Lapis too, but oh well. I think she and Pinon are now the only non-limited water units I’m missing. And on the other hand, even though I got Delphi from this banner, shadow’s still the element I’m missing the most units from, since I don’t have Linnea, Nevin, S-Patia, Forte, or S-Verica, and soon enough Opera Karina will be on that list too.

It would be nice to get Gala Leonidas, but at this point I’m probably gonna have to just stick to hoarding until New Years, since I have basically zero summons left over at this point, and New Years has always been my main priority for sparking. Hopefully I can get that many summons over the next two months, but I’m a bit worried after how few summons some of these recent events have been giving. At the very least I still have a shit-ton of adventurer stories to go through, and I’m not above doing a free tenfolds with diamantium if I need to.

So on the one hand, I spent absolutely way more summons than I should have just to get a gala dragon who’s probably not even worth getting [why are his attack mods so low . . . Cygames why . . . . Cygames explain this ;_;], but on the OTHER hand, I got five new adventurers [plus Mitsuba from the dream summon], which includes several who I’ve been wanting to get for a while, so I’m happy about that. I’m still probably gonna end up regretting this immensely once Gala Leonidas comes out and I don’t have enough summons to justify chasing him, though, lol. I can’t exactly promise that I won’t end up just giving in and chasing him anyway, but I do really want to be able to spark on New Years, since zodiac units are much more limited than gala ones.

And on that note, we should be getting a rerun of the Mitsuhide banner this month, but I don’t really care about that much anyway. I’m still missing Daikokuten and Nobunaga, but I’m not interested enough in either of them to justify chasing them at this time of year. I’d rather just save for the new zodiac units instead.