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**Alternate Universes and Divergent Timelines -A brief explanation-**
It appears that many people are confused with the happenings in the DOD1.3 version of events, how characters we used to know very well are now almost completely different people. This is the whole point with alternate universes / timelines. People grow and develop according to the experiences they endure. If these experiences change, so do the people, and thusly, so does the future.
DOD3 was never meant to have happened in the original DOD1 universe. But the existence of the flower came to be in one universe / timeline…which therefore created an entirely new future of events: DOD1.3. Here, we still see many of the same characters, but they have different pasts, experienced different things, and are therefore somewhat—if not entirely—different from the characters we used to know.
Please click below to view more detailed—and spoilerish—information on these images. I have yet to read some of these chapters, so I will update with more detailed information on each image soon.
Image #1 – “The Crimson Dragon”
Caim and Angel
Image #2 – “The World Two Years Later”
Baby dragon, chained and collared, with the Black Dragon looking on from a cage behind. This story is about a young 16 year old who works for a ruthless governor. He is in charge of the care of captured dragons and he personally tended to a newly caught baby dragon. He bathed it, cleaning its filthy scales and body oder, and often played with the little one.
Then one day, he’s told to chain the beast and bring it to onto the stage in the banquet hall. He notices that the guests sitting at the tables have empty plates before them. Then the governor hands him a sword and informs him that they are to dine on dragon brains that evening, and the keeper must dispatch the beast. At first the boy is hesitant—he doesn’t want to kill the little thing he had cared for.
But then the governor threatens to fire him. For seven years, since the age of 9, he had worked for the governor and therefore was able to survive. But at the thought of losing his job, he believed he had no other choice (losing one’s job at this time was the same as handing out a death sentence). The keeper raises the blade and slashes at the baby dragon’s neck. It was a feeble blow, only causing the beast intense discomfort and blood loss. While profusely apologising to the dragon, the keeper strikes again and again, but dragons have an incredibly strong life force. Beginning to squirm and shriek in agony, the dragon tried to pull at its bonds.
Impatient at the keeper’s incompetence, the governor steps forward and takes the blade from the keeper’s hand. He slashes and cuts off the dragon’s head, but it’s heart continues to beat, spilling blood all over the stage. Lastly, the governor stabs the blade right through the dragon’s heart, finally ending its long trial of pain.
But, with the baby dragon dead, an explosion suddenly echoes through the halls. At first they think the Empire’s army has once again advanced upon them… but it turns out it’s the Black Dragon. It escaped from its cage and was now exacting its revenge upon everyone. Out of utter fear and panic, the keeper pleads the dragon for mercy, since he was the one who had also cared for it as well… but there shall be no mercy. The Black Dragon sets the keeper aflame before raising his eyes to see dragons freely flying in the sky.
Image #3: ”The Truly Diseased”
Leonard & Arioch
Image #4: ”Little Sister”
Furiae & the Silver Dragon
Reading the end of the “Little Sister” chapter, we see Furiae riding on a SILVER DRAGON, chasing after Caim on the RED DRAGON. Furiae keeps yelling after him to look at her (Nii-sama Nii-sama!! nee Nii-sama!!!) but neither Caim nor Angelus turn to glance at her. Eventually, Caim gives the word, and Angelus sets them both on fire to crash and burn to the ground.
Image #5: ”A Ending”
Angel Angelus
The next chapter “The Land of Dragons” is quite interesting how it ties in with events before and leading to DOD1 (probably around the time of Shi ni Itaru Aka). It opens up with a scene with Seere and Manah… but apparently their mother had just been killed by the army of the Empire. Manah is talking to her *dead* mother while squishing her cheek against her mother’s face… Only problem is, she nothing is left of her body below the neck. Seere simply looks on in horror.
Eventually, the twins are found by the remaining survivors of their army and escape the Holy Capital. The so-called DEMONIC DRAGON is spotted flying in the sky nearby, but it seemingly didn’t see them and flew away.
After a month of traveling, everyone is exhausted. There’s a moment where Seere’s thinking about how the only thing he ever wanted was to have ALL of his mother’s love and not share any of it with his little sister. He was actually somewhat pleased when their mother died, because along with her also died that half of his mother’s love that was given to Manah. He also thinks about how his mother *hated* her red eyes and could hardly look upon Manah because she had the same color of eyes, too. But somehow, when word started going around that perhaps Manah is the reborn “Holy Mother of the Church” she started treating her better.
Then one day Manah started acting crazy, singing and dancing around in circles with her arms out-stretched to the heavens. Seere was sincerely saddened by her sudden loss of reality, but then the other soldiers started praising her, saying that she is indeed the “Holy Mother”… Everyone started acting weird, so Seere snuck out and ran away, no one even noticing him leave.
Then there are a couple moments in the POV of Angelus… when the DEMONIC DRAGON appears and starts laughing triumphantly when it appears there are a ton of Red-Eyes below them. Even if the old Holy Capital had been destroyed, the disease that permeated from there still exists, spreading from human to human. And this is where the DEMONIC DRAGON says that if they feed on this disease, they can obtain great power… this was the moment they had been waiting for all along. After that many of the dragons started losing their reason, giving completely into madness. They went from town to town, village to village, gobbling up every last human they could find—Red-Eye or not.
Then Caim, while riding on Angelus’ back, is attacked and killed by another dragon. Angelus sees Caim falling and tries desperately to catch him, reaching out a hand to grab him—?? A hand? Oh well, he tries and is ultimately unable to save Caim. With the wind blowing his hair all about, Angelus looks for the dragon that killed Caim and still has his blood on its fangs and claws. He quickly dispatches the insane dragon…but it isn’t enough. He attacks and kills a bunch of other dragons and yet it is not enough. His shrill screams slowly blend into laughter…
Next we see the events unfolding from Seere’s perspective. He sees the RED DRAGON transform into a humanoid form…but with wings! And he quickly remembers about the stories his mother had told him as a child about the Angels. The rest of the dragons, just like Angelus, also transform into their corresponding Angelic forms.
In the end, the majority of the dragons go insane when they are reduced to humanoid Angelic forms, and they devour every last human left on the planet. By devouring them, the dragons give birth to their new dragon spawn, increasing their numbers twice over, four times over, eight times over, sixteen times over…
Next the dragons devour the animals and even the trees in the forests. But they don’t stop there. They devour the fog in the forests, the hard, rocky mountains, the grubby mud, the water from the oceans, everything. Eventually, the humanoid dragons again alter their forms and appear to be nothing more than writhing guts upon the ground.
In the next moments, the dragons, now only balls of flesh and guts, begin to grow massively huge, the size of mountains. The nondescript gigantic forms then begin to resemble babies, singing intelligible songs. The babies cry as they use their fingers to cut the world apart; black, noxious gas spews from their mouths to rise up into the sky and blot out the sun.
Once everything has been destroyed, devoured by the gigantic babies, they open their mouths wide as though consuming the very planet was not enough, they begin to devour each other.
Angelus, in his new humanoid Angelic form, watches the destruction from a viewing point high above. He ultimately knows the conclusion to this story. Once the babies have destroyed everything, they will turn in upon themselves until everything is gone. Angelus watched as the dragons changed forms multiple times, from humanoids, to babies, and they continue to change. Now, the remaining babies gather together and form something that resembles giant eggs. These will be used to begin anew, a time before this world ever existed. With the utter annihilation of the human race, the curtains in this play were finally closed.
Angelus finds the remains of Caim and notes how little he feels. Neither sadness, nor anger. Nothing. It appears that he did not die well, but rather he was still holding on tightly to his sword in his left hand. He must have been fighting something until the bitter end.
“You did well,” Angelus says, taking the last remaining proof of Caim’s defiant life–his sword, still streaked with dragon blood.
As the wind begins to blow, Angelus gathers his long, red hair together in his left hand.
“Perhaps now I can tell you my name.”
He takes Caim’s sword in his right hand and cuts his own hair with it, the strands of hair gracefully floating down to cover the mutilated corpse. More than half of it had been eaten by the dragons. And as the rest of Angelus’ hair fluttered down to cover the rest of the corpse, it began to shine brilliantly golden like glittering scales. Soon, the golden strands of hair ignited a holy fire to return the fallen soldier back to the earth.
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