#bondforged euden

[iamblz-tblr]

hope not lost, only silent

(i have notes about silent hope's gameplay, but i like it well enough, dragalia is no longer lost)

[emberscarletvt]

It's a day late, but to celebrate Dragalia Lost's 5th Anniversary, I drew Bondforged Prince/Euden!

I still miss ya, Dragalia…

[ailheim-art]

Back from a trip abroad, here's some new Dragalia stuff.

[raichana-artblog]

Bondforged Mer-Euden

This is my final Mermay picture for 2023, I was most excited to work on him and the fact that he goes with bondforged Mer-Zethia is just the cherry on top!

His partner may be a statue now but I hope one day they'll be able to adventure again.

thanks for putting up with all the merfolk this month, I still have osme pics i wanna make but yeah I'll just do them when I feel like it!

[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!

[willofwinnie]

What does Dragalia Lost and Dungeon Meshi have in common? Pretty red dragon ladies! So here's a quick Chimera Mym illustration as I rewatch Delicious in Dungeon for the millionth time and got inspired!

Spoilers for some but other chimera forms I thought would be cool with Dragalia characters would be Dragon-Human versions of the other greatwyrms, Mids Zero-Bondforged Euden, Gala Zethia-Bahamut or even Nedrick-Bahamut. Perhaps a future day!

[addoves]

u ever think abt how bondforged eudens hair is like literal fire?

[mxdotpng]

euden fans will see a tag your fave post and reblog it and tag it like

#euden #nedrick #otherworld euden #eden

AHDBFJDN i was considering it ❤️ i had to think about whether or not tagging nedrick was cheating 😔

[halidom-confessions]

Okay, I realized something somewhat cursed but in advance, no hate to anyone that likes this ship tho. Because if anything, the ending taught me is that possibility is endless and somewhere out there, there is someone that likes this ship. Since the ending of Dragalia had Euden as a stranger to Zethia, that leaves a chance of them getting married together in their future. I don't like this possibility ever happening at all, but it is what it is and the possibility they all fought for-

[flyingcookierambles]

the final dragalia...

hi fellow losties

lets cry together

im live streaming the final hours on twitch, trying to finish the story

some twitter threads of my dragalia stuff i guess idk (ill be updating this as i go today for memories sake to have these together i guess. idk. stupid sentimentality) 1 (edit: moving the rest below, i think that theres a lot surprisingly) + kit

currently. no doing so well, crying. i feel like im losing a good friend today. literally the more i think the more i cry. its like the going merry all over again. i havent cried this much in years...

sad incoherent rambling below....

1am edit: we did it Losties. we were all together for the final moments. I made a highlight of my final Dragalia stream. There was a home screen walk with Faeblessed Tobias and Bondforged Euden and then the last 41 seconds with the Wagabound Pupper. man. seeing that little 3d computer dog with the pop up screen saying that he is ours forever, since he was originally just a 1 day character for a previous April Fools. just. a bit of a slap in the face. i’ll post my final screenshots tomorrow probably. my throat’s a little tight and i think im gonna cry again. i didn’t even cry this much when A3! eng died...maybe it’s because Dragalia is older. almost got to 4 years. it’s been my comfort game throughout college.

anyways here.

goodnight i have work tomorrow.

desperately trying to download all the assets i can, including the final stubborn 12 of all like 40+ GB of the files. all the good mmees, the laughs and cries, the ups and downs of the story both in an emotional sense and a writing quality sense. just. nothing. thankfully the entire story and all the character stories are preserved thanks to the subreddit and discord.i should’ve played more too. but. ever since the ending was announced. not just in August, but in March. I haven’t played dragalia fully. i didnt do kaledoscope bc i am not good at hack n slash rogue-likes (i suck at hades lol. im only good at rogue dungeon crawling turn based like etrian). im just so full of regrets, even more so than A3!, i think because it had like 0 gameplay and all story and i read most of those. dragalia is. was. will be was. huge. so underappreciated....

if a private server comes up in the future, im ready. i hope.

*looks over at the filtering out unneeded assets message on CMD as the program struggles to get these last 12 stupid files*

twitter i guess

jake calling ferran little duck

never got summer ieyasu....

atlantis. they really were just like. yeah merpeople are real ok lets move on lol. i wonder what would’ve happened had it been able to be expanded on...

random gacha luck posts 1 <- faebless tobias summer curran  notte+others

new years/ox clan pulls gluca  ilia 2nd gala pulls  random i literally dont even remember her event story or what lol  + all the northerners at once lmao + summer ranzal! in . oct 2019 +

children of the forest event + masucla home

reacting to a lot of adventure/castle stories thread

blonde himbo grandpa came home!

2021 april fools + valentines + persona5/strikers collab i think i might’ve livestreamed this too or at least have some saved screen recording of it somewhere. i know that this is twt threads only but that was such a good event + the entire HUD/GUI was redesigned to be p5 themed it was actually really beautiful and we can never see it again sobs + new years 2021 map + 2020 FEH 2 + first gluca run + 2019 halloween + random 2019 screenshots? + more random fractured futures 2019 + 2 more + 2019 anni & random gbf + home screen 2019 anni + the first FEH event 2019 huh my twt media doesnt go any further i might have just not used it between when it was first made in 2015 and then 2019 lol

grandpa humid ilu

issac/tobias first look

dragalia sword?

robot lesbibabs

croptops.. (bonus random thread started with me being an enstarrie for bastard man rinne)

card

tobias story

alchemy

“share the will of the goddess with him” *pulls out a knife* + 2020 northern ilian church

2020 summer norwin + mikoto + 2 + festival thread (bonus a3! en) + W I D E Mei Hou Wang +

bonus the 2020 gacha brainworms parasites i had on my phone at the time

haha remember when leo was a bad guy

[iamblz-tblr]

out of Words to Give

...

thanks for the 4 years, Dragalia Lost, and again for all the memories

had just a stickman pose sketch of this to go along with the thing from april- but left it on the cutting room floor because that was already a lot of work

better time as any to set it free, eh

[wereallylostnowbois]

Chapter 26 (part 1) thoughts

spoilers ahead

So. The doubles, the doppelgangers, the "Otherworld Friends". A detail I enjoy about them is that they use the original designs, the ones we're more familiar with, while everyone else has switched to their gala/bondforged/ect. designs, denoting that these are the ones from the world we know and love, that they're the ones that have had this character development. But in using the old designs for the "Otherworld Friends" they almost feel more familiar, you almost begin to think "aren't they right? This is all our fault isn't it?" Which is just. So massively convincing for such a small detail.

Additionally the aesthetics of this stronghold are just, so fascinating. A brilliant re-use of assets that makes everything both familiar and unfamiliar all at once, precisely the feeling that should accompany a place like this.

The final thing this update makes me wonder about is like, just how many times now has Beren faked us out and been like "I am now susceptible to the power of friendship. Haha jk i still want you dead." How many times. This 20+ year old child is among the most convincing dl villains by sheer merit of being immune to the power of friendship. What an antagonist, what a problematic fav.

Anyway the especially interesting thing about Beren is that he states himself to be the only *surviving* Beren, every other one in the multiverse died long before the Morsayati confrontation. This is important because that means that the universe we play within is the only one where Euden survives this confrontation without being possessed. Ergo, what Euden sites as possibility that saved him and what Beren sites as a lack thereof are one and the same thing, one event seen through contrasting perspectives. Lovely irony.

[ailheim-art]

Happy anniversary to Dragalia Lost

[fiannalover]

Bondforged Euden brainrot is going with Prometheus holding Bondforged Euden's hair and going absolutely no thoughts on his head other than "hair"

[valeriefauxnom]

Random Thought Re. Bondforged Euden

So, Bondforged Euden was locked into Midgardsormr 0 for his shapeshift, as we all know (this is not a complaint, given Mid0's power!).

As such, he has one quote upon shapeshifting, which in English is,

Which is more or less verbatim from what I hear in JP, "Ikuzo, Midgardsormr!"

However, JP added an additional little tidbit to his whole shapeshift sequence. Specifically, when using Mids' skill in shapeshift, both Euden and Midgardsormr voice the line in complete unison.

That got me to thinking.

Is Bondforged Euden actually dracoshifting, instead of shapeshifting?

Now, I know it sounds like I'm throwing out words here, but yes, this was a concept in Dragalia, and I don't blame you if it doesn't exactly sound familiar.

We technically see it twice, as it is the explanation for how Alberius and Chthonius merged and stayed merged for so long, and it also serves as a way to amp up Leonidas.

While details are... spare (to put it mildly), aside from that, I think the implication of the notion of the 'dracoshift' is that it's more of a merge between the two for a time than just the human yoinking the form of their dragon for a bit.

That being said, I wonder if that's actually what's happening upon Bondforged Euden's shift, since the skill itself is called 'United Tempest' and the Japanese version has the both of them outright vocalizing together.

Pushing it one step further, I then would like to say that his regular attacks and skills are just regular shapeshifts, which is another wild thing. I've gone over the subtle evidence before that the whole pacting process and shifting isn't easy, and can be dangerous, but that just goes to show how far Euden has come, that he's constantly dipping in and out of a shapeshifted form just to make his attacks that much harder to resist/predict.

And then, when you factor in the fact that when he actually 'shapeshifts' he's really just taking it one step further to literally meld with Mids for a while, the fact that he has the energy at all to do any of that... It goes to show just how much stronger he is.

Interestingly, as a last thought I had on it, it's actually a gradual progression that was demonstrated through his other alts.

Most of the time, we see base Euden just shift once. Gala Euden starts mixing it up and sometimes shifts sequentially without even taking a breather between forms, as seen in his own story and in The Blood That Binds. And then we come to Bondforged, who is throwing out shapeshifts left and right and also finding the time and energy to merge with Mids quite a bit, since he's a very dragon-heavy user.

Kinda nuts, when you think of it that way!

[valeriefauxnom]

More Little Model Things -Animation Edition!

So for all those that didn't know Phares as a unit, he was pretty darn sweet. Despite him being ultimately an 'amper', he did solid damage too and helped ailment support, higher than even Valyx's base damage mods, if I recall right (though Valyx's permanent energy ability throws that out ultimately).

While Bondforged Euden came out soon after and stole the show because of his ludicrous damage and the simple fact we finally had a wind Euden (that was locked into Midgardsormr shapeshift no less, fitting with how many jokes revolved around Euden not working well with Mids in his other forms...), I think he would have been a very solid core to most wind teams. Amps and ailment support alone get him far in Iblis, the ailment race that it is.

But his passives were also interesting, like the ability to ultimately say 'no' when he would die. While it triggered a state of fatigue for him in which he was pretty much a sitting duck until you fixed it, it still was a potential save from a run-killer otherwise. Triggering this near save, though, would trigger a special animation too.

I'm admittedly experimenting here since I've never uploaded a video to tumblr before, but hopefully this works. Here it (hopefully!) is:

(I've got no idea why his eyes suddenly look bright blue in the video to me)

And I dunno, I just like the little detail in it like how he seems to be using his left arm in particular to shelter his head and body, because that's where his wyrmscale lies from what we know of it. It only makes sense to use that as an extra layer of armor if it can casually deflect Ranzal attempting to decapitate him with an axe at full force!

And then the way he just looks around after pausing for a bit like, "I survived that? Really?" is fun too. Phares has long been a character striving to live above all else, so the almost vaguely-optimistic look-around he's doing is kinda...sweet in a way? Heck, the passive that grants this effect is called "Thirst for Life"!

All this wrapped up in a very quick animation among the chaos of battle where players aren't zoomed in enough to get the ideal camera angle or detail to see this. It's just a neat little unique animation!