#gala zena

[ritterdoodles]

Happy 6th Anniversary, thank you for all the good memories <3

[satsuha]

drgl on the mind so i wanna ask what your fave gala units were (whether it's design or gameplay) !

gameplay-wise i think i'd have to say zena and chelle bc their force strikes were just so satisfying and gzena's skills are one of the prettiest in the game imo... design-wise it's also zena but i also love emile elly cleo

[valeriefauxnom]

Uh, Euden? You alright?

Did you know that Gala Euden in particular seemed to have a boss entry animation tucked away in his code? You know, the little threat displays bosses did when the name of the fight was flashing across the screen like, "Volk's Wrath - Master Difficulty" and the like?

Yup. Here it is!

(I added the sword just because he looks like he's using one but the base animation, of course, doesn't use a weapon)

So yeah. He's quite obviously floating, judging by the classic 'legs half-bent, slight up-and-down shifts', so first there's that question on the hows and whys is Euden flying casually, much less directly at the viewpoint camera on the attack.

Also, it's kinda weird how his model starts facing one way but the rest of the animation is facing another. I'm not animator or game designer of any sort, but maybe they would've implemented a camera shift or something to make it look like he's facing the player like they did the other bosses?

Aside from that, the big question is, of course, 'why does Euden have a boss entry animation?' Of course, there's quite a few scenarios they might've been intending on using it. I dunno when it was added, but anywhere from ch.14's Morsayati near-possession of him to the AU worlds' Eudens, like Zena's...

Heck, for all I know they really were going to make a Euden fight for ch.25, but didn't have the time or resources to finish it and then had to go, 'uh, Euden, okay, he made Chronos...have the players fight Euden-as-Chronos. There. Makes sense' to make sure it was ready in time. If so, darn, I would've liked to see it as another rare humanoid fight in Dragalia after the likes of Ranzal in ch.1 (though he is not a strenuous boss by any degree- you can interrupt his animations) and Nedrick's fight (I MAY REALIZE IT OVER TIME, TELL ME WHYYYYY, NOW I WANT TO KNOW, I UNRAVEL MYSELF FOR ALL- blares in the background).

Ex:

Imagine if he could just do that casually all along, though, the floaty thingie, that is. I mean, Phares already seems to be floating sometimes and tends to pop in from nowhere like ch.7? Granted,he's a wind unit so maybe there's some funky mana shenanigans he's doing to achieve the effect, but maybe it's just all that raw evil-deity power that lets people float. (also not long ago I just noticed that in this picture it looks like Euden might be crying? Not important nor relevant but. Oof. Suppose it might be fair given he's now been/being attacked by three of his siblings all at once, but oof).

Anyways, that's really all I had to say.

But yeah, we had a potential boss fight vs Euden somewhere in the works or drafts or whatever!

[slimymush]

Gala Zena! :D

Wanted to share the Dragalia Lost and Zena love~

Speedpaint: https://youtu.be/zFLXghVE8x4

[crystalelemental]

She is so cute.

[ghostofazalea]

THANK YOU DRAGALIA OUR TIME TOGETHER WILL FOREVER BE CHERISHED

[gia-is-fangirlin]

This is the blessed Gala Zena free daily 10 pull. May it also bless your rolls.

[halidom-confessions]

As dumb as this might sound, the first time I saw Zethia I thought “She’s gonna be the one I relate to the most, isn’t she”. Cue me being right and then DL dropping the Zena chapter two days before my birthday. It’s like they knew

[kitten-nuggets]

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[ritterdoodles]

Happy 4th Anniversary, Dragalia Lost.

[satsuha]

a little update: i've begun working on merch and hope to open charm commissions soon so i can order them at the same time (around mid december!)

it's quite likely that i won't have any new octopath merch since i had some plans for octo1 but they might not work out... but i will be restocking my recent octo2 charms if you missed them!

the main thing i'm working on are the apostle and gala unit charms! i have a rough first sketch for the apostles done, and i'll be working on the rest in between commissions. i miiiight release half of the gala charms first so i don't have as many acrylics to store... but if i do it will include notte/alex/zena/laxi/mascula

[mxdotpng]

on god i am not going to survive

[ebenholzs-husband]

I got Gala Emile and Zena on my first ten summon. I don’t care; I am saving for Phares and then I’m coming for Nedrick next 🥰!

[crystalelemental]

Time for me to stop playing and building units. This is too precise.

[addoves]

This took AGES but I finally finished it! I made my own design for an AU in which Euden goes back in time instead of Zethia, and then ends up going by Eden :)

I think I'll talk a little more abt it & the design under the cut.

The one thing I wanted when designing Eden's get-up was to keep similarities to Zena/possessed Zethia. I really like the extra skin + the gold accents, so I tried to incorporate those in a way that was different but still recognizable. That's when I took a part of Euden's gala design and made it a bit more... sorcerer-esque.

I also wanted to keep Euden's warm colors in contrast to Zethia's cooler colors, so I used warmer purples and red's and I'm so glad it turned out well! I think it works and I'm really happy about that.

The main thing here with this AU, I think, is that instead of finding a successful way to turn back time, Zethia had figured out a way to seal Morsayati away but disappeared along with him. That's when Euden begins to pick up magic, stealing her old notes to pick up where she stopped.

I think his relation to the plot would be relatively the same, but very different in some other ways. For example, I think he'd only have tried a handful of times to stop himself from getting a dragonpact like Zena had. I have half a mind to say he's seen enough times to know what needs to be done to result up to the events of Ch. 15, so he ends up steering the party in a direction that also ends up making them think he's evil. Whoopsie!

One of the notes I've written down that I really liked was him coming upon this timeline and talking to Zethia during chapters 1-5 and warning her of what's to come, and around that time it being her that gives him his new name.

This was half an excuse to draw Euden as a mage because it's something I've wanted for forever. He looks so different without his bulky armor but you'd think with his connection to the Other he'd also have a good connection to magic. You'd think they'd give the main character other alts but 😔

[dragalialore]

MMMM OKAY LET’S TALK ABOUT ALL THAT JUICY GOODNESS IN CHAPTER 16

(spoilers. obviously)

In no real order:

Elisanne resolving her insecurities. The poor girl has been an absolute MESS ever since Harle purposely showed her the exact kind of information that would throw her off her feet. Remember, Elisanne is a Paladyn to the CORE--her entire world revolves around serving church and having the utmost faith in their teachings. The church is closely related to the royal family--recall how the Sacred Shards are said to be fragments of a sword gifted to Alberius, the founder of the kingdom, by Ilia herself. (Or, well, Meene. lol) I’m unsure if we’ve ever heard about any past Auspexes (Auspexi?), but Zethia being both from the royal bloodline and the Auspex of the Ilian church is possibly related. (Maybe their mother was the previous Auspex; it would explain why Zethia took up the mantle at such a young age.) ALL THAT means that Harle revealing to her that the church has been lying about her liege’s origins was a sure-fire way to throw her for a loop. Her faith in Euden was not wavering; her faith in the CHURCH was. This is why, at the end of Chapter 16, she chooses to step down as Grand Paladyn and serve Euden whole-heartedly. She recognizes that the Church’s teaching are not infallible, and that there is no shame in questioning the truths that she knows. This poor girl has been tormented by this anxiety since... what, post-Chapter 11? And she FINALLY found her answer. She doesn’t need the church to be part of her identity, and she doesn’t have to answer to them to have faith. This much is proved when the sheer potency of her prayer, filtered through Zena, purifies Poseidon in one shot.

Leonidas AND Chelle coming to Euden’s aid. FINALLY, the siblings are working together! With the glue that bound them previously, Morsayati, slurped up by their Hot Topic sibling, Leo and Chelle are FINALLY able to move more freely. The cracks in Leo’s armor that Alex found have been widening since Chapter 12; she has a fucking point there. Agreeing to be UNDER someone is the antithesis of Valkaheim’s, and by extension Leonidas’s, ideals. He’s the first-born fucking heir. He shouldn’t have to answer to ANYBODY. So why is he agreeing to be so subservient under a clear evil? The answer is a little clearer when you look at Chelle: the core of Chelle’s character is that she is always planning ahead. I have zero doubt that the second Morsayati offered his deal she was going to take him up on it, because Chelle is always playing every side. There’s no better place to keep an eye on the enemy than at the enemy’s side, and the proof that she was never with Morsayati in the first place is in both Chapter 11 and 12, where she intentionally sabotages the battle in ways favorable to Euden--Chapter 11 where she gives Emile control over androids that he DEFINITELY can’t handle, and 12 where she lets Euden walk right through her camp. There’s also the fact that while Morsayati was in power, they had their own city-states to worry about. Chelle and Leonidas have a responsibility to Chanzelia and Valkaheim respectively; while 16 shows that they’ve been mostly ignoring the rest of the territory, to abandon their own kingdoms would be unthinkable.

Leonidas’s seemingly heel-face turn. I’m not saying he HASN’T gotten character development; we all remember when Leo was introduced as the crazy maniacal first-born who experimented on his pact dragon and blew up his hired assassin without hesitation. I AM saying that Euden’s screaming match with him in the climax of Chapter 12 definitely got to him. Ever since Euden challenged his ideals, rescued him from certain death, and treated him without asking for anything in return, Leonidas has been significantly more subdued. He’s always thought of himself as the strongest and the best, and instead he got his ass handed to him by his youngest sibling that was using a dragon elementally inferior to his own. AND he got chided by his own ex-subject, WHO HE LITERALLY TRIED TO BLOW UP. Talk about a reality check! From then on, interludes do touch on how Leo is keeping track of Euden; probably through Chelle’s network. Despite it being clear that he knows Euden’s movements, he doesn’t really... do that much to stop him, even when Euden launches an attack on Sol Alberia. His sudden character 180-flip isn’t quite so sudden--it’s the culmination of four chapters of reflecting why his kid brother handed his ass to him. It wasn’t the power of friendship, or even his raw strength. Euden’s conviction is what’s let him smash through obstacle after obstacle, and as soon as Leonidas realizes that conviction is shaken, he doesn’t hesitate to help. Leonidas is, and always has been, about valuing strength--and this time, he recognized a different kind of strength in his little brother.

The acknowledgement of the state of New Alberia. Whatever the kingdom’s name is right now, it’s super fucky. New Alberia and Dyrenell’s clashes, along with Euden’s tunnel vision for Zethia’s rescue, have left the whole of southern Grastaea in shambles. Faith in the royal family is at an all-time low because they’ve all been squabbling amongst each other without much thought for the common people. Yes, Euden and his folks make it a point to shepherd people to the safety of New Alberia’s borders, along with making regular rounds to take out fiends, but his quest to defeat Dyrenell (read: save Zethia) is all that’s really on his mind. Laxi and Mascula are most definitely parallels to Euden and Zethia; Euden is apt to run into situations without a second thought, not hesitating to fight if it’s clear talking won’t work. Zena, on the other hand, has basically been Euden’s braincell for the last two chapters: Euden is ready to do something dumb, and then Zena says “hey Euden maybe don’t do that actually” and Euden immediately settles down. I’m pretty sure the primary reason she was included in the main cast was so she could act as Euden’s conscience, and the last two chapters have not proven me wrong.

Euden’s potential origins. SO I’ve seen theories floating around about Euden being a changeling or fairy child since the Chapter 12 interludes, and it looks like they’re confirmed in this chapter. Euden’s true nature seems to be the son of an important faerie, Finlorda. However, knowing what we do about faerie lore, it’s got everyone wondering if Euden’s wings were removed to preserve the illusion of him being human. I’m not super sure what to think--I mean, fae lore dictates that faeries reach a period in their adolescence when they get big, but for this whole ruse to work, it would mean that Euden’s been human-sized since the beginning. Does taking a faerie’s wings completely absolve them of their magic? (Note I have yet to read Meene’s story; my perspective may change.) Euden coming from the faerie kingdom casts questions on Notte, too--we know that Zethia found her in the garden after she tried to convince dragons that they were kin. Who is she, really, and why doesn’t she remember anything about the faerie kingdom? Something hinky is going on, and hopefully it’ll be explored in Chapter 18 when they reach the kingdom.

The assurance of Euden’s place in his family. This. THIS is why Euden had such a major freakout. The absolute, gut-wrenching TERROR that he’s been ignoring his country’s plight, his friend’s pleas, all of that for a girl that might not even consider him her brother. That all the mistakes and sacrifices he’s made have been pointless. And let’s also point out that Leonidas REFUSES to recognize Euden as his own brother in his introduction chapter! He literally calls Euden a grain of dust. And yet this chapter. THIS CHAPTER has Leonidas EXPLICITLY telling Euden that regardless of his origins, he considers Euden to be his brother. Those are the words that Euden needed to hear. That is the reassurance Euden was desperate to have. This is the first time anyone OTHER THAN Zethia/Zena has properly acknowledged Euden as family; Phares uses it in passing, Emile hates his guts and insults him, and Beren mocks him with it. His oldest brother and sister heartfeltedly telling him that he is their brother was what Euden needed, and I am so very glad that he got it.

Chelle joining the main party. The first mainworld royal party member! FUCK YEAH!!! I know a lot of people thought it would be Leonidas, with all that emphasis on him in the preview, but like, c’mon. Of course his little sister would steal the spotlight. Plus she has an entire moving ship, so no more camping in the woods for the main party! Woo!!!! It also gives us an opportunity to see how she runs things, and more specifically, how it’ll work in the main cast’s favor now that she’s finally not explicitly against them. I’m super excited. (And hey, Leo might be the next Gala along with Poseidon. Who knows?)

All in all, this was, perhaps, THE most emotionally satisfying chapter Dragalia Lost has put out. Fears were assuaged, families were reunited, problems were solved... someone please put the Stefon meme here. This chapter has everything: family love, guns, sexy new outfits, the characters you love finally being happy...