#side note: this is also why she has lines showing admiration to george and martha. because they're dragon-slaying christian saints

[tgrailwar-zero]

You know, I never parsed Draco to dragon even though I should have. I am going to have to ask Rider later why Sodom's beast is represented by a dragon, he's catholic, so he would know.

NIKITICH: "Sodom's Beast… right, the report said as much. A shame. I would have liked to see such a creature firsthand."

Minor note, Dobrynya Nikitich was also a Christian.

…Though how much varied depending on the source. Speaking strictly historically, DOBRYNYA would have been born during a period of Slavic paganism. However, serving as the voivode the 'Fair Sun' Vladimir recorded him… recorded her as a rather brutal warlord in the name of Christianity. However, the 'Dobrynya Nikitich' recorded as a folk hero was more of a free-spirited adventurer, a Bogatyr that wandered the lands slaying beasts and saving the weak.

The 'Christianization' of Kievan Rus was a long and complicated process, mostly occurring through interactions between the Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus.

The relevant note here was that clearly, this DOBRYNYA wasn't as steeped in zealotry, and was rather lax about the whole thing, so this seemed to be more in-line with his… her records as a folk hero.

NIKITICH: "Dragons are representations of evil, chaos, trickery… that whole lot. Troublesome things, dragons, zmei, all of them… wouldn't you agree, Sigurd?"

SIGURD: "Fafnir was a beast of avarice, but also wisdom. Conquering them is an important facet in a hero's journey, I would say. But what you gain from it is more important."

NIKITICH: "Mm. That is true."