#sol regem

[bat-snake]

My dude was really playing thousands of years of long game just to set up the death of the guy that snitched on his baby girl and then taunt him to his face as he was dying.

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

[zuppizup]

[eyeball-freak]

Rest in piss

[viscountess-nila]

I saw somewhere, that someone said Zym's relevance was lost, and so the name "The Dragon Prince" really isn't fitting anymore.

But the name is the Dragon Prince, not Azymondias.

And what other dragon prince do we know?

Sol Regum. Anak Arow. The Dragon Prince who exposed a young Startouch elf for helping humans, causing her death, pushing Aaravos into the dark, twisted path of vengeance, damning the world. The Sun King, who despised humans with a passion, believed they were lower beings, the Archdragon represented the darker side of Xadia, the side that Claudia and Viren saw, causing them to reach out for dark magic.

The dragon who started it all. The dragon, so lost in his prejudice against humans, he dragged a whole world into darkness.

And in complete contrast, you have Azymondias, whose birth itself represents the bond between humans and Xadians, the dragon who has befriended humans and would lay down his life for some of them (Ezran, Callum, even Soren). He is the Dragon Prince that will lead Xadia to a better future, away from the downfall Sol Regum wrecked on them millennia ago.

The Dragon Prince that let the world slip into hell. And the Dragon Prince that will guide the world back to heaven.

[bird-freakk]

Snitches get stitches

[tategaminu]

My version of baby Sol and his future dead waifu

[ragingadhd]

Karim using the sun seed to heal Sol Regem is such a great metaphor for how trying to restore the past squanders the possibility of a future

The sun seed could’ve become a great relic. It could’ve brought light and life to the sunfire elves. All it needed was love, nurturing, and time.

But Karim wasn’t satisfied with that. He wanted the sunfire elves to revert back to a ‘simpler’ time, one of discrimination and animosity. He took the sun seed, a rare, powerful item, to heal Sol Regem. All to restore his civilization to a time long past.

He robbed his people of a future.

[jade-of-mourning]

i used to doodle sol regem a lot between s2/s3 releases but somehow this is the first rayla actually. hey please drop by my askbox; i wanna scribble more tdp!

[gh0sts-png]

Hearts of Cinder

The Dragon Prince Season 6

[aaruaalislost]

i did manage to quickly paint that sol regem tho

[bat-snake]

Sol Regem Confrontations (with varying degrees of downfall) + Arrogance

[jedidragonwarriorqueen]

[artie-dartie]

Sol Regem

[learties]

we are so back

we are kinda back

[luniviravosshipper]

Okay, so this is going to be a very low effort post because it’s late where I am and I’m tired, but I honestly really want to talk about this so I’m going to anyways.

So. About Sol Regem eating Pharos.

This is most definitely one of my most favorite scenes and moments in the show for many different reasons. But one of the many aspects I thought was great about it was that it did the opposite of ‘tell no show’.

The show has been hinting for ages how the dragons see the humans and elves as ants for them to stomp on or to toss around. It’s always been implied or explicitly said. There’s several moments in the show where we see the dragons threatening the lives of the main cast whenever they are even slightly displeased with them. All in all, they see them as just small things that they can disregard the lives of whenever.

Although they perhaps have more of a bias against humans, in general they look down upon both humans and elves and view them as less then. They don’t value their lives because they find their lives to be so short and them to be so minuscule in comparison to them.

And yet when we finally get to see a dragon prove this sentiment by literally eating someone, they end up choking. It’s only fitting for a dragon who believes himself to be so powerful and shows absolutely no remorse for harming the lives of others around him to end up dying literally by doing just that. His pride and arrogance, as Aaravos calls it, finally caught up to him. And in a way, as awful as it probably was for Aaravos to basically sacrifice Pharos here, it helped prove a point. It proved Aaravos’s whole argument regarding the dragons, and how selfish and apathetic they are. How they do not care about life. In this situation in particular, Sol Regem did this knowing that Pharos wasn’t the real body of Aaravos and that he was only manifesting himself through him and still ate him rashly and in a fit of rage, not even considering for a moment that he’s hurting this other person and not even remotely doing anything to harm Aaravos. If anything, again, he only helped his argument.

(I can talk about this more in another post, but I just realized that it’s also ironic how much Sol Regem hated humans because he thought they took life and showed no care for it when that’s literally all that he does. And I think that specifically is actually what Aaravos was kind of trying to prove all along. His personal vendetta against him started off with him wanting to get back at him for ratting out his daughter for sharing magic with humans, but I can imagine that after he discovered dark magic it started to shift and became more so about proving to Sol Regem that he simply had no place in general to judge dark magic or humans who use it.)

This works very well thematically and really helps to better shape the viewers understanding of the role the dragons take in the world building of this universe. As these creatures who have been put into positions of power throughout Xadia’s history, not because of what knowledge or wisdom they have or because of some special capabilities that they possess that others don’t, but because they’re so feared. They’re these big, angry, and violent creatures that everyone has just grown too fearful of to actually face.

And when we’re finally shown why they have been so feared, we see one of them face the consequences of his own actions within the very same moment he acts. And it’s great.