Talk:Dragon's Dogma World and Lore/@comment-37366922-20181108022136/@comment-37858418-20190114184524

I think they can both be answered in a single response: the game doesn't (care to) tell you that the Arisen, now senechal, actually fought many Arisen before giving up his power.

Remember, the senechal is omnipotent, he could beat any challenging Arisen and stay senechal for eternity. It's his WILL that keeps him from renouncing his throne, in particulary it's when an Arisen's will surpasses the one of the current senechal (because as Savan says it's the will that keeps the world going and so Arisen must be cycled, hence the world becomes stagnant) which in the game coincides to the player's will (which I think is a beautiful meta, kinda like Dark Souls' hollowing lore, which should in theory make anyone who has lost all their humanity score, make him lose his sanity too and disappear, which isn't a mechanic per se, but just a meta for players that abandon the game after they lost too much progress).

Also another thing, there are multiple dragons (one example being the Ur-Dragon) and drakes are able to steal hearts too (I think, since they actually have one unlike any other creature that comes from the Rift). They just appear very rarely to steal one.