Talk:Arisen/@comment-37224224-20181017213501/@comment-24431732-20181102034136

THE DRAGON DOES GRANT WISHES. It's outright confirmed that dragons can grant any wish, even the wish to have god-like power, as long as the Arisen sacrifices their beloved. It's the entire plot of Bitterblack Isle, and also how Edmund became duke. Assumedly your Arisen also wants to become duke, because there's an ending where you give up your beloved and magically become duke, replacing Edmund. The dragon always offers a choice, though we have no idea why. To give Arisen some semblence of free will, or a reward for parting with the thing they love most? Or one extra trial of will by dangling a universe of possibility or getting to save their beloved? Who knows.

There's no problem with Savan and the Dragonforged's differences in weaponry because dragons are outright said to ravage whole human civilizations. All of Bitterblack Isle is a civilization from ancient times, just pulled underground and easiest to see right before Daimon. Also the mountain where you fight Grigori is littered with ancient civilization ruins, and the Bluemoon Tower is unknown about how it came to be, assumedly another relic of the past. Grigori just attacked earlier in the tech-development line than he did in yours, or in the Dragonforged's time, spears were considered better equipment than swords.

As for the third point, I don't have anything I can prove in game, but it's a working theory of mine that the first dragon following an arisen's ascent to seneschal is made by the seneschal, not plucked from anywhere. The seneschal is God. Savan flaunts that you can do literally whatever you want, making another you and just killing it outright to prove the point. He creates duplicates of many people you meet along your journey, and uses them to challenge your will in the cloud tunnel towards him. Making life is pitifully easy to God, and you become God, so there's no reason you can't just make the first dragon to fill the roll. There also doesn't even need to be a dragon until you start to lose the driving will to keep the world going. The dragon only shows up at the "Oh shit" moment when God realizes he'd rather die than continue to live.