The duty of the dragon is to protect the world, more specifically, to protect the star soul of the planet Azeroth.
It seems that they do not need to be responsible for the mortal race, but a healthy star soul only completes its growth under the influence of the organic world, the inorganic world... various life forms and energy forms.
Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why the dragon is divided into five legions, each with different responsibilities:
The Life-Binder Red Dragon protects life, so that every light point of life can give back to the star soul that carries them;
The protection magic of Spellweaver Blue Dragon makes the violent power orderly and strengthens the world;
The Sleeper, the Green Dragon, controls dreams, leaving the world’s most primitive appearance in the Emerald Dream;
The Lord of Time, the Bronze Dragon, governs destiny and ensures that the concrete world will not be distorted by abstract paradoxes;
The guardian of the earth, the black dragon, symbolizes strength, guarding the mountains and maintaining the stable pattern of the earth.
Such an arrangement seemed to have no problem 25,000 years ago when the Titan Guardians oversaw the ancient times of the world, but the tide of the times would eventually flow forward.
Times are changing, enemies are changing, and the mortal world is also changing.
The richness of life in the world of Azeroth today is no longer what it was 25,000 years ago. The positive impact that the red dragon huddled in a corner of Northrend can bring to life has long been minimal.
Not only the red dragon, but also most of the guardian dragons' powers have been invaded to varying degrees:
Needless to say, the black dragon, more and more mortal races have the power to transform the earth, and as the black dragon king Neltharion went crazy and turned into Deathwing, the earth was completely controlled by the mortal races.
The blue dragon studies magic and combs and closes the magic webs. However, the elves also have superb magical attainments, and the upper elves have also weaved powerful magic webs.
But how did the blue dragons respond? They used the "Turbulent Needle" to destroy the elves' magic network, intensifying the conflict between dragons and elves over magic research.
It was not until the War of the Ancients and the split in ancient Kalimdor that the elves decided to abandon unnecessary magic and study the original Druid teachings. The dragons gave the elves eternal life through blessings.
In essence, this can be said to be an exchange of interests. The magical conflict seems to be over, but in fact?
As a result, the elves split, and some of the upper elves came to the kingdom and became the high elves of Quel'Thalas.
The high elves are still studying magic, and they have even found a way to deal with the "Turbulent Needle". Quel'Thalas now has such prosperous magic, but it is completely out of the blue dragon's control.
Moreover, the high elves and humans also derived their own management structures for magic: Tirisfal and the Kirin Tor.
It can be said that the two mainstream races that use magic in the world are completely autonomous when it comes to magic. What is the blue dragon guarding?
In addition to these, the Green Dragon has suffered the most serious encroachment on its authority.
After the great schism in ancient times, the dragons used the blessing of eternal life to make the elves give up magic. It seemed that the dragons had achieved a staged victory, but in fact this laid the foundation for the future.
The root cause of this problem is that the druids were allowed to enter the Emerald Dream.
The Emerald Dream records another Azeroth. That was the Azeroth that was purified after the guardians disintegrated the dark empire of the ancient gods in the ancient times.
In that Azeroth, except for the seeds of life sown by the guardians, there are no traces of human modification. The strong and wild wilderness demigods walk on the land, and everything is full of vitality.
This primitive Azeroth can be understood as a parallel projection of Azeroth. Except that life can see it in dreams, it does not interfere with the real world.
But if the real world suffers a serious impact and is about to collapse, the Emerald Dream can be integrated into the real world, restoring the collapsing world to its original state, and waiting for the next rise of prosperity.
In layman's terms, the Emerald Dream is a backup of Azeroth and the world's bottom line of security.
Logically speaking, such an unmodified original backup cannot allow other lives to enter except for the group of lives when it was created and the green dragon that guards it.
The natural and primitive wilderness demigods are deeply believed by druids. During the War of the Ancients, most of the wilderness demigods died in the battle with the Burning Legion.
The wilderness demigods no longer exist in the real world, but their projections still remain in the Emerald Dream.
In order to continue to listen to the teachings of the demigods of the wilderness, the druids began to frequently enter the Emerald Dream to understand the ways of nature. As time passed, the druids simply spent most of their time in the Emerald Dream.
In the end, the Emerald Dream, which belongs to the whole world, has become the actual territory of the Druid!
Druids not only live in dreams, but also resort to the Emerald Dream when they encounter problems that cannot be solved in the real world.
In history, there was a group of druids who went astray in their understanding of nature. They were unable to control the wild power of the wolf god Goldrinn, and turned into irrational and violent werewolves.
When other druids couldn't deal with this problem, they actually chose to exile those wolf-turned druids into the Emerald Dream.
If this may not have a serious impact on the Emerald Dream, the evil growing in the dark has truly damaged the foundation of the Emerald Dream!
Because the druids frequently enter the Emerald Dream, some twisted existences sneak in with them in places they are not aware of!
Those evil guys are secretly wreaking havoc and completely polluting the Emerald Dream!
The Emerald Dream is the greatest goodwill left by the guardian to this world. In normal times, it can bring beautiful dreams to life in the real world and nourish the spiritual world of life.
But it is because of this negligence that the beautiful dreams belonging to all races eventually turned into a dark nightmare!
To this day, if we count, the Bronze Dragon may be the only one who has not caused a major dereliction of duty under the influence of other races. Of course, the Bronze Dragon also has bigger problems, but that problem is a topic for a later time and cannot be classified with the current discussion.
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To sum up, during the 25,000 years since the establishment of the five dragon armies, they should have deepened their understanding of each race, achieved political mutual trust with certain races, and jointly completed the response to the crisis in this world.
But the fact is that problems arise one after another in the world, and in the process of solving problems, we often make a mess and bury many new problems.
Is it possible that this is the lifespan of the immortal species and brings them the greatest curse?
Their long lives have made them indifferent to time, and their response to problems is also frighteningly slow. However, the enemy will never take care of their slow pace. In order to destroy this world, the enemy will not give them a chance to breathe. They will launch attacks one after another.
Take this orc invasion as an example. If it weren't for the loss of the Demon Soul, the Red Dragon Legion might have been in the dark for a long time, completely unaware that this was another conspiracy planned by the Burning Legion.
The most terrible thing is Krasus. Although he entered the Kirin Tor Council as a mortal, his true identity is still a dragon.
Logically speaking, his perspective is higher than that of all human nations, but during the first Orc War, when faced with the Stormwind Kingdom's request for help from the north, he was blinded by the secret deception like other human beings.
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As the saying goes, in his position, he will seek his own government.
If the dragons really still take protecting the world as their duty, then they should show a serious attitude. But judging from the current environment, this is not a problem at all. The dragons must show a serious attitude.
Because in the current world, the dragons are responsible for the areas that only they are capable of. Whether it is the blessing of life by the red dragon, the purification of nature by the green dragon, or the control of time by the bronze dragon, only
they can.
Li De explained the above in as calm a tone as possible.
It's not that you're afraid of angering the red dragon, but if you want to solve practical problems, you can't just rely on excitement and strong tone to suppress people. Ordinary people are impatient to preach, let alone a group of dragons with long lifespans?
After throwing out his "violent theory", Li De only deduced it with strict logic and did not talk about the history that he should not know now.
This is the benefit of cultural cooperation with Zandalari. The history can be traced back to 16,000 years ago, and Zandalari believe in history, which allows Li De to interpret history more freely and spread his own opinions.
After Li De said this, there may still be quite a few red dragons who are unconvinced, but senior Red Dragon leaders such as Krasus, Trastrasza, and Defrestas all began to think seriously.
It can be said that it is unprecedented that the Red Dragon Society listens to the voice of the human race so carefully.
From the perspective of strength, Li De is insignificant in front of the giant dragon, but he is a heroic warrior and is as numerous as the sand in the Ganges River among the giant dragons.
But Li De spoke for his race as a leader of the human race and considered issues for the world of Azeroth. As long as the red dragon still recognized its identity as a guardian, they could not ignore it.