Talk:Dragon/@comment-33177490-20170216055127

Unlike in YGGDRASIL where dragons are considered to be the all-mighty powerful permanently, their special role as being the strongest race is now completely overtaken by the players upon arrival in the New World. To be exact, this means players like Ainz who happens to fear only dragons alone "due to experiences with YGGDRASIL dragons." Quoting "the central World Enemy of YGGDRASIL, the final boss, the Devourer of the Nine Worlds, was a great dragon," meant that a required number of players are needed in order to take it down.

Funny enough, it almost felt as if their position is reverse now, which the Eight Greed Kings aka players became the final boss and strongest enemy "race" (called by Evileye) faced among Dragon Lords. This is because 500 years ago, many powerful Dragon Lords from the past have actually banded together to take down the Eight Greed Kings. Although this hasn't been said in the LN, but in the WN instead, "it has taken about a number of ten Dragon Lords to defeat one member of the Eight Greed Kings" shows how much of their role has changed.

Basically, YGGDRASIL dragons may be the strongest enemy race undisputedly to players, but players don't see it that way with NW dragons. The NW dragons on the other hand viewed the players as a very powerful adversary and existential threat to their dominance (PDL conversation). Of course, which is merely temporary for now before the PDL is pulled into an Ainz confrontation. Nevertheless, players are the ones dominating the NW and not the dragons in that sense.