Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31365092-20170724123007/@comment-26144500-20171010002350

On the other hand, I do like Septan's idea. While this is a case just like the multiverse one, as in without much foundation, this one is at least more grounded and the timeframe works out as well.

As such, for this one I'm interested in speculating for the heck of it.

Here's what sprouted in my head when I read Septan's comment (in no particular order):

- Wild Magic seems to be linked to the control of souls(your own and possibly interracting with that of others).

- From the way the Dragon Emperer is mentioned, in relation to PDL and to the historical context, it is very likely that he is already dead. Yet, he is still mentioned(even if that might only be in referrence to PDL's superior lineage even among Dragon Lords). 

- So, who killed him? Or how did he die? And to answer this we should probably also take into consideration that he is still considered of enough relevance to be mentioned in the present(NW) as a qualifier making PDL in a greater light. 

Then, if he died without being killed, was it a result of a ritual to do something we've yet to learn about, with that ritual accidently ending up in linking the souls of people in Yggdrasil to the NW? But then there's the problem of if it went like that it would have preceded the arrival of the Six Gods(who might have just heard about it later). <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0cm;">Then if he was killed, was it by the six gods? Or was he one of those who fought and died against the EGKs? If it's the latter, then the Theocracy would have gotten the chance to know more about him, and if it's the former, then they would have learned more about him from myths of his battle with their gods. <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;">

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0cm;">Heck, we don't even know if the only one of the Six Gods who died in combat was Surshana. The Dragon Emperer might have killed one of the Six Gods before being killed by them, and this would have likely made it so that the Dragon Emperer and his lineage(here as PDL) as being worthy of being respected/feared and thus likely to be a somewhat big presence in the oral traditions of the Theocracy, which in turns would give more relevance to the leaders of the Theocracy in the present to mention the Dragon Emperer's lineage as a qualifier for PDL even though all of the people present certainly already knew about it without it needing to be said.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;">And now I've noticed that I've gone a bit off-topic(still on the Dragon Emperor, but I went away from the "summoning of the first players" thing). And so, back on that, it would be cool if the Dragon Emperor was indeed the one who linked the souls of many Yggdrasil players(though probably accidently as he might have been trying to accomplish something else by touching souls outside of his own world). And like I've mentioned above, if this is what happened then I find it more likely that he didn't die from doing that and that he instead might have died when fighting players like the Six Gods or th Eight Greed Kings.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;">Though at the end of the day, whether the Dragon Emperer did it or not doesn't really matter much to me, as I'm more interested in his relevance and historical context in the NW. As such, most of what I've written above in this comment might still stand even if the DE didn't summon the players.

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