Talk:Dragon/@comment-112.198.79.127-20151202024554/@comment-27557332-20160124010808

Actually, respawn is a very appropriate term. We know they can have children, what we aren't aware of is what constitutes a 'Dragon Lord'...

Is it just a title? Are they unique? According to the names they very well may be. Is there a set number of them? For this purpose: 'respawn' is just a bastardization of 'reincarnation' (Think of them as NW 'NPCs'... the equivalent of the Nazarick NPCs... remember the fact that Nazarick is now contained 'within' the NW, and what that may mean regarding scope.)

If those so-called 'children' are in fact 'reincarnated', they would be roughly like Shalltear is possibly in a superior form... they would retain the majority of thier memories concerning 'Players'... and they would NOT be friendly to them seeing as how they were probably killed in the past. Add in the possibility that some outside force may or may not be fueling them and it changes the situation entirely.

The reasons why I think this way: We know something is still affecting Ainz (I should actually say Satoru, since it's a direct effect on the *mind* within the character body), whatever power or immunity he supposedly has notwithstanding. It's DIRECTLY affecting his feelings, unlike when it was just a game. Is it just a racial effect like he assumes... or is it an outside force? Or is it an outside force enforcing the racial effect? The power (ANY power. Including Ainz' and the NPCs abilities) itself comes from some place. Nothing is spontaneously generated. In a game, it comes from the system and is governed by a set of rules... which has nothing to do with the in-game setting and story, that's just a cover, even though it is a nice one...

If we go full worst case scenario... the real reason Players enter the NW every 200 years: Are they just the fuel the NW uses to grow and progress. The way the story goes, this seems very much the truth. In the end, no matter how things go... everything all goes to the same place in the end.