I understand that Jaania has a very cold personality, but I didn't expect her to be this cold. She ignored her two oldest acquaintances showing up and cared more about her homework than the two mages, and didn't seem to be the least bit bothered by her old friend emotionally unraveling, blowing up and turning into a skeleton. Also parts of her tower blew up. That too. And then she comes up with incredibly insensitive, pseudo-intellectual psychobabble that 13 year-old boys say to signal to everyone that they're badasses: "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." Saying something like that under normal circumstances makes you seem like a tryhard. Saying that when someone 10 feet away from you both implodes and explodes at the same time and as a result transforms into burning skeletor, well... Currently, Jaania has fascistic tendencies (and to think that she's considered the 'gentler' part of the Rose,) is emotionally dead, employs intense mental gymnastics to justify her and her organization's actions, acts like the 'benevolent' dictator in order to distance herself from the more brutal aspects of the Rose while at the same time failing to oversee the Rose in order to prevent systematic brutality carried out by her goons, and is an existential threat to all magical creatures in Lore. There's something comforting in dealing with a villain who knows that they're the villain, whose performative identity is nothing more than "to be ebil." But gone are the days of the simple, one-track minded 'big bads' like Sepulchure and the mysterious stranger. Jaania is a new, different threat.
I personally enjoy the complexity. Something fascinating about villains is how they often delude themselves into believing what they are doing is right.
I agree with both of you. I'm also banking on Akanthus not pulling a Mysterious Stranger, then suddenly Jaania sees the error of her ways. One thing I'd add is that she's delusional, and she knows it. She's trying to convince herself that she's doing the right thing, such that she ignores the obvious. Poor Xan, constantly trapped in a prison of his trauma and now the woman he loves doesn't even see him as a person.
I also love that these and past quests have made Jaania's progression into a villain very believable. Jaania subtly becomes more egotistical and tyrannical as she becomes more obsessed with her idea of creating a peaceful world free of pain and suffering. Jaania clearly made this plan in order to escape the pain she felt, but now she's utterly lost herself in her own work and she doesn't even care.
To be exact Sepulchure actually lost someone dear and he tried to find enough power to get that back but his NBoD which deluded seppy was controlled by mysterious stranger. He just made himself look as the big bad. Irismancer in the war at see told me this. Edit: Too bad he mispronounced his name..XD
Akanthus said it best Jaania. The world isn't against you, it just doesn't care. Why should it care about someone trying to create a world that it is inherently not? Why should it care when you clearly no longer care about what is truly important?...I think I should probably catch up on all of these quests. Additionally, I can't wait to see Jaania's face when Akanthus eventually front-stabs her :D
Idk...I think it would be pretty sweet if Akanthus does it. I really like it that they've fleshed out his character somewhat, and he isn't comically bad. He's ruthless, but it sounds like he doesn't really buy into Jaania's anti-magic puritanism and he's just using her...especially now that we've confirmed where he's from.
Jules Venson I won't deny that Jaania is smart but she's progressively becoming more delusional because she's stressing and blinding herself that only SHE can solve all of Lore's problems. We started to see signs of this happening at the royal party. Jaania believes she is the only hero of her story and everyone is either too egotistical to admit it or her enemy, unable to deal with the fact that she's likely becoming the problem. And that's why I like Dragonfable's story direction at the moment, because it's showing how people's reactions can change due to environment and circumstances, thus making the character more believable.
yeah, DragonFable's story became more... Realistic? Dramatic? Intense?, ever since the void saga where tomix ........ yep pretty intense. EDIT: and yeah, the fire orb saga was pretty intense too, but those characters aren't really a big loss, LOL not enough time given to them to let us attach those FEELS ya know!
So, like we thought Akanthus is the main force of all the Rose's cruel tactics. Still got to worry about Jaania and the effects of cutting off magic will do. Also Xan's kamikaze and Jaania's reaction to it, that's just cold.
Poor Alexander. All he wanted was to love Jaania. He even put so much trust into Warlic, regardless of their past, just to impress her with his new look. But the scars of the past were so deep for Jaania that she doesn't even care for him, regardless of change. Just seeing him laugh and burn himself into a skeleton was just painful to watch...
Love is not a switch, you cannot just turn it off and feel nothing. My theory is that she does indeed feel for him, but she's making the decision, the really unwise decision, to distance herself from those feelings, which translated poorly to Alexander.
If that's the case, then it couldn't ever have been love in the first place. Maybe I'm just being cheesily poetic, but love has a habit of surviving a LOT of abuse/neglect.
This quest exemplifies something i said in the Nest, that truthfully Jaania has lost all sympathy as a character, and has gone kind of crazy. Xan deserved better, my flaming skelebro
I find it funny that I said to the screen, "Don't worry Xan, all you got was the COLD shoulder." And then it did the pause and into blue fire. xD I'm laughing and feeling bad at the same time.
Actually if warlic could do ANYthing really useful and save him, it can still happen or open lots of news opportunitys. Tough after the final line I'm not exactly daring to have such high hopes, this is what I really wanted since we're freezed
Man dragonfable got intense it when from you making jokes in the beginning of book 1 to you getting frozen for over a dozen years in book 2 and now see xan almost kill himself in book 3
Great event, this was the worst meeting between "old friends". But it's sad how Alexander suffers greatly from the loss of his love. At least, he is not dead. Besides, I have a good feeling about this white fire in Alex, who knows this would not be the key to his cure?
you know after this quest, i hope our dragon eats jaania for an appetizer, with akanthus as the main course i really need to double check before i post a comment
Tabula Rasa - a theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception. Damn. When you think of the story between Jaania, Warlic and Alexander (Xan).
Holy fucking shit these quests are getting better week by week of release. Props to the DF for the story writing. Also, Alexander deserved better than this
I have to say as much as i understand Xan and i love him in one way or another , this is sadly the best ending for him .ITs better to go out like this rather than be evil madman with evil plans. I hope he's gone for good...Rip Alexander you'll always be a flame in my heart
I know that this has nothing to do with the video, but meh. I haven't played Dragonfable for a long time, and I came back maybe 3 months ago (I can't remember xD). Since I don't play it that much, can anyone tell me a good place to farm XP? It's kinda hard to complete those challenges from The Inn at the Edge of Time when ur not at the max level...
Go to falconreach and speak with Ash, he will have a quest called Challenge, when inside the quest use the big red button and kill the robot, you'll get tons of xp fast using an energy wep
