FFXIV Lore- What it Means to be a Dragoon 

I've always loved dragoons, because their response to flying enemies wasn't, "Let's develop powerful long-ranged weaponry," or "Let's practice effective long-range magic." No, it was, "Let's get so good at jumping we can stab them with a spear." What's not to love about that mindset?

I love how the Dragoon's progression is lore base. From Blood of the Dragon/Geirskogul, to Life of the Dragon/Nastrond, to Star Diver, it's all leading the Dragoon to be more Dragon-like, or to be more specific, Nidhoog-like.

Weekly Dragoon Training Schedule (Why most Ishgard Knights wash out of Dragoon training): Day 1: Leg Day Day 2: Leg Day Day 3: Leg Day Day 4: Leg Day Day 5: Leg Day Day 6: Leg Day Day 7: Leg Day

I can imagine a dragoon in training, great at the lance, the jump, but their landing… is reminiscent of George of the Jungle. A great lecture Professor.

One of my favorite parts about Dragoon's lore is that its a practical class. A practical response to a practical problem of war. Its a world of magic where a nation needs a reliable, low tech solution to kill flying enemies: Just fucking jump at em. It probably means that you'd find a weaker version of Dragoons active in the Azim steppe because they *also* need low tech solutions to fighting flying enemies, mounted Roc Riders. They lacked the power of two dragons to get the discipline started, but I would bet money a culture that decides to kill each other as a means of deciding political leadership is a crucible for fighting styles. I won't pretend that 'dragoon-lites' would be even half as strong as people juiced up by dragon magic, though.

Interesting to note how DRG is the only DPS I've come across that makes great use of the determination stat and how that makes a ton of sense given their fighting style as highlighted here. Glad to see this, Teach'.

I will always question why Rouges and not Dragoons take less fall damage. Great video and as always great art.

Some Dragon: You can fly?!?! First Dragoon: No, jump good!

I cant wait for dragoons to get blast off into space when they try to use jump on the moon

Lancer/Dragoon wasn't the job that I started as but once I tried it, it was an instant "click" of "oh, this is what I'm here to do." Plus Dragoons have a great look. I like this lore dive! Thank you very much.

DRG really has the best cohesion between its gameplay loop and its lore, especially from a leveling perspective. A really fun mix between your unorthodox experience as an adventuring lancer and an azure dragoon.

As a dragoon main I love this video thank you.

i ADORE the watercolor sequences you do, they're so pretty

I think dragoon is the only job ppl should level before going into an expansion. I dunno if there’s different cutscenes but it seems to be tied deeply to heavensward as a whole.

I love that you explain the lore behind dragoons dying so often due to animation lock. And the lore makes complete sense for the same reason it happens in gameplay.

I'm waiting for the Dragoon job quest where Hraesvelgr is involved and the title becomes Holy Dragoon. Considering we're getting Kain's Holy Dragoon armor as a tomestone set in Endwalker, it's not out of the realm of possibility that we'll have the title in Endwalker or the following xpac.

i feel like endwalker's armor set is going to be the natural evolution and mastery of all the rediscovered crafting techniques after everyone had to relearn how to do them

Falling with Style.

I just started doing Dragoon not too long ago and am loving it! Thank you so much for this deep dive!

I just discovered your channel a couple hours ago and already I’m binging videos. Incredibly well done and so very informative! Thank you for explaining the lore of the world we all love!

My starting job and still the one dearest to me. Love your lore videos.

The pride of Ishgard...

There were a few tidbits that I think you missed First off, during the dragonsong war at least, it's stated by one of the Dragoons that they're not actually that great with Lancework... Suffering a crippling overspecialization as their training helps them to fight airborne or otherwise large enemies. Grounded enemies or enemies the size of Humans are a bit harder to hit with Jumps, thereby making Dragoons a bit less effective against them. The primary character of the 50-60 quests wants to train *under* us because we've effectively blended Gridanian Lancework with Ishgardian Dragoon styles. It does show in some segments of the game as well, as certain Dragoons even at full power don't quite fight with the poise and grace of a Lancer Furthermore, you neglected to mention in any way the existence of the Dragon Soul inside of each Dragoon, and how they dominate it to achieve their jumps to begin with. It's also a source of their greatest drawbacks, as the Dragon Soul does not like being forced to use its power against Dragons, and is always in conflict with the Dragoon to try and take control and turn them into a Dragon themselves. Dragoons themselves are trained not only from Knights, but also primarily from children whose villages were razed by Dragons, using their sheer rage to temper their power and make them that much more effective. However, when the Dragon Soul is able to cooperate with the Dragoon - which we start to see towards level 60 - it confers far greater power. In regular Dragoons, this is usually unobtainable as their Dragon Soul isn't that strong, but through consuming Dragon's Blood it grows stronger and more akin to one of the First Brood... Conferring power closer to the level of the Azure Dragoon With that in mind, one must also consider the brief effect "Life of the Dragon", which I can only speculate involves the Dragon Soul briefly *taking over* the body to enable the use of far more potent forms of Geirskogul and the Jump. It's through the cooperation of the two souls that enable them to effectively fight in a battle-trance, though never for longer than 30 seconds. Finally, I believe it's worth mentioning the existence of the "Blood Dragoons" following the Dragonsong War. Titles bestowed upon Dragoons who forge bonds with Dragons, and are granted specially crafted armor from the Dragon in question. These Dragoons are, functionally speaking, stronger than the Azure Dragoons due to the strength of their Dragon soul and the mutual cooperation they have achieved by no longer slaying Dragons out of hatred Just some thoughts I had while watching. Very enjoyable watch though

I will always be grateful for choosing Lancer as my starting class in FFXIV. Everything about the dragoon’s journey of loss and moving forward resonates with me especially since Kain in FFIV. Heavensward surprised me in the fact that it made that choice better than I could have even imagined. GREAT VIDEO!! ❤❤

Now I want to be a Dragoon. Great lesson as per always, professor.

great vid! loved the script and the amazing artwork! also still learned a lot even as a dragoon main myself

Love having the title The Blood Dragoon.

Dragoon is my 1st class and even after doing other classes in XIV I always fit right back into that class. My char is Dragoon through & through.

What’s this a new video! And it’s about my main job, welp here’s an instant like because I know you’ll do the job justice

Your lance is the lance that will pierce the heavens!

Perfect as usual. I was waiting for this one, thank you so much!! Warrior next please!

While I never took DK nor DRG jobs, it's nice to see that these jobs can be acquired on the same place, Ishgard.. It's like it's paying respects to Kain and Cecil. Also that attack animation 11:29 is Cecil's..

Discovered these videos the other day. Fantastic work! It's really appreciated.

I just got my dragoon to 80, thank you for this video, teacher ☺️

Yes as much as our will is for the sky we also all need to remember to all my fellow dragoons that we must keep whatever is hiding down in the bottom pits of Titans arena in check. For if that thing ever arises it will destroy all of Eorzea. ( do not take this as a serious thing I am just making fun of that us dragoons we always fall in the pit at Titan at least once in our whole career. It's kind of like a ceremonial thing at this point because this is where you would get the backflip and if you use a backflip there in the fight you'll fall in the pit. So like I said do not take what I said serious but to one Dragoon to another keep your spear sharpen and keep your head high to the sky for our adventure will never be over.)

I am having so many emotions about this. Like, I have loved dragoon from the first moment of playing it, and always looked at it from a gameplay perspective as opposed to how they operate within the world. I am blown away with the history because I've either forgotten these facts or completely missed them (or they weren't there in what I've played). This is so awesome, thank you ^♡^

The only thing you forgot is how the armors of dragoons are full of spikes because they would pierce the throat of dragons trying to eat them. Otherwise, incredible lesson, as always.

The life of the floor tank is one of perpetual challenge and landslides... but one Dragoon mains live and die for....

I like how in FFXIV the Dragoon has a canonical transition from one of the forms Dragoons took in older games; a slayer of dragons, to the other; a Dragon Rider. That's just neat. Though I believe it's not the first time the franchise has had Dragoons transition from one to the other in a single setting.

Y'know, the bit about dragon blood and dragon fire used in metalworking makes me wonder: if some dragons decided to donate decidedly nonlethal amounts of blood - like a blood drive but with dragons - and the smiths of Ishgard had access to both dragon fire to smelt their metal and dragon blood to quench it, how much stronger would that make the arms and armor? Presumably a lot, right?

I only found your channel today and I was looking for a dragoon video in your back log some good timing

We can’t reach the enemy! Do we use archers? No. Magic? No. Guns????? No. We jump really high. By god

I really love ur video especially the way explain how the abilities work with aether manipulation

Loving the videos! Keep it up Mr. Scribe 😊

Very cool piece. I was just curious about the lore but now I'm definitely gonna give this game and class a try!

Great video! Since we are going to Garlemald in Endwalker, could we get a lesson on Garlean society?

I never knew being a dragoon was so risky lol. I think this video has given me a newfound respect and appreciation for the class as a whole.

Thank you very much for this video! It was nice to finally see a DRG video that does the class proud. 👏 🐉

It means supporting a war that the god king pope lied to you about,being completely incapable of dodging aoe's,and NEVER being able to outdo estinien in skill and sexiness no matter how hard you try.

Just glad the armor no longer provides a penalty to MDef.

This is so neat! I hope you can do Blue Mages at some point!

Nice TTGL reference at the end. Also good video ^^

been waiting for this one !! :D

I can’t wait to see videos like this for Sage and Reaper once EW comes out and we have a fuller understanding of their lore.

Can’t wait to see gunbreaker!! My favorite job and dancer too

Coming back to this. My second character started as Lancer and naturally progressed to Dragoon. But at lvl 53 I discovered Red Mage and switched to that. Yet I couldn’t quite let go of Dragoon and continued to level it to 60. Even then with the conclusion of the Dragonsong War I was going to have her put down the Lance for this new era of peace. And yet I keep going. The rdm-drg lol.

This was AWESOME!! Thank you for making this! I've been a Lancer/Dragoon main since I started playing(late Shadowbringers), and it's become one of my top favorite classes. The lore, emotion, and weight behind the class is far outshadowed by memes and jokes around the class, and I've had a hard time trying to convince friends to play or stick with the class. Little side thing, in my opinion, it's a damn shame they got rid of Blood of the Dragon. It was one of the coolest parts of the class, in my opinion, especially since it blended so well into Red Eye Mode. I just wish they would have made it similar to, say, a Dancer's gauge, where you wouldn't loose your charges even if the timer ran out, instead of just removing the ability alltogether. I miss getting to roar like a dragon into combat. 😭

My first main. Besides DarkKnight it still is: It´s just so unique

Shit there was a poll? I would'a voted if I knew there was one. Great job as always sensei, thanks for the lesson :)

Love this art style!

Yaaaay my favourite class!

Hey dope videos! gives alot of insight on the world of ff14. The dragoon is one of my favorite classes. When you can I'd love to see the lore of the monk

I still believe the Spikes on the armor arent just funny spikes but act like wings to let them manuver around, makes the flips and dips they do more realistic

Another great video!

"Nidhogg went into a blind rage" I see what you did there.

I always wondered what happened to Ratatoskr's eyes, they said Thordan took them but its not seen anywere in the history or lore

Love that you included animation lock deaths in the training lore 😂

Ever see a dragoon backflip off an island in the Sea of Cloud in an attempt to slay a flying whale? Quite the sight.

2:10 ... is what I would like to think after all the times I've jumped off the platform in trials

Dragoon is basically just "We're not flying, we're jumping in ⭐style⭐"

I will continue to climb higher. I will continue to jump further. I am the pride of Ishgard. I am the lance of coerthas. I... am a dragoon.

man call me what ever but I have been a long time healer main in most games until recently where I now just want to dps and see big numbers. Its honestly shocking how much more I am enjoying dragoon compared to any other class in ffxiv. Then after watching the lore on dragoon it has made me feel some how even more connected to the job. I love that Dragoons are so brave, courages and strong. While fear might be present they show no fear. Its something that really resonates with me lately and its something that has helped me in my own personal growth. So its pretty neat how my current path in life where I am pushing myself more and more is somewhat similar to my main dragoon who never shows fear and is brave all the way through.

I'm really excited to know the lore of Sage!

MY SPEAR IS THE SPEAR THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEVEANS!!! -Simon The Dragoon From Gurren Lagann

I wonder what would happen if a Dragon focused its evolution to emulate the techniques and fighting style of a Dragoon. We've already seen evidence of Dragons having the capability of evolving to something in order to better effectively copy mortal ingenuity in the form of a crafting Dragon in the Firmament. So it would be amazing to see a Dragon attempt to emulate a Dragoon someday. :D

What weeds out the dragoon is those that can deal with the action lock. Those that fail... Well they die to AOE.

considered the Og dragoon lore back there in ff 2 Dragoons were originally Soldiers That rode Wyrms to battle, The spear and jump motiff only arrived in ff 3 where they were turned into the infamous Dragon hunters that were imbued with the power of said dragons

So Nidhogg couldve beaten Allag is what you're saying? So if Bahamut and Tiamat asked their brother Nidhogg to step in, then Bahamut wouldn't have died.

Thank you

Dude, you deserve sou many more subscribers!

I'd really love a warrior one of these ...also with a bunny boi on the art that part is the dream tho 😁

Beginning of the Abilities section: Wait, did this video just Lore-Justify Dragoon's Floor-Tanking?

This was perfect inspiration for a dragoon elden ring build :)

DRG's and DRK's are easily the 2 most badass jobs with the most badass backstories. It's good that I main both in their respective roles.

As both a drg/mnk main, please do a video on monk!

Always good to point out that Dragoons have another, equally important job aside from tanking those nasty and dangerous floors.

Dragoon armor is spiky so to make it harder for dragons to swallow them

Thank you great video when youre trying to RP 8 characters

You should do podcasts. I love these lore videos.

I love how the old floor tank reputation due to animation locks is directly acknowledged in the lore, or, rather, as part of the class design. The jumps really are an inherently risky proposition. I always thought of it more as an annoyance other classes don’t have to deal with (except Black Mages and Ninjas, to some degree) but really it’s a storied part of our history! It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! 😂

we DRG's might be memed to high heavens (lol) but damn, do we have drip and and an entire expansion dedicated to us. Amazing work as always!

Monk: my body is a weapon Ninja: I fight with trickory and precision. Dragoon: J U M P

Elusive jump is casted. Dragon: why do I hear boss music? Healer: why do I have to waste my pocket rezz? Dragoon: why do I only get 1 charge of the most badass skill in the game?

Question: how does the WoL still have dragoon abilities without the eyes or being fused with the eyes like Estinien?

Awesome.

16:51 *Libera Me From Hell intensifies*

hell yeah im gooning out

i'm gonna have to play dragoon now

im a proud dragoon and a tank :) and sometimes i survive too :D.. do you know why dragoons armor is so pointy? so that if a dragon eats you, you can still kill him on the way out :D

I think it was actually Bahamut who was the most powerful of Midgardsomir’s children, not Nidhogg. Unless you meant Nidhogg is the most powerful of Midgardsormir’s still living children in which case, probably.