Topic: The Dracolich is a lie!

[Dracula9]

I noticed something after another playthrough of the lovely monster today. I'm sure this has been noted before, but just in case, I must express my disappoint.

It says in the Dracolich's bestiary entry that it was alive in prehistoric times (which also contradicts the Biblical 2000-year time passage thanks to the Christian God's inclusion) and was presumably long-dead by the time intelligent humans came around. It was also located in the near-uninhabitable Necromancer's Abyss, which also would make it hard for humans to get remotely close to it.

Why is all this a problem? You can see swords and spears sticking out of its bones. If it was dead before we got here, and no human save Gabriel was able to reach its corpse, how did weapons get in it?

Logical fallacy, thy name is Dracolich Titan.

[Lelygax]

What is the life-span of a Dracolich?

[Ratty]

I haven't played any of the LoS games but Lely is right, if it's an ancient monster it's had plenty of time for unsuccessful would-be monster hunters to stick weapons in it.

[TheouAegis]

Not all Christians believed in 2000 year time passages. That's just something Catholics fabricated. Maybe Jews before them, but still, it's a niche belief.

[Dracula9]

I'm aware of that. I'm simply going by the book because I've found that typically is the safest way to refer to the religion without stepping on too many toes.

But regardless of the Dracolich's post-death age, it just became fossilized in that mountain/rock after it died, right? It's not been flying around for thousands of years wreaking havoc, has it? There's no real mention of that happening, IIRC. I can't find its damn bestiary entry on the Internet for the life of me. Every other monster, yes, just not him.

[Pfil]

Is the Dracolich a domesticable animal?
Because I'm totally into pets, and I've been thinking about getting a rare animal for my mom so when I visit her I have a rare pet.
Someone have any experience on this?

[Aridale]

they make awesome pets for riding around and traveling

[Lelygax]

Also they are prehistoric, imagine how many tricks he will have learned in all these years

[Ahasverus]

Not all Christians believed in 2000 year time passages. That's just something Catholics fabricated. Maybe Jews before them, but still, it's a niche belief.

lol yeah where did you get that stuff OP? the internet?
And as you can see other brotherhood wariors got as far as the land of the dead, perhaps the dracolich was awakened for some of them, too.

[Mooning Freddy]

Biblical calendar? Don't know about what you're talking about, but according to the Jewish faith, the world is 5774 years old, and I think the Christians inherited that calendar, so....

As for trying to make sense of monster descriptions in Castlevania, this is doomed to fail.

[e105beta]

Young earth creationism is, currently, almost solely held by American Protestants. Seeing as this game was made by Spaniards, I highly doubt they were thinking of that when they threw in all the Catholicism.

[beingthehero]

And even then it's mostly held by the more radical evangelicals, and there aren't that many of them as commonly depicted in the media.

[X]

Biblical calendar? Don't know about what you're talking about, but according to the Jewish faith, the world is 5774 years old, and I think the Christians inherited that calendar, so....

Whomever dictated this to others obviously failed his final Math exam. Human civilization has been around far, far longer then 5774 years. If you believe in the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria (I do and the evidence is growing) then you're looking at a time scale of humanity to be around 10 million years old. And the Earth itself even longer; 4.5 billion years. It may be their faith but it's very vague and nonsensical (no offense to any Jewish people who might be here and yes I also have Jewish blood in me too, but I choose to exorcise my god-given freedom of will rather then blindly following what others tell me). This is just one of the many reason why I don't do religion.

As for the Dracolich's history, yeah it doesn't make any sense. Then again LoS on the whole doesn't make sense either. But that's not the game's fault. Cox and Mercurysteam made it like that so it's all on their heads.

[Chernabogue]

Heh, it's a game.

[Lelygax]

Heh, it's a game.

Best answer ever.