Are Dracthyr true Dragons? Examining the Evidence

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This is the answer and We had this kind since Vanilla.

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So straight up this is a theory

Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if Neltharion experimented on Dragon eggs adding in the essences of different flights and obviously the mortal races somehow basically making them a sort of Dragon Polymorph

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Yeh, that generally what I lean towards too. I am just curious since we do have instances of Dragonkin in other media with short lifespans who were created to be a servant/warrior kind of race. Those being the Dragonborn from DnD. Er, also short is about Humanish, if they don’t die early.

For that matter, I wonder how long the Drakonid live too… 0_o

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Lots of good thoughts/points here.

I think one of the issues for figuring out their origins is that the term “essence” is so vague. Like, what does it mean to have a mortal’s “essence”, or the dragonflights’ “essence”? Does it mean magic, or DNA, or a template, or just a form of inspiration? It seems like it could be anything from putting an actual dragon and mortal in a particle collider and fusing them together, or starting with a mortal and giving them dragon powers, or starting with a dragon and giving them mortal traits, or just taking a bunch of dna/magic and putting it in a blender as Mardrigala said.

I agree that secretly sequestering eggs to experiment on is kinda sketchy for pre-evil Neltharion, unless they were his own eggs or he got permission from whatever flight the egg belonged to first.

Spoilers That being said, while there are indications the Dracthyr were a secret from the Dragonflights at large, at least Malygos and Nozdormu seem to have known about them. Since there is datamined text of Malygos confronting Neltharion about the Dracthyr before they were put into stasis (and later sends his servants to kill them), and Nozdormu knew to go to the Forbidden Reach to rescue the Dracthyr from the Primalists at the end of the starting zone. So while it's debatable whether they would have actually contributed eggs from their flights for Neltharion's experiments, we do potentially have knowing/willing egg donors from at least the Black, Blue, and Bronze dragonflights.