Afterword
I hope you guys enjoyed my little story. Fun fact, the timeline is (mostly) true, to the best of my knowledge. The writing is a bit sloppy, I get it, but I hope it was forgivable.
I wanted to write about the dragons because I wanted to see something different. I decided to try and make my story a believable take on what the Age of Dragons looked like. A fellow Overlord fanatic from the Overlord Discord server, Ziggy, has been a big help in understanding the origins of Maruyama's take on dragons. Thanks, Ziggy!
There are a few underlying assumptions that I have about the New World during the Age of Dragons, as speculated by some of us in the Discord server. Namely, one is that levels did not exist prior to the arrival of the Six Great Gods. This is because we assume that the New World was organic, and strength was not a set of quantifiable stats that one can measure. Another assumption we had made was that the undead did not exist in the New World prior to the arrival of the Six Great Gods. I had learned of this theory after I had worked on Chapter 3, which had put a slight wrench in my plans. If you thought Chapter 3 wasn't very good, I apologize! I had to make a lot of changes. Chapter 3 also had a mistake about introducing a shadow dragon, which theoretically shouldn't exist in Maruyama's New World, but it was the best way for me to adjust the story. The shadow dragon existed in my original plan, but he wasn't supposed to be revealed.
I won't be writing about the actual fights between the Eight Greed Kings and the dragons. I don't want to make eight characters that was not faithful to the actual canon lore, and the fact that Maruyama has never released much information about the players who made the most impact on the New World makes this all the more aggravating.
In terms of strength, if my dragons existed in the NW of today, the leaders of the Four Great Houses would be over level 100. These phenomenally powerful dragons were the "True" Dragon Lords of their time, with strengths nigh unrivaled. Had they banded together, perhaps even the Eight Greek Kings wouldn't have stood a chance. Hinod is also over level 100. Does he remind you of anyone? Yasilithi and his fellow Knights are all in the level 90-95 range. They would've put up a good fight against players, but alas, they lack skills and talent in Wild Magic to ever truly defeat a player. They're probably more akin to high level mobs in YGGDRASIL. The average strength of normal dragons range from level 75-85. They're strong enough to overpower any other race in the world, but never strong enough to raise up to Lordship. Keep in mind that these are just my personal estimates, and that the dragons don't actually have any levels. A stronger dragon can certainly die to a weaker dragon in combat. This was made evident when Teverin drew blood from his father, despite the supposed sheer difference in their levels, if they were in YGGDRASIL.
Speaking of Teverin and Hinod... I wonder if they actually ever fought? That's for me to know, and you to find out! Thanks for reading my little fic. Perhaps I will make another one with a proper OC of mine one day.
-Peronronchino's Dad