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lonesparkThere's a lot of parallels in The Dragon Prince, especially in terms of characterization, but also scenes and dialogue and and and... It's nifty and artaline wrote an awesome meta about generational parallels here: artaline.tumblr.com/post/178976249738/tdp-season-1-thoughts
Sometime soon I wanna write some stuff about the extremist mentor parallels between Viren and Runaan.
But today I started thinking about parallels in events across centuries.
Viren escalating the war is kind of similar to the human expulsion from Xadia. In both cases a real event that occurred and was bad is used to justify something monstrous, targeting tons of innocent people and affecting a lot of history. And in both cases we don't know
1. Exactly what happened
2. What it was in reponse to
3. Who was involved and what they stood to gain
We probably won't find all that stuff out re: OG Dark Mage times, tho how freaking cool would it be if they did include a lot of that in the story?
Sometime soon I wanna write some stuff about the extremist mentor parallels between Viren and Runaan.
But today I started thinking about parallels in events across centuries.
Viren escalating the war is kind of similar to the human expulsion from Xadia. In both cases a real event that occurred and was bad is used to justify something monstrous, targeting tons of innocent people and affecting a lot of history. And in both cases we don't know
1. Exactly what happened
2. What it was in reponse to
3. Who was involved and what they stood to gain
We probably won't find all that stuff out re: OG Dark Mage times, tho how freaking cool would it be if they did include a lot of that in the story?
