#sol regem

[aidaita]

Sol Regem (at his prime) from The Dragon Prince

More color pencils art!

#avia art #my art #art #Fanart #Traditional art #Dragons #The dragon prince #Sol regem

[dashaskywheels]

The majestic Sol Regem - the lord of the Sun ☀️

✨ The art was ready in August 2023, and for August month in the Year of the Dragon calendar (Mult Kalendar zine). The last month of summer - sunset.

#artists on tumblr #art #painting #illustration #digital art #digital painting #digital illustration #aesthetic #dragon #dragon art #european dragon #space #space art #stars #eldritch #sun #sunset #sol regem #the dragon prince #dragon prince

[sunfire-shield]

Karim really is astonishingly good at missing the point entirely isn’t he. “I lost my hope long before I lost my sight,” Sol Regem tells him, but Karim’s takeaway is “Blindness has made Sol Regem bitter.” Like dude, do you actually listen when people talk?

#like yeah getting blinded did add to it all #but Sol Regem is quite specific and Karim’s like uhh sorry wasn’t listening #the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #the dragon prince spoilers #Karim #tdp karim #sol regem #tdp sol regem

[m4rs-ex3]

oh come now did these have to go THAT hard

#i get so wrapped up in the complex characterization that i forget this show has fucking cool ass dragons #like i will hear no one out these are the dragons of all time #sol regem #tdp #the dragon prince

[ac0531]

New comic XD

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp season 4 #sol regem #rex igneous

[raayllum]

swear to god if mr little “i can fix everything” prince karim brings sol regem to the corrupted core in an attempt to purge it and accidentally gets sol regem, an already massively powerful angry archdragon, zombified, i will 

#tdp spoilers #prince karim #sol regem #s5 speculation #predictions #s5 #arc 2 #mine #text post #s5 spoilers #janai: i exile you for FIVE MINUTES

[tategaminu]

I just think they are neat :)

Fun fact, Sol has been on my Procreate files since December 2019, it just took me 4 years to finish it, very wow much speed

#he looked ugly as hell tho #like revisiting a drawing after 4 years is truly something #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp fanart #sol regem #luna tenebris #dragon #fantasy #the dragon prince fanart #my art

[littlegreengent]

love that every season of tdp a new archdragon is introduced and the story hypes them up to be this legendary ancient powerful fearsome creature and then they talk and it’s just the mythical equivalent of a depressed 40 year old that’s waiting for the sweet release of retirement.

#rex igneous #domina profundis #HEAVY ON #sol regem #zubeia and avizandum #it’s actually perfect imo #like yes show that immortality and immense responsibility WOULD IN FACT fuck u up #the dragon prince #tdp #not including Luna cause she’s not talked about enough but I assume this applies to her too

[strawberryqueen00]

I’m sorry to be rude but if you’re not excited for Sol Regem to be back in the plot I don’t trust you.

His story in Season 2 has been one of the most complex and interesting and as either another antagonist or uneasy ally he’s great for the story they’re telling this season.

Sol Regem is the perfect representation of the conflict between humans and elves going too far on both sides. Further considering that Aaravos helped humans learn dark magic THE THING THAT STARTED THE CONFLICT THAT LEAD TO HIS BLINDNESS bringing him back is a wonderful choose if they choose to explore that plot point.

But even it they don’t the fact they’re setting up a Viren redemption that contrast beautifully with Sol Regem’s personal philosophy of humans being unable to change after all these years from his trauma.

And the potential of meeting Callum and Rayla again! Seeing a human use primal magic! Possibly fighting the Dragon Queen if she doesn’t get uncorrupted, BECOMING CORRUPTED HIMSELF? GETTING MANIPULATED BY AARAVOS!

There is no way for them to mess Sol Regem up. I don’t care if you think he’s rude or annoying he’s one of the most important characters to being into this story for the magic and human conflict they’re building.

#the dragon prince #season 5 spoilers #tdp #tdp s5 #sol regem #berry half rants

[photoniccyclone]

Soooo...I know Wonderstorm are planning a tragic backstory for Sol, but If that backstory makes humans at fault for how he was, it will not be cannon to SFR. I don't want this all to blamed on humans again lmao. I'm actually just perfectly content with letting Sol be bad. He's a perfect representation of the bad side of Xadia currently and I wouldn't have him any other way.

I just wanted to say that so that there's no confusion if the backstory does turn out to be something like that.

#the dragon prince #tdp #sol regem #sun fueled rage #sol regem backstory has me a little nervous ngl #I honestly don't think he needs a tragic backstory #just let my guy be bad lol

[aidaita]

Self indulgent doodle with another color pencil art! Been watching Dragon Prince and now I caught up.

#avia art #my art #fanart #traditional art #Dragon prince #sol regem #doodle

[theredhairedmonkey]

So, two things can be true at once:

It can be true that dark magic is generally not a good thing, represents a sinister and corrupting influence, and generally depletes and harms the person casting it.

It can also be true that the representative powers of Xadia 1000 years ago didn't much care about these things outside of a pretext, since the real reason their reaction was so hostile was as follows:

There's always been a tension between the fact that Xadia hated dark magic to such an extent centuries prior that all uses were considered horrifying, but in the present you have individual elves like Finnegrin and Terry (both wildly different in temperament and morality) who are completely fine with it. But while I hesitate to use ToX as a canon source, this one line above is key to breaking the paradox - dark magic indeed leads to terrible things...for the caster. But the real concern from Xadia (at least from actors like Sol Regem) is how it disrupted the balance of power where the arch dragons were on top and humans were on the bottom. This is why elves like Terry and Finnegrin - people with no real stake in the status quo - have no qualms about it.

Because like dark magic itself, the motive in Xadia behind opposing it really came down to power.

#tdp #the dragon prince #dark magic #terry #claudia #finnegrin #sol regem

[viviski]

I translated dragon language from the finale, 100% totally legit

#tdp spoilers #tdp #the dragon prince #zubeia #rex igneous #sol regem #tdp memes

[darkmagicmirror]

I've been thinking about @spicyviren 's post about Claudia preventing the sun from rising (and they made a more in-depth post today as well, which is also very good!), so last night I got curious and Googled mythology and eclipses because what if the eclipse actually happens and it's not just Viren's dream? And we know TDP likes mythological references. So...

This is so fascinating because of the "I swallowed her" comment Aaravos makes in Janai's dream.

A demon (or dragon, or-- (etc)) is eating the sun?

(*Personally, I don't think Janai's dream is necessarily accurate for telling us what happened -- but Aditi getting "eaten" by someone especially a dragon wouldn't surprise me.)

And speaking of "swallowing"...

And some of the other mythological explanations mentioned in the article I linked are also really interesting:

(The highlighting was done by Google, so it's not necessarily more important.)

And canon material, especially the Ripples short specifically, reflects a few themes here:

Abandonment - the humans are essentially abandoned by the stars (and the sun is a star): "It cannot be, wept others. The stars would not betray us!" - after the "star" falls from the sky and changes the land.

Crisis/existential threat - "With its impact came a long and terrible night: The earth bled! The seas churned! The sun and moon hid for weeks behind the sky’s screaming storm!" (Also bolded for emphasis because the sun hiding? The fact the moon does too is interesting, but the sun specifically is called out later: "And when the long, dark night had finally passed—for the sun must always rise, mustn’t it?" VERY interesting considering the sunrise mentions in S5.)

Eclipse as an act of creation - though much of the story talks about the calamity, there's also how "[the stars] had rejoiced to look down upon their newborn sea."

The Sun and Moon coupling and creating more stars - this is more of a stretch, but the Sun and Moon did get hidden together, and the Sea (of the Castout) serving as a mirror of the stars... like they're duplicating the stars, though only in image.

Mischievous acts - I personally think Aaravos is mischievous, so hmm.

One side note on the second-to-last point: if Viren learns the Star arcanum, which is very rarely understood, could that, too, be analogous to creating another star?

Anyway this all implies that perhaps a similar eclipse occurred before, when Aaravos had fallen and the Sea of the Castout was created? And we know how the Rise Again short story, which is about her pseudo-resurrection of her pet cat, correlated to S4 opening with Claudia having brought her father back to life, sort of in a repeating history sense. Aaravos's Patience story foreshadowed the fact that all he could do in S4 is wait and bide his time. Ripples could foreshadow S5 being that first "touch" that sets off greater change... and, like with the resurrection, perhaps history repeating itself, in a sense, with a potential upcoming eclipse?

And another interesting line: "The sky opened its maw and spat from its black jaws a tiny star."

It's not exactly black, but I know some people say the ridges here look like teeth...

Also, even though Sol is referring to his blindness, these lines about the Sun "never [rising] again" and an "eternal night" fit into similar themes to the eclipse and the Ripples short.

Also, just going back to the abandonment theme of the eclipse really quick--

The Midnight Star poem also talks about the stars abandoning humanity. "Elarion, unworthy whelp, / Wept as the stars turned black the sky, / They donned their masks / They turned their backs / And left Elarion to die."

(I have more to break down about that entire stanza in another post; I just want to point out the bolded parts for now.)

Now, most of these are references to the past... so what about now?

If I were to guess on how the same themes I compared to the Ripples story might apply to "current" series events...

Abandonment - Claudia feeling abandoned by Aaravos (as mentioned in the Lost Child short)? Or, alternately, Aaravos feeling abandoned (by either Claudia, after she had to flee from the battle, and/or Viren, after his rejection)?

Crisis/existential threat - IMO the biggest threat is Karim potentially joining up with Sol Regem right now. Though some would say Aaravos being close to being freed could be the threat/crisis here. But I'm an Aaravos apologist, so I am not part of that group LOL

Eclipse as an act of creation - Claudia regenerates her missing leg, perhaps?

The Sun and Moon coupling and creating more stars - Viren Star arcanum?

Mischievous acts - Aaravos again.

All of this to say-- I don't think the eclipse is just for show/because it looks cool, but if we consider the mythological beliefs surrounding eclipses, it ties in significantly to the story.

Also I leave you with a few last bits from the article that just remind me of TDP things:

"In many cultures, the darkening of the sun meant the gods were very, very angry with humanity, and about to inflict some punishment. Often, that meant that in order to appease them, you had to kill someone."

That reminds me of the stars seeming to punish humanity for daring to use magic... which is also when Aaravos gets cast down?

"The Greeks thought an eclipse meant that the gods were about to rain punishment down on a king, so in the days before an eclipse, they would choose prisoners or peasants to stand in as the king in the hopes that they’d get the eclipse punishment and the real king would be saved. Once the eclipse was over, the substitute king was executed."

This is so far off, but it reminds me of Harrow anyway? Mostly with the soulfang serpent idea of switching Harrow with someone else. Interesting.

"For the Inuits, the sun and moon weren’t a married couple but brother and sister. At the beginning of the world they quarreled, and the sun goddess Malina walked away from her brother, the moon god Anningan. Anningan continued to chase after her, and whenever he caught up to her, there was an eclipse."

Which reminds me of the line in Strangers, the short from Soren's perspective, where "Claudia had appeared and he’d done it again, a little boy chasing after his sister..."

A lot of it is probably coincidence, but it's still really interesting!

#tdp #the dragon prince #speculation #meta #aaravos #claudia #tdp claudia #viren #sol regem #I guess #you can tell which characters I pay attention to the most in the series #I'm a proud villain stan u-u #I haven't looked deeply into any of the specific mythological beliefs #but I want to see where this goes!! #my posts #I had to edit to add a few more things woops #I love when there's a random thing in TDP I decide I want to know more about #and then it brings up like a million things that remind me of TDP story or plot elements #like one little detail can hold so much!! #mythology

[xadian-daydreams]

Aaravos' (possible) escape plan;

I think Aaravos has already set up everything he needs to escape in S6.

We know that portals work to remove things from the prison, as that's how Lil Bug Pal got out. Aaravos just needs to be able to create a bigger portal. He already has a portal target in his bloodbond with Viren and/or Sparklepuff.

Aaravos broke the mirror so he could not be spied on, but most likely another reason is he's prepping his exit point. Due to its need to connect to the sister mirror, this mirror is the weakest point of the imprisonment enchantment. Thus, the best spot to create a portal large enough for himself to fit through.

Claudia not only didn't know the prison wasn't a building/structure, she also had no means prepared of getting Aaravos out of the enchanted pearl. (She probably had a dozen spells prepped to get him out a building, but not the space warping pearl). She wasn't releasing Aaravos that day, regardless of whether the dragang turned up or not. However, Aaravos was already moving on with his plans as soon as Claudia was engaged on her mission - implying that regardless of how this event played out, Aaravos' escape is ensured at this point. This indicated that all Aaravos needed Claudia to do to ensure his escape was act as a plausible threat that others are reacting to, if she claimed the prison, that's a bonus, not a necessity.

The dragang should not have moved the pearl - this has weakened the imprisonment enchantment because, A) The pearl is Ocean based and they're moving it away from its energy source. B) Going off Ripples short story (also that the Startouch statues of Aaravos and the Merciful One were built after the creation of the Sea of the Castout) the center of the Sea of the Castout has significance to Aaravos - it represents one of the lowest points of his life. So, it's not a coincidence that the pearl was place there, and that location is part of the imprisoning enchantment.

Skipping from the dragang and adding the Sunfire plot to the mix. Going by the purple mark where Pharos was bitten by Bug Pal when Aaravos possessed him, Pharos is still subjectable to Aaravos' influence. I'm also willing to bet that Pharos is one of those rare Sunfire elves that possess the healing Light-mode form. (His name is based off the lighthouse of Alexandria and in the artbook it says he has a direct connection to the Sun Primal which helps him channel the incalculable power of the Sunforge). Thus, it would seem sensible for fire mage Karim to have light healer Pharos perform the healing of Sol Regem, where Aaravos has a chance to subtly apply his influence.

We know from Tales of Xadia: Corrupted Core, that magical fire has a purification/repulsion effect on the Sun Orb's corruption - with Sun dragon flame being a good counter. (I wonder if Orta will be mentioned in the show). Therefore, Karim begging a healed Sol Regem to try and purify the Sun Orb using the most powerful dragon flame in Xadia seems likely.

Only, due to Aaravos' influence, this purification won't exactly go to plan - at the least, a massive burst of dark magic will happen (similar to what you're trying to stop in the Corrupted Core campaign, but not so apocalyptic). This burst of dark magic will give Aaravos all the external power he requires to create a portal powerful and large enough to escape.

The dragang won't even realise Aaravos is out. This gives him time to make moves before his escape is discovered.

(While I like the idea of Rayla's dilemma over possessed Callum, and there's enough hints that it's bound to happen, I think it will happen later in season 6 over something other than Aaravos' escape).

#tdp #tdp speculation #aaravos #tdp spoilers #tdp season 6 #tales of xadia spoilers #sol regem #sunfire plotline

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

I find it really weird that The Dragon Prince tries really hard to convince you that knowing an Arcanum inherently makes someone less likely to abuse it's power.

Meanwhile I'm like: Bitch where!?

The Moonshadow elves are famous for being assassins. Which, popular franchise notwithstanding, are a way foreign powers force their will on sovereign nations.

The Sunfire Queen is explicitly a fantasy racist that treated the king of another country the way she would a criminal. (The fact that Viren is not the legitimate ruler is irrelevant because Queen Khessa didn't know that.) Not to mention the fact that they habitually torture prisoners of war with blinding light.

The first Skywing elf we meet is a habitual opportunist that kidnaps a baby for her own self interest.

The main villain is the only Startouch elf we've seen so far.

To say nothing about the dragons.

The unnamed Sunfire dragon did attack a town full of innocent people. Which was not only unnecessary but incredibly stupid. As the only threat to it was the guard tower.

Sol Regem would have destroyed an entire city full of hundreds of thousands of people because one man told him no.

Thunder acted as Xadia's boarder patrol for hundreds of years. Essentially acting as the judge, jury and executioner of countless illegal immigrants for the crime of wanting to return to their ancestral homelands. Or people who were already leaving like the three Queens.

This idea that Arcanum knowledge is somehow magically more enlightened, pardon the pun, goes hand in hand with the idea that humans are inherently less moral than magical beings.

When that's just not true.

#the dragon prince #tdp #sol regem #avizandum #moonshadow elves #sunfire elves #tdp critical