Match Ideas: Grigori

("You would face me, then? Tis a fool's choice, Arisen. But better fool than craven. I knew your mind ere you came... Still, I ask this final time. Arisen, will you stand and fight?")

It was really hard to pick a single quote for this guy since everything he says is gold. Check his page on the Dragon's Dogma wiki dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Gr… for his Tolkien worthy dialogue.

So Dragon's Dogma's plot can be a little slow at times, but it's always good whenever the dragon you're trying to kill shows up. Despite a giant monster bent on causing destruction, he's extremely polite and well-spoken. He did take the Arisen's heart setting the game in motion, but when confronted at the end of the main game he offers the chance of leaving, at the cost of killing the love interest, and letting the Arisen lie and say he/she killed him and take the glory like he did so in the past with another Arisen. Regardless of choice he supports it, but judging by the dialogue in the fight he actually wants to die.

Not much else is known about him from the lore in the initial game, he never actually gives out his name. It was speculated by a lot of fans that he used to be an Arisen himself, which later lore reveals to be true. He was Arisen who tried to kill the god-like Seneschal, in a cycle where an Arisen kills the Seneschal and takes their place. Those who fail get turned into dragons who ravage the world until a new Arisen can kill them. The cycle requires the strongest to be the Seneschal to maintain, and it requires many sacrifirces.

Grigori isn't a hugely active villain since he's probably waiting for the Arisen get strong enough to fight him. Dragon's Dogma is world full of huge and dangerous monsters but dragons are the worst. Their appearance brings disaster and if they chose to, or were allowed, could likely wipe humanity from the face of the planet, Grigori is said to have destroyed whole countires in seconds. In game there's even a doomsday cult that popped led by an asshole called the Elysion who is trying to get Grigori's attention, and does, with Grigori killing the bastard and commenting how annoying his rants were.

As a boss does the predictable dragon things, flies, breaths fire, his sheer size size means he can claw, stomp, and swat with his tail. But he also has a number of magic attacks (fire breath aside, which also considered magic). He can take control of an Arisen's pawn and use all the highest level magic in the game. And he continues all his amazing dialogue the made him such a memorable character.


Smaug (The Hobbit): Most obvious idea. They both steal every scene they appear in with their stellar dialogue, and everybody is scarred to death of them, with good reason even Grigori in a lot of ways is the opposite of Smaug.


Chosen Undead (Dark Souls): Dark Souls and Dragon's Dogma have a similar dark fantasy setup with a brutal cycle. Grigori even was Dragon's Dogma' counterpart to one of the undead before he was a dragon.


Kalameet (""): I figure with all the dragon bosses in Dark Souls I should at least bring up one.


Ancient Dragon (Dark Souls 2): I don't want to flood this with Dark Souls bosses so I'll end it with this dragon who is a powerful optional boss and the largest boss in a game full of huge bosses. Also this dragon like Grigori isn't malicious, fighting it is optional since it only attacks the player when provoked, by the player attacking it. You monster. Also the locals around it worship it like a god.


Dragon God (Demon's Souls): No reason to leave Demon's Souls out. This boss fight isn't as epic as he should be despite getting shown off in the intro and killing the player if they survive the fight they're supposed to lose, but that's no it's fault, it's stuck in an arena it can't freely move around in and even then if it spots the player they are dead.


Guts (Berserk): We knew this guy would be here with Beserk being on the quint essential dark fantasy settings. Plus Dragon's Dogma does a few homages to it. Lets see if the Dragon Slayer can live up to its name.


Predaking (Transformers Prime): Moving away from fantasy and into science fiction, with fantasy elements, we have a mechanical space dragon.


Berserker Lancelot (Fate Zero): Knight, dragon, they both are hoping for a good death.


Acnolgia (Fairy Tail): This monster has a similar backstory to Grigori having once been a human, but personality wise he's the exact opposite. Acnolgia hates humans to the point where he won't even speak with him, because he's a jerk, and was a violent murderer as a human and as dragon he's even worse.


Alduin (Elder Scrolls): Dragon shows up at the start of the game and the goal of the hero is to kill him. Sounds like Dragon's Dogma might have taken a bit of a que from Skyrim, and actually did a much better job with its villain since Alduin barely has any relevance to the lore in Skyrim outside of the main quest, and his supposed motivations contradict his dialogue.


Deathwing (Warcaft): This dragon is a straight up villain. While Grigori is used as part of vicious cycle, Deathwing was picked by an evil god named N'Zoth to destroy the world, and he's embraced it with all the evil and hamminess one would expect.


Maleficent (Disney): Probably the most well known western animated dragon, even if she's actually a fairy.


Red Death (How to Train Your Dragon): Design wise the Red Death wouldn't be too out of place in dark fantasy setting. And even if it sits around most of the movie it still bring disaster to all around it.


Any takers?