In Game of Thrones, the size of the dragon matters. The biggest threat in House of the Dragon is Vhagar, a dragon feared not only for its size, but also for its uncharacteristic stealth. Somehow, no one sees ol’ Vhagar coming. But in another universe written by George R. R. Martin, the dragon’s size can be a disadvantage. The largest dragons in Old Ring are dead after all.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Recently, dragon size has escalated to an absurd degree. A new, unnamed (and dead) dragon found west of the DLC’s Finger Ruins of Rhia region is now the largest dragon to appear in a FromSoftware game, according to a new video from YouTube creator Zullie the WitchThis nameless dragon is so large that he is part of the landscape; his corpse is drawn on Shadow of the Erdtreemap of.
The previous record holder for dragon size was the great old dragon Gransax, whose body rests in Leyndell, Royal Capital and which players must climb on at one point. Gransax is 328 metres long from head to tail, according to Zullie’s calculations, almost twice as big as Demon Souls‘huge Dragon God. But the faceless dragon that rests at the foot of Old RingJagged Peak is a whopping 392 meters long – more than 2.5 times the size of Vhagar, which is 150 meters long. Over 300 meters is clearly an unsustainable size; there simply isn’t enough turtle neck meat in the Shadowrealm to sustain a dragon of that mass.
Is Shadow of the Erdtree‘s record-breaking dead drake “peak dragon?” For now at least, and possibly forever. “Where FromSoftware is now, in terms of scale, I’d say Old Ring is really the limit,” game director Hidetaka Miyazaki recently said The guard“We’ve tapped into all the resources and talents at our disposal… if we were to make it any bigger, I would have concerns.”
Sure, he’s talking about the overall size of the game, but the size of the dragons in Old Ring is closely tied to its vast world and FromSoft’s ambition. Either way, Vhagar must be careful.