One of the great parts of dragonfable's writing is how it describes the chains and cycles of violence through time.
Tanislav sacrificed his wife to save his son Roirr, who grew up obsessed with immortality, ignoring his children. His daughter Pandora lashes out at everyone, and in turn her son Aspar froms the Corrupted Seven, which proceed to torment the world. His other daughter Oyva isolates herself from everyone else, and eventually her descendant Vaal becomes a megalomaniac, who comes to support Roirr's bloody path, eventually culminating in the two of them getting sent back in time to give Tanislav the ritual to save his son in the first place.
Wargoth enslaved the Atealans, and when his son tried to overthrow him he was banished and reincarnated as a human. Falling back on what he had learned from his father, Warlic comes to set his rival Alexander on fire and sealing their mutual friend Jaania into an ice crystal. When Jaania is freed, she decides that magic is too dangerous and has caused too much pain, proceeding to seal Warlic, Xan and the Hero in a crystal, inflicting that very same pain on other people.
The dragon Akriloth burned down Konnan's hometown, and blaming the Hero, Konnan pursued fire magic to exact revenge, becoming Drakonnan and eventually being considered a dragon in mindset.
When King Slugwrath was overthrown, his son Drakath began searching for a way to reclaim his birthright, eventually becoming a dragon. Even after death, his corpse was used to consume the Sun and plunge Lore into Darkness.
And then upstream of basically everything else, you have the Exaltia turning on their creators the Aequilibria. Magic, Lore, the Wastes and Elemental Plains are the aftermath of a gun designed to kill God that uses cities as ammunition.
Dragonfable is about cycles. The balance of lore is such that there will always be saviors to face its destroyers, and destroyers to face its saviors, in perpetuity.
Which makes Magus Neron all the more fascinating. When he lost his family, community and half his face to Akriloth, he continued to be a doctor. He became the benevolent exception to the pain the Rose caused, and performed groundbreaking research on Lycanthropy. Magus Neron is one of the only people who have succeeded in going "this ends here" to the pain and suffering.
