#dragalia

What way?

Mana.

I feel like a decent portion of the fandom could tell you about Nedrick's mana-draining self. How he, if he's lacking in Human Resources like food and water, tends to start absorbing mana like a vacuum around him to compensate.

After all, they even made a comic revolving about it:, no.442:

But what if I told you that Beren was also seemingly mana-hungry, dependent on draining things around him for a little bit? Yup.

Oh, but don't worry, they fixed that in ch.14 for him.

...And they just kinda left it at that. I don't even recall them establishing that Beren was also dependent on external mana. So, let's get this straight:

-They introduce a problem Beren apparently had at the exact time it is solved for him

-Never bring it up before or after

-And introduce another royal family member with black hair who also has that same problem the very next chapter

I'll be honest, I've never really liked Gala Chelle's design.

The plum-like purple is aleady not a very favored shade of my favorite color, and the scarlet red does not mesh well with it my opinion. The partial curls are also kinda off about it. The outfit is also shockingly revealing - she has literally no back on the 'dress' and still has perhaps the most egregious sideboobs in Dragalia. Then we have the half leggings and all that, which really just feels like the designers were more just designing her for sex appeal over anything else.

In fact, it's almost like having an apron on and almost nothing else-

NO LEONIDAS, GET OUT OF HERE-

Ahem.

So when I see that instead of that, we could have had this A design to the left:

It's almost maddening how much better it fits.

Chelle's whole 'argument' regarding why she's wearing these clothes is this:

She argues that this is purely 'function' and style, while her actual dress isn't functional at all, much less for travel. Even her disguise as a rich merchant is at odds with its design. I wonder if they were wanting to use her massive skirt as like the means by which she smuggles her gun, because that would at least be something functional about it... but even that doesn't seem to be the case.

She was keeping it in a bag.

Really, its only function is enraging Leif, which, to be fair, is a Chelle thing to do, but I imagine there are other ways to do this and in better style.

This is where the A design checks all boxes. That is 'rich merchant' look, classy and more fit for travel as she (pretends to) carries on the business of the family. It's easy to add additional layers to help herself against upcoming frigid climate, and is warmer to start with. The color scheme is a coherent purple-white.

Also the hat is cute.

Some dragons consider humans as a viable food source in Dragalia!

There are at least two dragons playable in the roster that hold this opinion, one that we outright see attempt to eat a human!

And no, I'm not talking Nyarlathothep and Hastur since their 'sacrifices' aren't necessarily food instead of just ritual sacrifice to the Ancient One and all that. Though it's entirely possible it does, too. Nyarla does ultimately intend for the sacrifices to be 'sustenance' on the Ancient One's 'dining table', so it's not like he's adverse to Serving Man.

No, I'm talking the explicit food drive, no ifs ands or buts. Like these:

Who are these dragons?

Juggernaut and Nimis.

Yup, Mister Pancakes here is not adverse to eating humans. By the animation, he seemed to pick up Euden and was wanting to drop him straight down the hatch. No hesitation or regret whatsoever on that big guy's face. Juggernaut at least has the decency to try to suppress his natural urge since he's grown to like Euden, but it still is eminently obvious that there are dragons that casually consider humans as food. Not even as a special treat or something. Just another possible food.

In fact, it seems like it might be a broader cultural understanding, since we have several incidents of sacrifice popping up in a likely food context. Some, like we see in Tobias' story, are an unknown whether the dragon was actually demanding human food, -but even if they were lying, the fact that the Church felt comfortable in demanding humans as sacrifices for an unknown purpose to appease it indicates it might not be too far out of the question in regards to dragons...

We also see someone leave a literal newborn by Agni's door in a likely sacrificial snack.

At least, that's what I'm interpreting for why a person would leave a newborn at a dragon's doorstep who is noted to have a voracious appetite for rare flavors instead of literally anywhere else.

Garuda provides another point on the chart, even if she was just being coy about wanting to keep Lowen as a friend forever by demanding him as a sacrifice. Her best thought for how to obtain a human was to demand the village use him as a sacrifice, which, again, kinda reaffirms that this isn't so far out of the cultural norm for either human or dragon.

So... yeah. There is a decent chance that no, humans are not being paranoid in Dragalia when they fear and worship dragons so, as they just might happen to live in an area with a dragon that can and will hunt and consume them!

A last little bonus round for actual fun: Giovanni doesn't seem to want to eat Euden but nevertheless is willing to have him inside his gullet: