To be clear Lance the only reason Iāve been talking about it in these terms is because itās ultimately my take on the Solo Wing that holds me away from the whole separate soul issue, since itās only brought into question because of the baby-dragon-crest depiction. In other words I find I canāt subscribe to the idea itself if only by default, as itās essentially justified by that scenario. In and of itself the idea is intriguing enough.
Iāll throw out one other caveat in respect to Lundiās apparent attitude that the dragon has a soul, and at the point in the story we are given the diary it wouldnāt yet have āLagiāsā soul so what heās telling us would effectively be wrong. Thatās nitpicking but itās relevant in respect to other assumptions that Lundiās statements can be taken at face value.
On the subject of Lundiās statements, many implications given by the game translation of the Old Diary are not at all evident in Kimimiās text:
Birth of the Dragon
This world has been molded into
its current shape by the powers
of a series of ruins we call
Towers. The Towers control the
environment, breed monsters,
and control human populations.
1/3
Before the worlds current form had been established, there were groups of ruins called [Towers]. The aim of these constructions was to manage various areas of the ancient world, ?Living Weapons? selflessly2* governing death.*
I will note that the ābreedingā description apparently has no basis in the Japanese script, or for that matter any reference to controlling the human population as such. Iām very curious if the principle is made clear in other texts. But a key difference here is the clearer implication that the Towers were indeed a force during the ancient age, as further suggested by the next partā¦
Even in the Ancient Age, there
were people against the presence
of the Towers. The Towersā
creators feared these rebels would
rise to destroy the Towers, so
they created monsters to guard
their creations. And the dragons.
*2/3
However, even in the Ancient Age, there were those who were against the Towers.
Towers were the Lords of Creation, the fear of destruction from the Tower depending on him3, from inside the womb of [Uru] the fountain of the world, the Tower had the strongest of all the ?Living Weapons? under* its protection4.
That was, the Dragons.
That ācreated monsters to guard their creationsā part and any subsequent mention of ārebelsā is not even hinted at. I do have a question here Kimimi, the next part mentions the dragons seemingly cast as the protectors, rather than the protected, is there any way the above could alternatively read something like āā¦strongest of all the ?Living Weapons? for/as its protection.ā ?
One dragon is posted at each
Tower. They perform their duty to
this day, as they have for over a
millenium. Not even the Empire can
stand before them. The only force
that can counter the dragonās
power are the dragons themselves.
3/3
Respectively Tower 1 is given over to the head Dragon, the mission given to them is still continued now as expected of them.
Even the Imperial troops that handle Ancient Age weapons are torn apart by the protection.
To be able to oppose the strength of that Dragon, a similar Dragon is needed
This part doesnāt directly suggest that every tower would have a guardian dragon as the original translation does. There is however still a specific reinforcement that the Towers and/or Dragons are indeed still carrying out their task. It also leads to an elaboration on the Sestren question I already askedā¦
Between the Blue Dragon manifestation Sestren takes, and the image of the pure/impure ādragon soulsā I have always had the image of Sestren as being a dragon itself. That seems to me the most obvious interpretation of this translation as well, which is why I brought up those ideas in this topic. Actually the āSestren as infiltratorā notion was directly inspired by this topic a couple days ago and itās not something I have any convictions about, stillā¦ itās kinda growing on me the more I consider.
For myself I am quite convinced that thereās a reason the Heresy Program ācreatesā a dragon and that Sestren āmanifestsā as a dragon. Thatās what both of them are, ādragon soulsā.
*The Heresy Dragon
1/4
Now that you are the dragon rider, our friends soul now lies with you.
Simply, he is the [Destroyer of Towers] dragon soul.
Within reason, all other dragons are your enemy.*
That part is exciting to me, itās perfectly in line with the direction I found myself heading with some theorising I started right after I joined the forum. Taken as a whole there does seem to be a more mystical element to the ātechnologyā of the ancients implied in the Japanese script. And already the biblical reference to dragons being the other creation of the gods is a reinforcement I take for the idea of dragons being something just a little outside even The Ancientsā full control or understanding.
Perhaps Iāve only got the idea as a carryover from Anne McCaffreyās influence, but as such thereās many other similarities to be foundā¦
AMENDMENT: Another detail that briefly slipped my mind, perhaps because itās not exactly conducive to my current musing on Sestren as ancient infiltrator;
In the context of āSestrenā being literally a Dragon, the very dragon form we meet, the significance of the form on every Dragon Crest would seem obvious. They are a symbol of āThe Dragonā yes, more specifically they are a symbol of Sestren, as in THE Dragon, the āhead dragonā.
And, just perhaps, even a symbol of the āHand of guidance, eyes of the Judgeā? Again, was it possibly always the āchildā of Sestren the human āflocksā were set to expect as their savior? 
*Our friend, who is the Heretic child of the dragon, was the birth and the heresy. *
Some interesting discussion in this thread too, so hereās my current angle on this issue of the dragon ācasting away its fleshā:
