Unfortunately, no… I’ve got the other two unofficial guidebooks, but I haven’t seen that one floating around eBay yet (although I don’t check eBay all that often).
Slightly off topic, but that reminds me, I’ve still got to scan those other mini maps for you Lance.
Anyway, concerning the topic, I still remain convinced that Lagi was one and the same physical dragon in each of the four Panzer Dragoon games. Interview information aside, there are some loose ends that don’t quite make sense if they were different dragons in each game.
For example, Panzer Dragoon Zwei was a prequel to the original game, but why would Team Andromeda have made it a prequel if it hadn’t been made to tie up some of the loose ends in the original game. There could be several reasons for Zwei’s story being told, but the main two possibilities would be to (a) tell the story of how the mysterious Sky Rider from PD1 met his dragon or (b) to tell the story of how the dragon grew up. Panzer Dragoon Zwei is a story that shows us how the dragon started off as a little pup and grew into the majestic Blue Dragon. We know that Lundi is not the same person as the Sky Rider, so that rules that option out. Notice that in none of the other games we see the dragon being ‘born’, however in Zwei it is a major part of the storyline. I would have thought that Sestren’s memory orbs would have recorded much significant events if they had happened to the dragons in PD1 and Saga.
The Blue Dragon in PD1 is the same dragon form as at the end of Panzer Dragoon Zwei. I wonder why that would be? The main question I’m posing here is when would the Sky Rider have raised the dragon from a pup and grown it all the way into the Blue Dragon? In Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Lagi mainly grew into superior forms after he had defeated a lot of enemies… same with in Saga. Lagi grew relatively slowly before him and Lundi set off on their quest, but once the pursuit of Shelcoof had begun he grew into the Blue Dragon in under two months. So it seems to me that destroying enemies helped Lagi to grow somehow. The question is, when would the Sky Rider have had to opportunity to do that? If he had defeated hordes of Sestren?s monsters to ?level up? his dragon, surely Sestren would have recorded these events and shown them when in the memory orbs at the end of PDS. I realize that Team Andromeda obviously hadn?t already made FMVs for these events however they made additional ones showing how the Heresy program left Sestren in the first place, so I don?t see why they couldn?t have included important details like new dragons being born as well.
The dragon pup in Shelcoof could well have been Lagi?s son, which would explain how its DNA transformed the Light Wing into the Solo Wing. I know that Lance mentions in his theory that the dragon pup could have been Lagi reborn but if Lagi truly did die at the end of Panzer Dragoon Zwei, then I have to ask, how come the dragon didn?t die at the end of PD1?
Anyway, those are some of the reasons why I think they are they same dragon in each game. I haven?t said anything about Lundi?s journals or Panzer Dragoon Orta, but I?ll give my opinion on those if anyone wants to hear it?
. At the end of Panzer Dragoon Saga, the Heresy Dragon “destroys” Sestren Exsis, and the world become free from the will of the Ancients. I use the word “destroy” loosely, because it’s a little hard to tell what’s dead or not in Sestren, but I believe that Sestren (the being) was disposed of, or at least lost all of it’s power at the end of Panzer Dragoon Saga.
