Dragons are cool!
It’s what makes the Dracthyr interesting - they scratch every itch of the ‘I want to see the world through mortal eyes’ robots in disguise vibe without all the baggage that playing an inherently powerful character like a dragon (or even most drakes) brings.
Okay now we are enemies
A bronze character that’s like the GotG game’s Mantis would work - occasionally confused about exactly which timeline they’re in, without being able to change things.
It has some cool moments.
Fingersnapping Drezen so it never fell to ‘redeem’ Staunton is objectively cool.
But since I don’t recognise monad authority over reality it falls flat a bit to me.
It also has some really dumb moments, like:
Wandering over to Nocticula’s palace and being like, ‘hey can I host an abyssal court day pls?’ The whole thing just felt very arbitrary and lame.
Trickster is the superior neutral mythic path.
That court was objectively hilarious (admittedly a lot of the path falls flat if you’re not all in on the True Aeon train) ):<
The True Aeon path just feels super robotic and I don’t vibe with it
Trickster is very cool, though the lack of a Nurah party member is criminal. It’s also hilariously broken mechanically if you take Pesuasion Trick 3. I did like your little trickster council though, they were way better than the Azata NPCs and at least more interesting than the Angel Sentai Squad (even if the angel squad is also great and why don’t I have a Targona romance??)
I do think bronze dragon is probably the ‘easiest’ dragon character to play for power level concerns, since “nah timeline said it has to work this way” is a perfect get-out excuse for not over-contributing.
The Official Mythic Path Rankings:
Others not included because I haven’t done them yet. Also could be subject to change since some of them vary based on the calls you make.
Most of the mythic paths are a story about your character and how they react to this world. True Aeon is like a story is happening around your character while they desperately try to edit because what are all these demons doing here no it’s really silly for that to happen no you shouldn’t be here
This is why the ending, where you fix the story and edit yourself out, is very thematic, if a little disappointing in some respects because of several characters getting bad outcomes.
I can understand why it’s not a universal appeal but I really enjoyed watching people react to you and there’s inherent comedy in a lot of the pronouncements!
Sorry but all I’m hearing is confirmation that Aeon is indeed the Big Lame
Also you absolutely shred bosses by instantly dispelling all their buffs and mythic powers and that’s always a good time
Aeons: NOOOOO CELESTIALS AND FIENDS CAN’T COME TO THE MORTAL PLANE, STOP IT NOOOO
Me: Cry about it I guess.
the time travel parts alone are worth the price of admission, as are the times where otherwise unsolvable parts of the plot for other paths are fixed by you as an aeon looking at it and going ‘I think not’ and snapping your fingers and instantly fixing it
This has had some stuff in the EE apparently though I’ve not been able to reach it because a bug has stopped me progressing through the midnight isles and I’m still waiting for them to fix it.
Also I think you’re rating azata way too highly. It had like one cool moment to me (the slave markets) and the rest was real 
Aivu is Nenio. They have one joke, and you either really like the joke and it’s great or it wears on you and gets tiresome.
It wore on me.
Nenio is my Friend don’t make me throw hands with you too
There were some people speaking about it. It wasn’t a single meme, come on, it was the usual suspects having their daily complaints about politics.
It was a “you” directed at the usual suspects who think this videogame forums is meant to be a political platform to voice their opinions atleast once a week. Which isn’t something you refrain from, either.
Because that’s a typical strategy from you and others who lurk within these forums: if you are not with me, you’re against me. “And if you feel attacked while I am being passive-aggressive, then you’re part of the problem.”
Also because I was not-so openly accused of being an extremist right here:
Yeah, correct me if I’m wrong but you liked it too? Very weird that now you’re seemingly unaware, huh.
Especially considering what you’re doing here, hmm: you ask me to give me an example while simultaneously confessing your prejudice against 99% of examples, just so that you can project your political insecurities? A bit of a weird flex, at least you should have waited the next post!
For example. I’m against most forms of equality of outcome on the job (ie. thinking we should aim at a 50% male/50% women employed in STEM fields).
99% of the times? Whoa that’s surely not a bloated statistic huh!
I’d say both parties are good at playing the victim cards and be obnoxious.
“You don’t understand how deep and important this part is, that’s why we are in disagreement on its shared value!”
Every single one of her interactions with NPCs can be summed up as:
[Nenio says something inappropriate to the conversation]
[NPC ignores or glares at them]
[Conversation continues as if nothing changed]
She has a few pretty good moments - the first meeting with Hal (assuming Daeran is there) and talking with Baphomet are pretty wonderufl, but most of the time it’s as if you’re playing with a chaotic-neutral-so-random-gamer while the DM and other players are desperately trying to tell a sincere story.
If she had more interactions inside the Enigma it might help, but even her personal quest has very little except at the very very end.
In short snippets she’s fine, but if you bring her everywhere (or have the toybox option for distant companion dialogue) her samey-ness really kills it for me.
Azata has a lot of high moments, but it does have a very anti climactic ending to its path story. I still rate it, though.
On dragon RP I saw that worked:
Bronze dragon who hid as a storyteller/history teacher. With monthly and seasonal storytelling events. Players knew the char was a dragon, the characters didn’t.
Also hung out around important events as a neutral party only there to record things. People actually were nice enough not to go “rreee” mode at someone who doesn’t join the fight… usually.
And the few that just couldn’t contain themselves had the rare honour of dragon in their face once no one else was looking.
On Nenio: I enjoy her in small doses. Probably 1/4 of the playthroughs I do, I bring her with me. Too much of her dilutes the entertainment value she does bring. Similarly, Aivu is fine because she’s only there if you play Azata.
I’ve RPd a dragon.
I will RP a dragon.
Just because other people have done something horrendously, doesn’t mean everyone does.
A lot of people from various character backgrounds are piss poor, doesn’t mean I will immediately ignore each and every one of a similar type.
I tend to take a more side line role with it mind you, giving advice, explaining how something may work. I’m hoping to be a bit of a world perspectives giver for the awakening dracthyr.