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it s funny it does say that in the beginning and then Jared goes on to state things DE FACTO such as designs which are canon and not unused to go figure probably the intervviewer who threw that line in opposed to him if Jared and Bruno aren t canon idk what is man

second line Seal is entirely speculation and i wouldn t call deviantart "journalism" and uh.................... yeah interviewers kind of do especially when they're just random people on the internet lol but playing by that then how about this the cynder part was the 10 percent canon part BABOOOOOM

^actually thunder i do believe that was the common thought in the way back i dont quite know and i don t quite care i remember having some conversations way back though where the thought was that everything we saw was a result of corruption

Jared Pullen in fact - "(...)I'll sneak you a response a bit later on, but suffice it to say.... Cynder did not start life as a 'Dark/Shadow' elemental dragon ;) (Wink) And her color and subsequent markings are indeed the result of Malefor's corruptive ritual magics."

and in continuation

Jared Pullen - "The Lead Artist on ANB (Bruno Rime) for whom I have a tremendous amount of respect for had one wee condition on TLoS... I could draw everything that was to be, but the 'Anti-Spyro' was to be his baby ;) (Wink) And that is totally fair, as Bruno is one heck of a great guy and Lead. He came back a week later and said 'So, she's going to be a BIG Scary Black Dragon... like the thing out of Sleeping Beauty... only worse!" That was the first time I'd heard mention of the character that was to be Cynder.... Bruno tried a few different variations on a sketch, showed me and we talked on line and angles and the way she was put together overall.... but Cynder was his from the very beginning. I never saw any color variations, but we had a conversation that Cynder was 'the product of her conditioning... and not inherently dark by breed or nature'.... we toyed with the idea that she 'was a flyer' and had connections to the air, to storms and specifically to the Wind ;) (Wink)...
So....

[So she was a wind dragon originally?]

There is that logic yes. While Bruno never said "Cynder is a Wind Dragon" - she was certainly put together as such and the connotations were there
There is ONE way to definitely answer this.. I'm in contact with Bruno and we do talk. He's a good mate of mine and while I believe this was the intention (to make Cynder a Wind Dragon originally) its always best to go to the source."

so she a wind dragon if any at all

i will not REST until the rest of the internet sees that Cynder was originally a fire dragon.

Put #CynderIsAFireDragon in your signatures or guestbook if you believe this as FACT. spread this around the internet people!!! become enlightened!!!!

the corruption gifted her with abilities most uncommon that's the quote and then he lists off elements she didn't previously have. "poison, fear, wind and shadow" notice how wind is there? that's because she didn't have it. because she's a fire dragon. she also is named cynder, a part of fire, came out of lava unharmed and well, again, dotd was made by elb which is a different developer. we can't take them seriously, so she should still be a fire dragon.

i will not REST until the rest of the internet sees that Cynder was originally a fire dragon.

Put #CynderIsAFireDragon in your signatures or guestbook if you believe this as FACT. spread this around the internet people!!! become enlightened!!!!

first off i think you need to calm down? you're being needlessly aggressive.

okay but the people who work on something can have their own headcanons and when interviewed push them on others even if other members of the team say otherwise. who cares what jared says. i sure don't! she's a fire dragon originally, when she first appears she uses fire. that's fact. that's in the games. that's fact.

there's no evidence of her using wind in the first two games it's something they pulled out of their ass last minute for dotd. it was mentioned as an element in ten to exist yes but not as her element. it was mentioned as one of malefor's.

Just to weigh in on this conversation, one small detail, needing supplementary materials and interviews to get the full story on a character or a piece of media is not how most people consume media, and not how media should have to be consumed. Needing to read the novelization on a movie to understand things in a film that people were shown to be absolutely foolish is not how media should be consumed. I shouldn't need to go looking for old interviews to understand the interpretation of a character that some artist has, I should be given all that I need within the game.

You're all wrong, you've been bamboozled.
Cynder is a triangle dragon.