The reason for this was likely to ensure a path from the Forbidden Land to the City for Stealth via Stonewin and Rokwin (the two villages near the volcano), as the Ghost Panther's attack on the City was the key to Malvel's strategy to take power, and the Flame Bird could jeopardise the Ghost Beast's attempt to make it to the capital. Blaze was tasked with securing Stonewin volcano and binding Epos inside with his ice. Whether Malvel controlled the Beast or simply used it as a front-line war room is unclear. Either voluntarily or forcefully, Blaze surrendered his body for Malvel to occupy, which the wizard saw as necessary to ensure the plan's viability now the attacking forces were significantly reduced. While he had only offered the first four Beasts mild support (such as creating unnatural wind to make reaching the spot Equinus hid his piece of the amulet more difficult), he now chose to take matters into his own hands and ordered the remaining Beasts to begin their attacks on Avantia. Malvel was content to sit back and allow the Ghost Beasts fight the Avantians within their own domain, however after the first four Beasts were vanquished, the wizard changed strategy, seeming to fear Blaze and Stealth may also be defeated before the attack began. The Ice Dragon would return after the Master of the Beasts' defeat, however he and his allies would not attempt the attack on Avantia after seeing how a single Avantian warrior could defeat five of them in fair combat.Ī decade later, Malvel would convince them to make a second attack on Avantia, entrusting a piece of the Amulet of Avantia to each of them in an attempt to ensure Taladon would not be brought back to a physical, living state. The Ice Dragon was the fifth Beast he fought in the Forbidden Land, with Blaze being defeated in battle. Taladon was dispatched to deal with the Beasts. While the land was carved up into the domains of different Beasts, whether Blaze's efforts were rewarded with territory or not is unclear, but the Beast would remain in the Forbidden Land.īlaze and the other Ghost Beasts joined forces with Malvel to attempt to annex the rest of Avantia and decay it to match the Forbidden Land, with Malvel instated as king of the wasteland. The coalition successfully drove out or killed the inhabitants and claimed the land as their own, with Avantia abandoning it to them. The Beast's ice breath is incredibly strong, able to completely freeze Stonewin Volcano and Epos.īlaze was one of the six Beasts who attacked eastern Avantia, seeking to capture territory from the kingdom. It is suggested that the Ice Dragon has an obsession with freezing the land, potentially due to an idolised view of the Great Ice Age that covered Avantia centuries before.
Alternatively, he may have been promised a large swathe of territory in the invasion of the rest of Avantia. Whether he actually controlled a territory is unknown, and he may be nomadic in nature. Notably, the territory Blaze controlled in the Forbidden Land is unknown as he was not fought within his own domain and it is not shown on the map. Unlike the other Ghost Beasts, Blaze has a restriction on his ghost form: he can only transform into a ghost in low temperatures, and high temperatures force him to turn back into physical form. In spectral form, Blaze can be harmed by shadows. As with the other Ghost Beasts, Blaze can switch between a corporeal form and a spectral one. While in his first battle with Taladon the Swift he had complete control of his own form, in his attack on Avantia Blaze's body was possessed and controlled by Malvel. The fact Blaze seems to be the non-imperial type of Chinese Dragon may reflect how in his attack on Avantia, he is completely subservient to Malvel. The number of toes on each limb suggests he is based more on the Chinese Dragon than the Japanese Dragon, with four toes suggesting inspiration from typical non-imperial Chinese art. He is a dragon Evil Beast (the first dragon to be evil in the series) based on the Asian Dragon.
Blaze is one of the Ghost Beasts of the Forbidden Land and alongside Stealth, one of the two who attack Avantia.
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