Talk:Gaping Dragon/@comment-76.17.157.108-20140303163712

LORE SPECULATION:

The Gaping Dragon has something to do with Seath the Scaleless, perhaps he was even another failed "test" subject. It would make sense that Seath would take interest in one of the last of his kind and maybe his experiments turned it into this abomination. If you compare the Gaping Dragon's wings to those of the Moonlight Butterfly (another of Seath's creations) they are very similar. Also a Channeler overlooks and assists in the battle proving that Seath has forces in the area directly related to the Gaping Dragon.

While the Butchers were confirmed to be female by the developers I actually believe that when Laurentius says they were going to feed him alive to "her" that he means the Gaping Dragon, or the giant rat down the chute. It seems that the Depths had a sort of ordered food chain.

Humans would be butchered and fed to the rats. (Evidenced by the rats dropping humanity)

The Rats would mature and then be used as guardians, but also as more suitable food for the Gaping Dragon. (Evidenced by them being packaged in boxes within the depths and pacified by Channelers)

It is also interesting to wonder how the Gaping Dragon obtained the blighttown key...perhaps he ate the one that carried it? The gate leading towards the entrance to blighttown from the Depths is broken (outwards) so perhaps the Gaping Dragon actually fled out of Blighttown...another potential reason for its mutation?

This is one of the most interesting bosses that I think has the least bit of attention to lore given to him. I really hope some of these ideas may contribute to fixing that!