Talk:Age of Dark/@comment-98.166.30.103-20170521011131/@comment-67.11.161.251-20190720185652

It has been shown that humans can become something approaching dragons, and there are numerous lore tidbits about various other creatures who failed to become dragons, such as the drakes and various serpents.

In addition, while this is certainly speculative, there are several enemies throughout the games that have semi-draconic appearances, as though they were a race gradually converging toward dragonhood, but either failed or are not there yet, such as the Ghrus in DS3 who seem to be hybrids of human and demon with additional twisting due to harsh environments and poisons.

Disparity, or in other words a lack of equillibrium, is what causes the ages to change, and with the changing of ages even the everlasting dragons (not mere relatives or degenerate offspring like drakes and serpent men) such as what the Gaping Dragon originally was, would be expected to be reformed from anything and everything. All things in DS are limitlessly plastic with only a restriction of change over time, following where the Souls and greater forces in the universe make them go. If the two pairs of opposing souls (literally aspects of manifest light and dark, life and death) were evetually rejoined, they would cease to exist, and the Grey Age would be expected to gradually resume as if it never ended.