Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

Made with the support of:

Andrea Di Biagio, Andrey Chursin, Ben Schwab, Bob Kunz, Cas Eliëns, Christopher Anthony, David F Watson, Donal Botkin, Edison Franklin, Friedrich Gies, GameGo, James Bissonette, Jeremy Banks, John Buchan, JoJo Chehebar, Mark Govea, Michael Cao, Nevin Spoljaric, Oliver Steele, Richard Comish, Roman Pinchuk, Stephen W. Carson, Tianyu Ge, Tien Long, and James Gill.

[grfrjiglstan]

"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second-best time is now."

-An old Chinese proverb

[Mhochul]

"Many jobs would be lost if the dragon were slaughtered"
Hits a little too close to reality

[kajmaj]

Slaying a dragon in fantasy: swords and arrows.
Slaying a dragon in reality: intercontinental ballistic missile.

[Smiguli]

Now imagine if the dragon got back up in the end and was actually a two phase boss fight.

[ravenxd]

CGP Grey: Everything can be solved with missiles.

Americans: *I fucking knew it*

[jeremykiahsobyk]

The dragon wondered for a moment why the bright light in the sky was getting bigger and brighter. Then it hit him.

[_fire_fox_]

From the projects beginning to its completion, 43, 830, 000 souls were consumed by the dragon.

[sharpfang]

In reality, the megacorporation responsible for feeding the dragon would sabotage the project.

[lifeisboss]

The least accurate thing about this fable is that a scientist predicted how long their project would take

[ShyBug]

If this were real we all know there would be a group of people who would just go to the dragon and snitch

[Botpointo]

I love how the king aged a whole generation in 12 years.

[aguy]

1:11 I didn't notice before, but the little boy to the far left, arms folded, not having any of what the teacher says, is actually the same boy who yelled out about his "Granny" being eaten and how the dragon really is bad, at the big meeting. Nice detail. He had the right idea from the start, and the *adults* were the ones who needed convincing.

[iainballas]

The only thing that I'm miffed you left out of this story, likely for brevity, was this:
"Sometimes the dragon would devour these unfortunate souls upon arrival; sometimes again it would lock them up in the mountain where they would wither away for months or years before eventually being consumed."
The dragon doesn't just kill us. It tortures us.

[ProbablyBarney]

the people had slain the dragon, and then they could finally make a dope ass enderman farm

[sannyassi]

A part of the story that you don't hear about- the people who spoke out against the Dragon and argued that it was evil were persecuted and most of the time they were the ones chosen to be fed to the Dragon.

[evrint]

"Eat the dragon! Eat the dragon!" Chanted the crowds, pouncing on the corpse.

[THExRISER]

10:17 I just realized that not even the queen survived the dragon, this really shows that the king shares his people's pain.

[SQUIRRELSONASTICK]

Now I want a city building game where the objective is to feed an ever growing dragon. Every year it eats a few more people, growing exponentially alongside the size of your city as you unlock new tech.

[accusedtoppat]

Fun fact: In the original fable the guy who begged the king to stop the last train was also the boy who's grandma was killed

[justaguywhodraws]

I like how it’s wings are a foggy thing or just transparent like it’s a part of the dragon’s evil and it’s literally spewing out of its sides