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Dragon Knights are a species from Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai. They are powerful hybrid entity warriors created by the gods. Their purpose is to protect the balance and deliver the divine punishment whoever dares to conquer the world.

Appearances[]

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai[]

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The three Gods decide to create the ultimate being to uphold the balance of the world.

When the dragons, humans and darklings started to live in constant disharmony, the three gods, the God of Humans, the God of Darklings and the God of Dragons, decided that they should create a being that possessed the strength of a dragon, the magical abilities of a darkling, and the heart of a human. That being was the Dragon Knight, who would fight to purge the world of conflicts, and effectively serve as the world's arbiter to maintain the balance and deliver the divine punishment whoever dared to conquer the world.

The dragon knight and the holy mother dragon

The Holy Mother Dragon descent from the heavens to earth to collect the soul of the Dragon Knight.

The Dragon Knight was birthed by a being known as the Holy Mother Dragon, who would then leave the infant Dragon Knight at the care of humans where it will grow as a normal person, as their powers developed for the time when their interference would be needed to maintain the balance in the world. A Dragon Knight's fate is an honorable but rather sad one; as they exist solely to keep the world's balance and peace, they are usually destined to live a life of battle before ultimately succumb to their injuries, at which point the Mother Dragon mourned its offspring, collecting its soul before departing and repeating the cycle anew.

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The dragon crest is a signature trait lineage of the dragon knights, created by the gods.

Originally, only one Dragon Knight can exist at a time due to their immense power, although there are certain exceptions. Dragon Knights can use any spell they want, by having the sky, the sea and the land as their allies and are also masterful warriors, thus granting them frightening power with which they can also destroy the world if they wanted. Dragon Knights are identified by a dragon crest which appears on them typically in their forehead. Dragon Knights are feared and worshipped in the humble kingdom of Teran which has a temple at the bottom of their lake which only allows entry to Dragon Knights. Inside lies a crystalized entity, a guardian that is meant to provide guidance to the Dragon Knights. There are lakes with special properties that can heal Dragon Knights of their wounds.

Baran vs Velther

The Dragon Knight Baran fights Velzar, the King of the Abyss, ruler of the Underworld and the last intelligent dragon in existence.

During the events of the story, several oddities would occur that effectively changed the cycle of Dragon Knights forever. Baran, the Dragon Knight of his era, would come to serve his purpose by fighting Velzar, the King of the Abyss. Being the last intelligent dragon in existence and a ruler of the Underworld, Velzar was considered a far more serious threat than the Dark Lord Hadlar. Following months of grueling battles against Velzar's forces and then the great Dragon himself, Baran triumphed over Velzar, who was furthermore entrapped into stone by the three Zenithians, but Baran incurred serious wounds. Trying to heal himself in a lake with curative properties for Dragon Knights, he almost succumbed to his wounds but was saved by Soala, the princess of Alkeed who gave him the water and nurse him back to health, therefore, stopping the death in battle of Baran. Another oddity would occur when Baran and Soala fell in love with one another and bear a child, whom they named Dino. Although unknown at the time, Dino would also be able to develop his own Dragon Knight powers despite being a hybrid between a Dragon Knights and Humans, something completely unprecedented that would later recognize that the birth of their child will one day become as a miraculous act of divine will, as the power of the Dragon Knights will no longer sufficient to keep evil at bay and that their legacy will continue on longer.

Unfortunately, discrimination from the King of Alkeed would end with Dino's separation from their parents and Baran to almost be executed in public, which ended horribly with Soala dying shielding him. Angry at the King's cruel disowning of his daughter, Baran destroyed the kingdom and developed a severe misanthropy, joining with the Dark King Vearn in destroying humanity, therefore effectively running opposite of the Dragon Knight's intended mission by causing destruction and imbalance and aid an objectively evil force bent on world domination.

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Dai the little hero was born as a divine will.

Dino, adopted as Dai by the wise Lump shaman Brass, would grow into a fit young boy with the potential to be a hero, tutored by Avan the human hero who defeated Hadlar and brought peace to the world, filling Baran's forsaken role. In a cruel twist of fate, Dai would ally himself with the Disciples of Avan and other parties in battle against Vearn's Dark Army, commanded by Hadlar and ultimately confront his own father who was one of the Dark Army's Legion Commanders, making it the first ever known instance of two Dragon Knights fighting each other in opposite ends. As Dai sided with humanity, Baran, in an attempt to regain custody of his son, forced a memory erasure through the use of Dragon Crest resonance, regressing Dai as an innocent child, although Dai would regain all his memories back with the help of his friends and ultimately defeat his own father in a brutal battle between Dragon Knights, Dai being even able to move his own Dragon Crest from his forehead to his fist, another thing no Dragon Knight before had ever achieved. With Baran now beginning to heal his misanthropy pain due to Popp's selfless actions, even reviving him with his Dragon blood, and acknowledging the resolve of his son, he departed, but not before warning that their next encounter would probably be a fight to the death. However, said bloody confrontation never happened, as following Baran's defeat, he would learn of Vearn's true purpose of destroying the entire surface world, not just humanity; seeing that Vearn's goal was destruction in a far larger scale than he imagined, Baran defected from the Dark Army and waged his own battle against the evil Dark King.

As the war between humanity and the Dark Army progressed, Baran ultimately sacrificed himself to save Dai from a cowardly attack by Vearn, expiring after passing his crest onto his own son, granting him an extra dose of power and making Dai the only known case of a Dragon Knight with two crests. After his near-death experience due to his disastrous first fight against Vearn, Dai met the Holy Mother Dragon in person, who had come to collect his soul, only to discover that the death she has sensed was the one of Baran. Due to her very existence being slowly eaten away by an evil presence, with not much time left of her lifespan, she nevertheless originally planned to make Dai the last Dragon Knight. However, after being reasoned with by Baran about just how much special the nature of Dai truly was, the Holy Mother Dragon, recognizing it as a divine act, changed her mind; she instead spent the last of her power by giving it Dai, disappearing forever. With her passing, no new Dragon Knights would be born from nothing, and for their lineage to continue from that moment forward, it would depend solely on Dai and his own descendants.

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With the Holy Mother Dragon disappear forever, Dai will continue the lineage and the legacy of the dragon Knights.

With the newfound increase of power, and his allies help, Dai would eventually defeat the Dark King for good. The festivities, however, were cut short, as Vearn's last servant and Velzar's envoy, Killvearn, revealed himself of being still alive, and attempted to enact his own plot to destroy the opposition for his master, as well as humanity, through the use of a genocidal weapon, a Black Core. Taking the bomb far in the stratosphere with Levizoom, Dai would ultimately stop the dangerous explosion but end up missing somewhere far way; still his allies, certain thanks to the soul-linked Sword of Dai of his wellbeing, decided to wait for him, believing in his eventual return to the world. Thusly Dai followed through the mission of the Dragon Knights, despite being the first and only hybrid one.

Jump Force[]

Story mode[]

In chapter 8, Seiya compares the dragon knight Dai with the dragon saint Shiryu.

Fighting mode[]

Before a fight against Shiryu, Dai compares him to dragon knight.

Power and abilities[]

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Dragon Knights are the most powerful beings in the trio of worlds.

Dragon Knights are single-handedly the most powerful species of all of existence in the entire Dragon Quest franchise, having a multitude of traits and unique abilities that would grant them tremendous incredible power over any known life form in existence. Only the most powerful of Dragons and Darklings are capable of challenging their powers. Dragon Knights are prodigious warriors with great swordsmanship and will grow stronger at a faster rate than normal. Dragon Knights would also have an abnormal ability to synthesize with all kinds of spells, something considered extremely rare even by talented mage standards, although their ability for spellcasting may not fully develop without further training or activating their Dragon Crest.

Dai uses Fire Earth Slash (2020)

Dai use his Magic Sword ability to create Fire Earth Slash.

As a child, they aren't as monstrous as the legend says but they're no different to humans, because when they grow up as an adult, they'll possess power to cause fear to the people. Dragon Knights have the ability to fuse magic spells with sword skills call the Magic Sword ability that can create an attack both physical and magical in nature to greatly reinforce its overall destructive power and bypass spell resistant protection, predating the Armamentalist vocation. They also have access to zap-type spells that are used by heroes.

Blood

Dragon blood

Dragon blood is the blood of a pure dragon knight that can not only resurrect someone to only those who have strong will similar to the resurrection spell zing, but it can also make them stronger over time.

A dragon knight's lifespan is slightly but longer that of humans.

Dragon Crest's Power[]

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Dai activate his dragon crest

The signature trait of the Dragon Knights is the source of their power within them, typically activated by a strong surge of emotions, an energy crest will materialize in their foreheads increasing their power and defense and allowing them to cast any spell they synergized with. A Dragon Crest can be inherited through the holy mother dragon and although making the user possess two dragon crests in the same body is such incredibly rare instance to the next impossible as generally only one Dragon Knight exists per era. While the Dragon Crest is inactivated, they are similar to a human, being possible to kill them with weapons and magic. Normally, Dragon Knights can't control the power of the dragon crest until adulthood, although presumably that some minor dragon knights can control the dragon crest through tough training and great battles.

Draconic Aura[]

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Baran use his Draconic Aura

When the crest is activated, a blue aura will increase their power and defense making their skin harder than steel that can be released. While on this state, all spells are useless against them, the only way to inflict damage is by surpassing their aura, typically through extremely powerful physical attacks. However, weapons not made from Orichalcum material cannot be used for long, as they will crumble even if made from the second strongest material in existence. An orichalcum blade that was made by the gods solely for the use of the dragon knights, the Demon Dragon Blade, the sword of choice of the dragon knights, as this self-repairing weapon was one of the very few weapons that could withstand their Draconic Aura. Normally passed down from one Dragon Knight to the next, after Baran's death, in a manner not unlike Dai's own sword, the Demon Dragon Blade accepted Dai as its new master.

Draconic Aura can be concentrated into a laser-like beam of pure energy which burns with the crest of the Dragon Knight. Hybrids can concentrate their aura in another part of the body, creating a piercing power.

Dragonoid[]

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Baran's Dragonoid form

A pure Dragon Knight can break all boundaries between humans, demons and dragons by using their Dragon Fang accessory, gaining a great increase in power. While in this form, the Dragon Knight becomes ruthless having difficulty discriminating between friend and foe, and largely abandoning restraint as they focus on attacking fundamentally anything in their proximity, even going as far as attacking someone from the back. Dragonoids have the power to use the Doruora spell that is able to annihilate an entire continent. In this form, Dragon Knight's blood turns a blue coloration like the blood of Darklings. Hybrid Dragon Knights can achieve a power similar to this one, if after inheriting a second crest, the user fuses both crests on their forehead, though in truth, their power far surpasses that of Pure Dragonoids.

Genetic battle memory[]

Genetic battle memory

The Combat Instincts of the Dragon Knights

Each and every dragon knight has the battle memory experience of all those that precede them. It's best known as the Combat Instincts. The Combat Instincts of a Dragon Knight is what makes them truly formidable, even against the most dangerous of opponents.

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Trivia[]

  • Dragon Quest of the Stars has a Dragon Knight equipment released alongside the Sword of Dai. The winged circlet seems based on Dai's knight armour piece from Bengarna, the rest appears loosely based on a young Baran and the dragon knight from chapters 82 and 99 plus a new shield.
  • The translation of Jump Force is inconsistent, using "dragon knight" in the story mode and "Super Dragon" in the battle introduction.
  • The only known cases of Dragon Knights are Baran and Dai, as such it is unknown if Dragon Knights can also be female.
  • Because of his heritage, Dai is technically 4/6 Human, and 1/6 Dragon and Darkling each.
  • Dragon Knights are technically considered to be heroes since they have protected the world's balance from evil.

Other languages[]

Other languages
French Chevalier dragon
German Drachenritter
Spanish Caballero Dragón
Latin American Spanish Unknown
Italian Cavaliere Drago
Dutch Unknown
Norwegian Unknown
Greek Unknown
Portuguese Unknown
Russian Unknown
Chinese
Korean
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