While I don't think Lucifer and ferrovax are the same, I do believe Lucifer was once a dragon before his fall. The loosing of his celestial position, the loss of his wings as it were, made him the serpent.
Probably not the same. Mostly I was just interested in the similar parts of their names. As we know, names have great power. But I don't actually believe Lucifer was a Dragon per se...however I do suspect that we are not yet fully aware of what Dragons are and perhaps there is some connection to the Prince of Darkness in terms of duties. The loss of wings is an interesting idea, but then again it isn't like the Fallen lost their powers either. We haven't seen any Fallen (normally represented by shadows) have wings. We have seen "wings" present around Angels...after a fashion. See Butters when fighting Ethniu.
I always have wondered whether Jim will discuss the relevance of wings when it comes to Angels. Mostly in art they represent flight, as that is the only way to access the sky and therefore the Heavens. He has hinted that Angels look more...Hellboy than Renaissance art. Eyes on wings, made of triangles and flaming wheels etc. He said it was to do with the human mind failing to process a being and so get a distorted view.
There is also the argument that Lucifer is merely fulfilling his part in the Great Plan. Power has purpose after all, and an all-knowing omnipotent Creator (TWG) should theoretically have included this in the plan. Otherwise it suggests a few things:
1) The Creator isn't all-powerful and/or all-knowing (in which Lucifer has somehow outplayed or is able to defy the will of the Creator) OR;
2) The Creator isn't as benevolent to it's creations as believed (So Lucifer and all his evil is actually a creation of the Creator) OR;
3) The Creator doesn't really care/is focussed on other things (The Creator either can't or chooses not to care for Creation i.e. The Creator is off doing other things OR The Creator is more like an amoral force such as Gravity and it simply isn't in it's nature to care).
Of the 3, I think the last is least likely due to a variety of reasons like having Angels in the first place and protections for Creation, plus actually taking a part in events. Not to mention Uriel saying TWG is everywhere and experiences everything all at once...therefore can't actually not care about Creation. This also makes 2 quite unlikely but not impossible. TWG might have a different view on Creation to us...in fact by definition it must. That could mean it views Lucifer and his evil as necessary.
But mostly I think 1 would be the most likely. Not because TWG can't do anything per se...but because of self-imposed limits (planned or otherwise) and the fragility of reality. But I will leave it at that for now.
I don't see it, however you did provide some great information. Based on what you posted I think that he'd be a nightmare for someone like Mab or any Sidhe to face.....
I suspect he would be regardless. Tbh...the only being that has frightened him is Ethniu (although I'd bet the Mothers and other high-level gods could too), and he was wary of Vadderung. Also, he must be wary enough of Mab otherwise why would he sign her Accords? Mab, like Harry, can clearly fight well outside her weight-class and win.
I didn't think Michael was being quite that literal about 'blood of the Dragon, that old serpent' at the time he applied that insult to the Black Court, way back in GP. But given what BG and the WOJ's about Drakul / Vlad III / the BCV's origins have revealed since GP, it's certainly interesting.
So, if Lucifer also had a Dragon mantle / persona, and Michael was onto something about the Black Court carrying his blood in a way more specific than Lucifer as a vague root-of-all-evil ... with Drakul in the middle ... does that make Drakul the progeny of Lucifer? Essentially the Antichrist?
I'm not exactly ready to buy into that interpretation. It certainly explains the 'something monstrous, trapped in human form' WOJ description of Drakul. But the major sticking point for me would be how it's supposed to make sense that the one Archangel that fell overlapped as also a Dragon, but the others apparently don't.
Nor did I when I read it. All the same I think Jim keeps toying with us around it. I have heard both very good and very bad theories about Drakul and what he might be and his purpose. I like the idea of him being the antichrist - you'll see why below.
It's interesting you suggest Lucifer as the root-of-all-evil. Jim mentioned in that interview with Priscilla (20 years of Dresden I think, right after the release of BG) that Lucifer was in-part responsible for why the Gods don't have good recollections and conflicting accounts of the beginning of Creation. Jim has also mentioned Lucifer's argument with The Almighty has bent the universe out of shape, and that it all starts back at the Fall. He vaguely hinted this is connected to the starborn (as the starborn thing has been going on since the beginning of time apparently). So perhaps there isn't "an" Antichrist but potentially thousands upon thousands of potential Antichrists. Perhaps Drakul is a version of one. If you look at things from the perspective of beings that exist outside of linear time, I suspect everything in the beginning is connected to events at the end. I mean, to them there might hardly be a difference (at least the way we see it).
What I have never been able to reconcile in the series is where Lucifer fits in with the Outsiders. Did they corrupt him? Or did he somehow just break down (which suggests in part he was able to change himself, and therefore make choices)? We know the Outsiders end goal is basically the end of all Creation. But Lucifer's doesn't seem to be that. It does seem to require the continuation of Creation (at the very least so he can argue with the Creator). So who was evil first, and which influenced what?
