Where are the drakes?!?!

Yeah, seen that after I clicked post, stupid autocorrect on my smartphone

The High Dragons got hungry.

Are dragons cannibals? They don't seem like it, but as they say, any port in a storm...

I got that, like the other person said they got "too big," but it does raise an interesting thing though; would a high dragon, with very little to eat like in the anderfels, cannibalize their own in any way to survive?

A lot of animals are, out of necessity.

They went out to get a pack of cigarettes. They haven't been seen since. 😄

Yeah, but once they cross the veil, they're physical beings right? Otherwise they couldn't hit you with attacks. Some demons do use magical attacks, like wraiths and desire demons, but rage demons and shades physically attack. Same with a Sylvan. Maybe there's a vegan high dragon in the world.

Back on topic, could the great dragons have something to do with drakes not being present? Like the calling with the grey warden's, but they call in all drakes to try and diversify the bloodlines and make new great dragons?

Actually, we do eat all kinds of metal and plastics, but it's miniscule amounts. I'm not sure where or when I read that every person has ingested almost a gram of plastic, but iron and zinc are metals that are used in supplements and vitamins. Doesn't mean that DA uses the same stuff, though...

You get my point. Just like we wouldn’t eat a plastic plate because it doesn’t give us any nourishment, a dragon wouldn’t hunt a demon for the same reason. The only reason they’d ever eat a demon is to defend itself or it’s children.

I don't see why not. Demons have been known to possess anything from trees, corpses, living rams, and cats. And we don't have much reason to believe dragons are any more resistant to possession than any other animal, despite demons finding them unpopular in terms of possession choices (much like other animals).

And we do have an example of a spirit doing just that with the Hakkon possessing a dragon (I can't quite remember if the dragon was alive or dead when possessed, though). Although it should very much be noted that this particular instance was spurred by an avaar ritual that forced the dragon to be a vessel rather than it being a 'natural' possession. There are admittedly theories that dragons are more resistant to possession somehow since they have an obvious magical component to them and that whole "blood of the world" mention, but we don't have much a throughline in terms of how or why that theoretical property would be applied. Same for why dragons have a resistance to the taint.

But if we are strictly talking about theories, then I will land on a solid "yes" for demons being able to possess a dead or living drakes/dragons. It's just a matter if a demon would want to that's the real kicker. Possessed dragons seem to be a rarity despite their relative abundance in the aptly-named Dragon Age. Not sure that possible possession would be due to a drake/dragon 'eating' a demon/spirit though. Most possessions are based on one will overriding the other, or one party letting the other in, but an 'eaten' demon would presumably just be ichor....I suppose it may be theoretically possible if the demon was still alive, but I doubt eating it will make it suddenly work like a pill where swallowing it has a known affect. Rather, it will just have to possess the drake/dragon by using the same method used when possessing other animals. Presumably it would be initiated in a last ditch effort instead of being 'digested' (again, ichor, not sure how that would go down a dragon's digestive tract).