Theory - Mystery of The Ender Dragon (Puff's Theory)

[maiden tundra]

Ok so I crafted a theory about the ender dragon. This took me 2 days.

I originally wanted to make a small theory as to how the respawn anchor and the end portal were connected but I instead went deeep into it and wrote an 8 pages document. Anyway this is a big one so be prepared cuz this could be controvertial, so grab your snacks, put your critical thinking glasses on and enjoy! Please comment and let me know what you think down below cuz I'm very interested in hearing what you guys think.

Link's down below so let's get into it!

[umbral moss]

we have little to no proof of any dragons existing before Jenny. All ender mobs do seem to disintegrate on death, the final boss the most important one, still disintegrates in death. The fact that a gateway generates everytine we kill a dragon doesnt mean that there were multiple dragons, in fact it supports the theory that its artificial. In defeating the dragon, you get access to the rest of the end, which could imply that it was meant to be unaccessible at first, unless you defeat the ender dragon. I think this eas designed by HoE to prevent people from invading his land where he is vulnerable. He can safely influence the world from a distance with an orb or a possesed messenger but if that fails he never truly loses. After Player defeats the dragon, he installed multiple safeguards like more ender species.

i have more but my ohones running out of battery

[maiden tundra]

My issue with that is by the way you are spelling it, you're making it sound like the dragon was initially designed to gatekeep the end but then they chose to make it so that when killed you can access the outer end. It is plausible that it's a failsafe measure to make sure whoever comes through is human or worthy or smt considering even the wither cant kill the damn thing, but it still doesnt hold up to me. Why make it so you have to kill it to get to the outer end and make it respawnable? That feels to me like an unwanted occurrense. Also maybe it's just me or the way you phrased it so I apologise if I sound like I am being mean or like I think I know better. I dont. Bbut I think you're overlooking the main point. The end gateways. Why make it possible for there to be so many crystals to access the main island if the whole point is for it to not be reached from anyone coming in or out as shown by the void gap separating it. That doesn't fully make sense even when you say it's just so they can keep an eye on the main island. Why allow anyone to go there and possibly attack it? I've already listed my reasons for thinking it's not artificial. The discrepancies when looking at how the dragon works and what we find in the end all seems to point towards it not being one. The portals dont seem there by design choice, the dragon clearly isnt meant to be killed and no one seems to have done so considering theres no gateway till we do so...the dragon we see disintegrates yes, but it also comes back to life everytime we kill it, begging the question of weather or not it's even normal that one does it. Is it canon that the dragon and or all dragons always vaporized? The one dragon we know of has been magically bound to that portal for who knows how long, we cant even be sure weather it is how it was supposed to be or if magic corrupted it and retained only some of its original features genetically wise.

Do we the player and all other mobs actually turn into gas when killed or is it just gameplay?
Also...the egg. I'll just say that my problem with the dragon being a construct and soley used to gatekeep the end as what it was created for and therefore connected to the portal and pillars, invalidates the point of the egg itself. Why make it so that a dragon can create an egg if it is supposed to be unkillable and left alive and if killed can be brough back? Why add a further measure of this kind that doesnt work in case the original one dies. The builders have been shown to be able to create constructs that clone themselves so they knew how to make it possible for them to be able to make it possible to reproduce asexually makes sense but considering when you summon the dragon again if the egg is still there, it will break it, feels like it's not intentional and therefore the egg isnt a measure of defense, but rather something unpresidented or unexpected. Why at all create a possible successor for the dragon if the whole point of the dragon is for it to gatekeep the end and be potentially respawned with its crystals upon that. It doesnt make sense to me

[umbral moss]

The egg is actually supposed to be used to respawn the dragon with the crystals in a official guide book. (I think, I apologize if I misremembered)

[umbral moss]

It is the final boss and it has a whole animation for explosing into pure energy. When it dies everyone across all three dimensions can hear it. I think its a Entity, not unlike HoE or EoN. Perhaps its even HoE in another form. It seems to signifant to be a species with hundreds all over the end. Opens a teleportational portal with void magic? Explodes into pure energy when dead? Opens a dimensional gateway also when it dies? Its possible that all of this is because of the ender crystals magic pouring into it, but the end crystals doesnt seem THAT powerful. If all of that is because if the Void Magic imbued into it, i think it already counts as a different species. Im aldo just gonna go check your doc again for any other proof for other dragons existing

[maiden tundra]

Precisely, the other species part. What I'm trying to say is that it's possible the dragon we face has changed drastically from its original state because of that exposition to void energy which in terms may be what caused it to become so aggressive yet to disintegrate into dust.

I do very much think there is a chance it reached a level of godhood on some level because of the power it absorbed, if it didnt have it prior considering its properties...tho it still remains vague and we can't fully determine it because we only have this one as a mark of reference

The other points you make are very valid too but the one about its last roar, I'm sceptic about. If we are to believe it can be heard from any and all 3 dimensions just like the end portal opening it could also have gameplay implications. I'm not deminishing its canonicity, I'm only saying we can't know for sure if that's something that happens in lore

Dont really have anything to say about the egg based on official information tbh because idk how to feel about it...what guide book was it? Because the mobestiary was also technically considered official for a while tho it isn't really anymore so...I'd like to look at it if possible, just because since we are here we may as well go deep into this to really understand what's going on

I do have a suspicion the dragon could in fact be an entity chained to the main island in a similiar matter to which the wither and or the EoN have been said to have been imprisoned by the humans and possibly lagers too, but idk tbh, it is a compelling theory but I'm not fully sure myself simply because we don't have much indication of it. The end portal poem tho not surely canon does suggest and outright present us with 2 entities dialoguing so us, possibly another one of them ascended to mortal form taking down an incarnation of another entity or god would make sense but im not sure

Also you mentioned the dragon being able to summon a new gateway upon its death each time is something of unpresidented power that doesn't seem to be possible for a normal entity or mob...which in all fairness it isn't but maybe the other ones weren't either. The one we see can break almost all blocks, is invulnerable to void and drops an incredible amount of exp which the enchantments on the end cities armour could have been made with but I'm getting of track...my question is what is your explanation for the other end portal gateways if you believe the ones we see made by the dragon aren't natural? Are those artificial made by the builders or are they the result of killing this construct prior to being taken to the end island or smt else? What do you think is going on with those if the one we see is an entity of some kind or something else?

I'm not pointing fingers or anything, I'm just asking you because I'm genually curious on what your whole perspective on this is

[umbral moss]

Why would that apply to gameplay?

[umbral moss]

They are very possibly natural, a gameplay mechanic, but I think they could be creations of HoE. If you think he's a ex-host trying to use a single dimension to conquer them all or a god to the end, it works because this helps progress the end, just like how he created a portal for the piglins.

[umbral moss]

Most polite theorist I've ever met

[maiden tundra]

Aww, you're flattering me. Thank you

[maiden tundra]

While I'm not fully into the idea, it could be a possibility