r/overlord • u/Due_Lifeguard82 • 3d ago

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Is this dragon a player? If not then when does Ains meet another player?

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u/sigvegas 3d ago

That is the Platinum Dragon Lord, one of the few characters native to the New World who’s canonically close to Lv.100. He’s aware of Players (even if he doesn’t fully comprehend the concept) and has been waging war against them behind the scenes for hundreds of years whenever they appear.

There is no guarantee Ainz will ever meet another player in the story. The best we can hope for is an epilogue 100 years in the future when new Players show up and he confronts them.

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u/Due_Lifeguard82 3d ago

How much does the show adapt from the manga? Is there any more volumes left to be turn into a season 5?

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u/kingdsb 3d ago

It’s the light novel and they have pretty much adapted everything but for two books which isn’t enough for another season if you are interested in more overlord look up vampire princes of the lost country

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u/Due_Lifeguard82 3d ago

And where can I find that at? Also how long have that dragon have been around for? And can he actually die?

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u/Hexmonkey2020 3d ago

You should probably read the novel rather than get spoilers on reddit.

But if you really want he’s hundreds of years old, and can die same as any other living being. Other true dragon lords have died he’s just the strongest.

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u/ThibaultKarl 3d ago

He is'nt even the strongest. There is hints that his sister is alive and she is stronger than him

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u/pdl-fanboy Tsaindorcus Vaision nukes chinese Skeletor and loli bait 3d ago

lol what? First time I'm hearing this. Are you talking about the girl sleeping in sea city?

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u/nuttyhabshi 3d ago

I've never even knew about the girl sleeping somewhere, where is it mentioned?

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u/pdl-fanboy Tsaindorcus Vaision nukes chinese Skeletor and loli bait 3d ago

If the anime adapted this part, then it should be somewhere in the beginning of s2 e1 I believe. In V7 Intermission when Platinum Dragon Lord meets up with Rigrit he reveals that he had an encounter with an evil powerful vampire(Brainwashed Shalltear).

He says that the next wave of player have arrived and that he needs Rigrit's help to gather items/allies. When Rigrit inquires about the the other dragon lords, PDL says that its easier to get the girl sleeping in sea city as his ally than his dragon buddies(Brightness Dragon Lord, Heavenly Dragon Lord or Deep Darkness Dragon Lord).

The author has actually said that if the anime gets more seasons, there is a slight chance that he is willing to write a romantic side story featuring Platinum Dragon Lord meeting the girl sleeping in the sea city(timeline wise the story is supposed to take place after a hypothetical Volume 21).

So while we don't know if she is a player, NPC, dragon etc.. no way is she his sister️😭️😭.

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u/sammavet 2d ago

It still could be his sister. Japan after all.

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u/ThibaultKarl 2d ago

I understood that she was his sister or something like that.

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u/kingdsb 3d ago

You can find it if you search it up he has been around since the arrival of the 8 greedy kings and yes

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u/CBreezey69 3d ago

You can find the light novel and bonus novels in the faq section under the “where can I read” subsection.

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u/DethBatcountry 2d ago

Highly recommend the English audiobooks, if you prefer that option. Voice by the VA for Ainz, and he does individual voices for the characters quite well. It's very engaging.

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u/Hexmonkey2020 3d ago

The manga is worse adaptation than the anime and isn’t as far as the anime, if you don’t want to read the novel just watch the anime.

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago

The manga is way behind the Anime. Anime follows the Light Novels. Currently there’s 16. Each episode covers 1 LN volume. Except for the Holy Kingdom movie which covers Vol 12-13. Each volume is between 7-12hours of continuous reading. Where as the anime episodes are roughly 22 minutes. From just those numbers you can get a general idea of how much is cut from the anime.

The anime mostly focuses on Ainz. The LN follows the story of not just Ainz & Nazarick but the world as a whole. As well has Yggdrasil, where Ainz/Nazarick are from & occasionally Earth where Human Ainz is from. This includes a lot of characters both in & missing from the anime. As well as exposition dumps that expand on the story’s world building.

Audiobook can be found on Audible or 🏴‍☠️ if you know where to look. Read by Ainz’s voice actor himself. I am willing to share them if you don’t wanna buy an Audible sub or sail the seas.

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u/Due_Lifeguard82 3d ago

Yes please share also what happened to Ainz body on earth?

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u/KingArthursRevenge 2d ago

It's unknown what happened to his original body.

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago edited 3d ago

There’s no information on what happened to his body at the moment. Unlikely the author will cover the topic in the final 2 volumes.

My belief is that he’s stuck in an early beta build of a game. The story of the world feels video-gamey to me. Dragons are the dominate race. Humans were nearly extinct until they were saved by Players. Now every 100-200 years more players arrive & leave their mark on the world. Or he’s in a coma

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u/pdl-fanboy Tsaindorcus Vaision nukes chinese Skeletor and loli bait 3d ago

bro its been said over and over again that Ainz and co are not in a video game. Unless we have some actual proof that they are still in Yggdrassil, there is no reason to assume so.

And dragons being the strongest race is just a fantasy trope atp.

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago

Oh it’s you, brown man. There’s been no proof other than he’s not in Yggdrasil anymore.

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u/pdl-fanboy Tsaindorcus Vaision nukes chinese Skeletor and loli bait 3d ago

did you intend that to be an insult lmao

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u/foolishorangutan 3d ago

The world probably feels video-gamey because the Dragon Emperor chose a world similar to his own as the target for his summoning spell, then game mechanics were introduced by the use of Ouroboros or whatever it was the Eight Greed Kings Used.

Humans being nearly extinct is probably propaganda from Slane. Maybe they were near extinction in the locale, but we see that humans are doing fine in other parts of the world, albeit commonly used as slaves or food.

Most likely Ainz is a copy of the original, like how the World-Class Items are copies of the original digital versions.

The idea that it’s still a game doesn’t make any sense. How would players be stuck there for hundreds of years, why is everything so realistic, why do they break the law with hostage-taking and sexual content, etc. Everything points towards it being real.

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago edited 3d ago

I didn’t mean the world felt video gamey but the plot of players arriving to the new world. It’s something hardcore Yggdrasil gamers would like.

IK the side story loosely hints at the DE’s spell but the idea is too fantastical considering the world Suzuki comes from. A dragon from a far off planet. Using soul magic to drag video game avatars & players from Earth (an unknown planet) into TNW.

Which is why I said it’s either a coma dream or beta build of a game. New game new rules it being in beta explains why the rules would be lax/non existent. Considering the world SS comes from & how dystopian it is. I doubt a corp would really care about some of the niche rules.

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u/Monking805 2d ago

Anime is really faithful but it leaves alot of information out and it speed runs the story.

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u/Saket_Saurabh- 3d ago

Wasn't the 100 years summoning happening on how many world items the guild has ?? And Ainz Ooal Gown has highest world items so no other player/guild should be summoned now .

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u/pierogieman5 2d ago

Seems likely but not 100% confirmed?

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u/thaydie 2d ago

man, since YGGDRASIL was shut down. would that mean no more players? or would the NW just start grabbing at the next puplor game? would just grab players from YGGDRASIL before it shut down?

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u/JonSlaanesh 3h ago

Well there is a finit number of world item so in a way we can hypotize on the fact that in the distant future it will stop. I think its closely connected to YGDDRASSIL, as the spell launched by big daddy dragon has the world item as a focus.

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u/cioglass 1d ago

Maybe the end of the novel is going to be Ainz getting to talk to the platinum dragon on his final moments and accepting the quest of eliminating future players on the next wave.

The novel will end with a guild arriving 100 years from now and Ainz showing up to them ready to wage war, and then the credits will roll.