Im on the fence interpreting the dragons as straight up independent creatures or a mass mutation of hundreds of atlanteans merged together to form a truly horrific entity
Also, I would think theyd be in the water w/o wings, but would PROBABLY be large enough to not even need to fly. Sky islands are still cooked.
We gotta go four the triple-pronged approach here.
Masses of atlanteans smashed together create some grotesque drakes (flightless dragons, for those unaware) that become exceedingly hard to kill because they’re multiple organisms, like a Man O’ War.
We can then talk about atlantean-corrupted dragons… But the first idea I had was corrupted sea serpents that would fire sprays of tainted seawater from their mouths? Could be interesting to essentially have an active threat that poisons people and makes actual sea travel more dangerous.
but instead of that its water poisoning
hear me out
water poisoning is poison, as in; it breaks down your body
so too much water poisoning could mean you get melted into a blob
along with atlantean dragons thered probably be other mythical creatures turn atlantean in the dark sea too
considering this game is based on greek mythology i could imagine like an atlantean hydra or minotaur existing
we know giants existed in AO so there could be atlantean giants too
narwhal horns imply the existence of narwhals, but narwhal horns give warding
so there needs to be a lot more insanity and dark sea shenanigans for a narwhal to get atlantean-fied
now heres my take: once a narwhal gets atlanteanied, it annihilates because insanity and warding are like matter and antimatter it acts like a catalyst/beacon and emits an ‘aura’ of insanity