Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-18016240-20131125000510/@comment-107.178.43.193-20150211190026

I've always been of the opinion that the LDB was not an incarnation of Talos, but rather was mantling him (well, mantling Hjalti and Wulfharth). Note particularly that the ghost of one of Hjalti's shield-brothers quite literally makes no distinction between the LDB and General Early-Beard, and that the LDB quite literally "walks like him" (could be Hjalti, Wulfharth, or both) when he/she walks the 7,000 steps and is crowned Dragon of the North (Ysmir, a name so closely associated with Wulfharth that the two are often interchangeable). Doesn't preclude the possibility of his/her also being a Shezarrine however, especially considering the role they play in extending the current kalpa.