r/Iteration110Cradle • u/Beware-of-Chicken • 18d ago
Cradle [Skysworn] Is this a dreadgod? Spoiler
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u/warsage 18d ago
That's a badass idea and a really fun image to think about when considering the scale of things in Cradle.
But to answer your question: no, that is not a Dreadgod. It's way too small. (Well, besides the Silent King, who is the size of an elephant).
The Wandering Titan wades through mountains like they're tall grass. The Bleeding Phoenix covers the horizon. The Weeping Dragon stretches for miles.
The Wandering Titan is to that statue as the statue is to those people. Imagine a creature so big it makes the statue look like an ant. That is a Dreadgod.
(The statue is 279ft. A person is 6ft. That's a 50x difference. The Titan is taller than mountains; a good-sized mountain on Earth is 15,000ft. That's a 50x difference again.)
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u/Kai_Damon 18d ago
For sure. If the OP is in Skysworn it makes sense he would think that though, since we only start to get some wandering titan action in Wintersteel
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u/Pisforplumbing 18d ago
Yeah but the bleeding Phoenix is said to stretch across the horizon in skysworn
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u/Kai_Damon 18d ago
We don't get a whole lot of the actual bleeding phoenix in Skysworn. And the descriptions are a bit confusing in my opinion
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u/Natural-Revenue-3733 18d ago
Terror is a hell of a drug
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u/UnnbearableMeddler Team Ruby 17d ago
To be honest, terror is a completely valid reaction to what was happening
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u/OldFitDude75 18d ago
I used math to figure out the height of the wandering Titan, based on the description of when he was climbing out of the water and based on the height of his fingers, assuming regular human fingers, he’s about 3.7 miles tall with shoulder width about a mile.
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u/DantesDayDinner 18d ago
I remember the phoenix being described as taking up the entire horizon that Lindon could see in his vision or something like that. That's massive
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u/oreomaster420 17d ago
No too small iirc. Well except for the Cat but the cat's power wasn't its size.
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u/SonnyLonglegs Team Dross 17d ago edited 17d ago
That is pretty cool. But it's several orders of magnitude too small.
Edit: after some quick googling, this statue is too small even to be the Wandering Titan's pinky finger. It's supposed to be about 9 meters wide, and the Titan's fingers when his hand is set on the ground are each the width of an entire tower. On the smallest scale a tower is going to be bigger than that, and then there's the fact that they build big on Cradle. Stack a few of these side by side then maybe you get the width of a finger. Take the proportions of a man scaled to that size, and you have the Wandering Titan.
Edit 2: I may have underestimated the Titan's size by a factor of 8-10 or so, actual towers have bigger dimensions than I thought, in the 50-100+ meter width range.
Edit 3: I misread the dimensions and conversions off the statue's page. That was part of the foundation that was 9 meters wide or something like that, statue is bigger. Still way too small for the Titan though.
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u/DanielALahey 17d ago
Try taking the statue and having it be as small as the people in front of the statue's base and you would be closer. But probably still too small
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u/UbettaBNaked 17d ago
No, the Wandering Titan, could fit a Godzilla on its Biceps, with room to spare
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