My notes on the Spyro 4 art that was released. If you noticed anything interesting share yours.

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[Original Picture](https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images//35220668/5a392fdb0ee89e02954454208034769f8b33b69c.jpg)

Wasn't a lot to go off here. If you can't read the text, here are the basic points:

1. The many dragon-like statues suggest this was a large dragon city at some point. They either fled or were exterminated. But I'm leaning towards the dragons from Spyro 1 are refugees or colonies from here that were running from something. 2. The wing gateways seem to be part of an aerial road system. I suspect Spyro has to keep passing through these gateways along the way or something to maintain flight. 3. Though it is interesting that the gates resemble bird wings, not dragon wings. Perhaps an artistic choice but the city is full of dragon-like statues so why suddenly step away from that. Perhaps these dragons had feathered wings. They don't look avian but maybe eastern? This does feel like Pandaria a bit.But none of the statues seem to have them, so perhaps these aren't dragons or they were wingless dragons. Or female dragons didn't have wings but ignoring that Spyro 3 undermines this, I'm skeptical that's where this is going. 4. The three gateways give the impression of three dragon cultures and three elemental worlds. Jungle, volcano, and ocean/river. Perhaps another elemental magic system. 5. The blue gate is damaged with ribbons. I assume the ribbons would have worn out before the stone did so it was probably damaged before the ribbons but they decided to decorate it instead. So perhaps they are the artistic dragons. - The green gate is covered in moss. Implying they are forest dragons and didn't see a reason to remove the moss or them using the gate caused moss to grow. - The red gate is clean, undamaged, and undecorated. This gives me military vibes. They maintain their gate but leave it plain.