Fear

Fear is an element acquired by Cynder in The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon.

History

Fear is truely the most intimidating among all natural elements, emotions and extreme tramau allows the dragon to take part of dividing sanity and manipulate actions for prey to do, which stops all neurological activity. A Fear Dragon must be stronger than the inner evil or else the clarity and concentration is corrupted. A pure heart can give access to full control over the trickery of fear. Knowledge also gives lack of understanding of what this element is and was.

Cynder developed this from her exposure to the darkness of Aether and thus had a true fear of herself, which her emotions birthed every hint of stentch within the Fear Element. The element was awakened from additional terror from situation with threats and insults. In other words, users like her have embraced their mistakes and given complete acceptence to their own fear.

Symbol

The symbol of fear has two different designs. In the console versions, it looks like Cynder's head colored ruby red. The eyes are squinting, giving others a glare to strike fear into their hearts. However, in the handheld version, it looks like a Ruby red skull with a black background.

Attacks

Primary Fear

• Siren Scream: Cynder can unleash her fear element as a scream. The red rays hit enemies and petrify them with fear. The sound is also loud enough to activate tuning forks.
• Blaring Siren Scream
• Piercing Siren Scream

Secondary Fear

• Phantom Fright: Cynder can release her fear element as ghastly orbs that, when near enemies, swirl around them, stun them and explode with concussive force.
• Stunning Phantom Fright
• Paralyzing Phantom Fright

Effects

The noticeable effect of fear is when the magic is used, its power can petrify foes and turn on special machinery like tune forks.

Trivia

• Part of the inspiration for Cynder's Fear element originated from the developers looking into various popular fantasy books – such as Dragon Lance. In the book series, dragons give off Dragon Fear, which frightens anyone in the vicinity to near paralysis. There are a lot of really interesting magical abilities that some of the darker dragons have, not just in that series, but in many fantasy books that deal with dragons.
• According to lead concept artist Jared Pullen, dragons of the Poison, Shadow and Fear elements exist, but the elements come from a different, darker entity instead of the light entity that created the other elements (Fire, Electricity, Ice, Earth and Wind).