Ni Ryong

Ni Ryong 泥竜（ノスト） Doro Ryuu（Nosuto）
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Ni Ryong, also known as the Mud Dragon, is a non-playable character who appears in Breath of Fire IV. She is a member of the powerful extra-dimensional entities known as the Endless.

Role in Breath of Fire IV

Ni Ryong makes several appearances throughout the game, both in a transparent, serpentine dragon form and smaller, human-like avatar.

The Mud Dragon appears at the cape after events at Dam.

Ryu and the party first encounter Ni Ryong indirectly at the Dam. While they attempt to get to the other side, the dragon draws closer and breaks the sluice, nearly burying the party under a river of mud. The group encounters him again at a cliff on the way to Kyria, where he has come closer in an attempt to communicate. Unable to understand him, Cray pays a nearby woman to sing a song about the Endless, hoping to gain some insight. This proves unenlightening, however, and Ni Ryong disappears, after which the party leaves without having received any clear answers. After the party left, the old lady remarks that they are already walking with a dragon alongside them.

Ni Ryong shows up again with several other members of the Endless after Ryu and Deis summon them to the Yorae Shrine and request their power. Like his brethren, he believes Ryu's meeting with Fou-Lu is an inevitable matter of destiny and that Deis's desire to return to the world she originally came from is an impossible desire best abandoned.

Finding Ni Ryong at the Sunlit Cape

Ni Ryong can be obtained by Ryu when he returns to the "?" spot north of the Dam after the events at Chek and Abandoned Village took place. There, he will find Ni Ryong in his small form who will lend him his strength.

Gallery

Rough sketches of Ni Ryong's dragon form

Ni Ryong greeting the party.

Ni Ryong disappearing after the song.

Ni Ryong in small form.

Lending his strength to the party.