To reiterate, Ignitus took on the role because a new age was dawning (honestly, you kill one meglomaniac and it's a new age all of a sudden), and the original chronicler had a hazy idea of a tradition that meant he needed a successor.

I am pretty sure the he was like many before him..often a failure or etc one who longed for the knowledge after death of thier main death.

[glow=indigo:461f1d6343][/glow:461f1d6343]I was thinking about this the other day, at the end of the credits in DOTD, why does ignitus and the other dragon combine?

WRONG.

Basicaly like my shezi *points up* said.

once a new age starts they pass of the role for the new guy to document time, going on and on and on.

No, what actually happened, something you'd know if you'd paid attention to the melodramatic prose, was Ignitus was assigned the role of chronicler to document "the new age", and the original chronicler decided to spontaneously die in a shiny light rather than enjoy the world outside his cave.

To reiterate, Ignitus took on the role because a new age was dawning (honestly, you kill one meglomaniac and it's a new age all of a sudden), and the original chronicler had a hazy idea of a tradition that meant he needed a successor.