When that peace offering event is exploited with betrayal and ruined by the return of the Druuns, the gem is broken and its divided parts are confiscated by the other ruling powers. Benja has recently anointed his spirited daughter Raya as the next projector while he seeks diplomacy with the other tribes to unite Kumandra again. Heart’s success and perceived favor, currently stewarded by Chief Benja (TV star Daniel Dae Kim), has led the other neighboring regions to madly covet and constantly target Heart to steal that precious jewel.

All that remained was a gem of their residual magic now protected by the royal family bloodline that leads the land of Heart. It cost all the dragons their lives, save one, a dormant legend named Sisu. Five centuries earlier, the unified magic of powerful guardian dragons extinguished the amassed destruction brought on by rolling, smoky Druuns, a horde of all-consuming miniature plagues that turned the people they enveloped into stone. Raya and the Last Dragon divulges the tumultuous history of the splintered land of Kumandra. The movie hits the premium tier of Disney+ on March 5th.

Nestled in a completely foreign realm of magic and myth, the real-life parallels woven into the high fantasy of Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon couldn’t ring louder or truer if it stole every bell in the record-holding Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. But the “lies” work because memorable stories dazzle and impress eyes and hearts at the same time. To be specific to the film at hand, that’s damn never every Disney classic too. That’s everything from the wildest fairy tales to most present realistic fiction of the given era. That is beautifully blunt, and undeniably correct, wisdom from Gaiman. We are taking people who do not exist and things that did not happen to those people in places that aren't, and we are using those things to communicate true things to kids.”

To him, “one of the central tools of literature is using the ‘lie’ of a made-up story to tell a human truth.” Speaking on the vitality of creating memorable stories with their deliberate takeaways, Gaiman doubles-down to add: LESSON #1: TRUTH IN FICTION- Seeing Disney’s Raya in the Last Dragon calls to mind a fundamental principle of fiction outlined by famed graphic novel storyteller Neil Gaiman in a session of his MasterClass course.

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