Ignitus

Ignitus is one of the two overarching protagonists (alongside The Chronicler) of The Legend of Spyro trilogy. He is a fire elder dragon who serves as Spyro's mentor and father figure. 
He is voiced by who also played Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, and James Gordon in The Dark Knight trilogy.
==Appearance==
Ignitus is a reddish-orange dragon with multiple scales and blonde yellow on the chest, wings and horns. 
==Personality==
Ignitus is a wise dragon who is encouraging of others to find their gifts inside them to pursue in their dreams to accomplish heroic deeds against evil. How he sees light always having a chance is prevailing over the darkness no matter how bad things get, showing there hope will not be destroyed by despair. He bares great knowledge in martial arts, knowing tricks and maneuverers on how to attack and defend with his head, wings, legs and tail and knows unique methods on how breath fire that isn't rather typical. 
==History==
Before Spyro was born, Ignitus was a skilled dragon who, alongside many other dragons, was at war against the Dark Master Malefor and his army of Apes. While watching over the egg of the next purple dragon at the Dragon Temple, Ignitus and the other Guardians came under attack by the Dark Armies, who were ordered by Malefor to prevent Spyro's birth. In his haste, Ignitus saved Spyro's egg and sent it down the nearby Swamp river hoping for the best. After doing the deed, Ignitus returned to the temple to help defend it but arrived too late to find that the Dark Armies had overwhelmed his fellow Guardians and smashed all the other dragon eggs they were tasked in protecting. The Apke King Gaul spared one dragon egg that contained Cynder, and when Ignitus attempted to stop him from taking her, he was unsuccessful. 
After the temple raid, Ignitus and other Guardians returned to the battlefield to hold off the Dark Armies. Just as when they were about to turn the tide in the war, the black dragon Cynder came and decimated the dragon army. Ignitus watched helplessly as his fellow Guardians were taken from the battlefield by Cynder one by one, and he barely managed to escape. Years later, Spyro stumbled upon Ignitus in a cave, where the Fire Guardian was relieved to see the young dragon alive but felt their cause was too late. After being encouraged by Spyro, Ignitus guided him and Sparx to the Dragon Temple and helped take it back from the Ape forces that still lurked around. Ignitus then taught Spyro how to harness his Fire element and his basic combat skills before giving him the task in rescuing his fellow Guardians, Volteer, Cyril and Terrador. However after Spyro saved Terrador from his enslavement, Cynder arrives and attacks Spyro, forcing Ignitus to come and save him from certain doom.
Cynder overpowers Ignitus and takes him to her lair in Concurrent Skies to drain his energy in a crystal to free Malefor. Spyro came to Cynder's Lair to rescue Ignitus, but after a fight with Cynder, she was able to take the crystal and flee towards Convexity. After being released from his binds, Ignitus informs Spyro that Cynder was a dragon like him, taken from the Dragon Temple during the night of the raid but was corrupted by the Dark Master's evil. Seeing Convexity's portal opening, Ignitus fears that they were too late, but Spyro was determined to stop Cynder and the Dark Master. After Spyro defeats Cynder and frees her from Malefor's control, Ignitus congratulates Spyro for his victory and welcomes Cynder to the temple. 
Weeks later, the Dark Armies attack the Dragon Temple, and after the dragons fended them off, Ignitus discovers that Cynder was unaccounted for. While searching for her through the Pool of Visions, Ignitus and the other Guardians find out that Spyro has been having dreams related to the Mountain of Malefor and that someone called The Chronicler contacted him. Ignitus sends Spyro to find The Chronicler, and while his fellow Guardians were given other tasks, the Fire Guardian remained behind to search for Cynder. After the Night of Eternal Darkness passed, Ignitus sends the cheetah warrior Hunter to find Spyro, Cynder and Sparx when they didn't return. The Fire Guardian then goes to Warfang with his fellow Guardians as the Dark Master Malefor returned. 
Three years later during the war against Malefor's army, Ignitus reunites with Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx and helps them fight the Grublins, the Golem, and the Destroyer. While the defeat of the Golem was successful, The Destroyer was much more difficult to beat. Even when they did take it down, Malefor used his Dark Master to reanimate the Destroyer and it iniated the world's destruction; the only way for them to stop from that point was cross the Belt of Fire and defeat Malefor. This lead to Ignitus to make a sacrificial decision in shielding Spyro and Cynder enough to cross the fire but at the expense of his life, leaving them to make sure his death was not in vein. As Spyro and Cynder were battling Malefor, the Destroyer completed its journey and started the world's destruction, breaking it apart. Taking their battle to the world's core, the Dark Master was then sealed away into the crystal core by many dragon spirits. As the world continued to break apart, the spirit of Ignitus momentarily emerges to lend Spyro some final words of wisdom, which further encourages Spyro to save the world by reforming it back together. In the post credits of Dawn of the Dragon, Ignitus is chosen as the next Chronicler of the new age and begins searching for Spyro and Cynders whereabouts. 
==Trivia==
*He was originally supposed to be voiced by Jeremy Irons who voiced Scar from The Lion King.
==External Links==
*Ignitus on Spyro Wiki
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