The Vault of Focus

This article is about the episode. For the location, see Vault of Focus.
“If Thunderfang has gathered enough souls to attempt to become a Source Dragon, the immense power will be visible from all the Merged Lands.”
— Bleckt

The Vault of Focus is the seventeenth episode of the third season of Ninjago: Dragons Rising and the 57th episode overall.

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In the City of Temples, the Ninja find guidance from an unlikely source, while Cole, Kai and Frak battle the Hollow Ones in Imperium.[1]

The Ninja explore the Hollowed City of Temples and are lead to an unlikely source of help. Arin and Lloyd gear up for a treacherous journey back to the Spectral Lands, while Cole, Kai and Frak battle the Hollow Ones in Imperium.

Netflix: As they look for clues about Thunderfang's next move, the Ninja enlist the help of an old rival. Cole duels Nokt without a proper Prismatic Blade.

Extended: The Ninja explore the Hollowed City of Temples and are lead to an unlikely source of help. Upon learning of the trials to summon the Arc Dragon of Focus, the Ninja split up in a race against ThunderFang filling the Well of the Lost. Arin and Lloyd gear-up for a treacherous journey back to the Spectral Lands, while Cole, Kai and Frak battle the Spectral Invasion in Imperium.[2]

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  • This is Chris "Doc" Wyatt's favorite episode from Season 3.[3]
  • When Fritz stumbled upon a copy of Boobytraps and How to Survive Them, he remarked on how people seem to frequently misplace the book. This highlights a recurring theme since Master of the Mountain, where various instances of Boobytraps and How to Survive Them have appeared, either left behind or held by different characters.
  • This episode marks the first time Kai has been to the City of Imperium since "The Power Within" and it also marks the first time Cole and Frak have been to the City of Imperium.
    • Additionally, this makes Jay and P.I.X.A.L. the only members of the ninja team to not have visited Imperium yet.
  • The tone to awaken the Arc Dragon of Focus is a variation of the Ninjago Overture.
  • On Netflix, the episode is titled Vault of Focus instead of The Vault of Focus.
  • When told about the spectral invasions, Bleckt explained that he had read about such phenomena where ghosts steal the souls of the living, but he never thought it could be real. It remains unclear whether the type of invasion he encountered in his readings is related to the ghost invasion, in which the Preeminent tried to take over the realms.

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  • Lloyd mentions his vision in "Casket of Bones," where he witnessed the Source Dragons arguing about the possibility of summoning the Arc Dragon of Focus, with the result ending in a deadlock, as three of them (Motion, Energy, and Flow) agreed to summon them and the other three (Strength, Life, and Focus) denied.
  • This episode marks the first time Jay, as he is about to use his powers on the Security Bots, shouts the word "Lightning" in Ninjago: Dragons Rising and the first time in an episode since "Endings".
  • Bleckt and Wyldfyre mention the term "disastrous consequences", similarly to how Master Wu told the original four ninja that incorrectly doing the Tornado of Creation would have disastrous consequences.
  • Roby giving Wyldfyre complete access authority to the Security Bots should he be incapacitated is most likely brought on from his exprience with Kur's Decay.

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  • The opening flashback takes place shortly after Cole meets the Finders. However, Zane's techno-cocoon can be seen even though it isn't supposed to be there in the Land of Lost Things until after the events of the Battle of the Second Monastery where the Monastery of Imperium and most of everything inside of it was destroyed and sent there.
  • It is unknown why Nya confused the Arc Dragon of Focus with the Source Dragon of Focus given that she and Kai had read about them in The Sagas of the Eternal Sources in "Fallen Wishes".
  • The mural in the Vault of Focus depicts the tan half of the Arc Dragon of Focus in Mysterium and the purple half in Djinjago. However, when the two halves are seen in "When Doves Cry," it's the opposite.
  • In this episode when Cole's soul is sucked out, his soul appears to be orange but in "Wishmasters" when he and Lloyd were wished into the Djinn Blade by Clancee, Cole's soul is black instead of orange, It is unknown why Cole's soul was black back then but orange this time. It's possible that what surrounded his soul was the Elemental Power of Earth and that the Djinn Blade absorbed both the body and soul given how Jay was struck by it to enter it in Operation Land Ho! to rescue the ninja team and Misako. It's also possible that the way souls appear when they're taken by either means are different due to the unique tools used.
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Language Name
Chinese (Simplified) 专注神龙宝库
Dutch De Kluis der Concentratie
French Le Caveau de la concentration
German Die Fokus-Gruft
Japanese 神殿の町、地下金庫に眠る秘密
Polish Skarbiec skupienia
Spanish (Latin America) La Bóveda del Enfoque[4]
Spanish (Spain) La Cámara de la Concentración
References

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  1. ↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/lego_ninjago_dragons_rising/s03
  2. ↑ https://www.nowtv.com/watch/ninjago-dragons-rising/iYEQYZfjU8Mz2WENgF78Pw/seasons/3/episodes/the-vault-of-focus-episode-17/A5EK3TJRBXpv6xjyNCSgj
  3. ↑ https://bsky.app/profile/docwyattbeyond.bsky.social/post/3ldm2tegcok2d
  4. ↑ File:DR3NewZeleandVPN2.jpg