Remember back in the day when Bethesda was charging a couple of bucks for a horse armor helmet and everyone was mad? The outrage was real, but as Tom pointed out last year, the horse armor helmet won out.

The dragon in question is actually part of Valorant's first ultra-skin set, "Elderflame," which, simply put, transforms a gun (and a knife, apparently) into a cute but kind of grumpy looking dragon. And the price is no joke: there are five levels of skins available on Valorant: select, deluxe, premium, ultra, and exclusive, with the ultra edition skin topping out at 2,475 Valorant points. (3]

VPs are available in bundles ranging from $5 for 475 VPs to $100 for 11,000 VPs. Ultraskins are $25 for one - $5 for 475 VP, plus $20 for 2,050 VP, and as Riot's revenue lead Joe Lee pointed out on Twitter, this is a bundle of four, so the full set is $100.

But wait! There's more! The skins also have "levels," which can be upgraded with another currency called Radianite. This currency can be earned with a Battle Pass (more if you have a Premium Pass) or purchased directly with VP through the in-game store. Upgrading the level of a weapon skin unlocks new effects, animations, finishers, and more. In other words, you can enter for $100, but if you want all the bells and whistles, you may have to pay even more.

The price of a set of weapon skins is pretty wild, especially since a set of weapon skins costs the equivalent of two video game software packages, and to my eyes they look like knockoffs of the Tibetan war cannons in Clive Barker's "Undying". But Valorant is free to play, and the skins are of no benefit: looking at the price of CS:GO skins, Elderflame's price seems to be quite restrained. (We haven't compiled a list for a while, but see our 2017 list.)

The Elderflame skin set will go live on Valorant on July 10.