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No. Recall the opening scene, from before you create your character. It is countless lifetimes ago, according to the captioning. In it, you are playing Savan as he goes to meet whomever was dragon in his time. Though you only take him as far as the chimera, he presumably goes on to defeat that dragon and then the seneschal of that time to become seneschal himself.
In between that time and your time, there are at least 2 other Arisen who defeat the dragon who called them but fail to defeat the seneschal, Savan.
The first of these has her tale told in the story of BBI and Daimon - she was the Arisen who took in Daimon as a child. She later leaves him to go face the dragon and Daimon doesn't see her until years later, when she comes back as a dragon herself and claims his heart, making him an Arisen. That is because she defeated her dragon but was then in turn defeated by Savan. Daimon, being a childish dolt, refuses to fight her and throws a tantrum, cursing all existence, so she takes that tantrum as his choice, turns him into the monster form and places him on Bitterblack Isle, claiming the life of his love (her own former pawn) as the price of the deal.
The other is of course Grigori himself. We don't know if Grigori defeated her or someone else did and Grigori came along much later. There may have been others, perhaps many others, but these are the only two we are told about.
The dragon's voice is similar to Grigori's, true, but that is just matter of only having hired two voice actors to play dragons, one male and one female (in Dark Arisen content). Listen to the drake or any other dragonkin - all the same voice actor.
He just walked away, and in doing so he gets the immortality of the Arisen without any of the price tags like having to make a deadly choice for the dragon, having to fight the dragon, having his immortality taken away when another Arisen defeats the dragon....none of it. He gets off scot-free with immortality as his "consolation prize" by simply saying, "Nope. Not playing, thanks. Keep my heart, do; and thanks for the immortality."
Spoiler example: The Dragonforged and Duke Edmun are proof enough of this, they were both tied to Grigori, and their immortality is shown leaving them after you kill the scaly beast, with fairly impressive results.
Barroch himself is living proof that this is not the case, as he survives the death of Grigori unchanged.
Presumably it is because he never struck a deal with the dragon, as the Dragonforged and Duke both did. In fact, for all we know it may not even be Grigori who took his heart in the first place but rather an earlier dragon, since we have no way of knowing how old he is or even how long he has been on Bitterblack Isle. All we can know for sure is that Barroch is older than the Duke, since the Duke was the Arisen during the cycle immediately prior to the current one. That means Barroch had to have been made Arisen during a previous cycle. So if he were not immune, then would have either died like the Dragonforged or at least aged to a much more wizened form than the Duke, once Grigori died at the end of the Final Battle quest.
And since the only way new dragons come to be is by having defeated the one before them, then there is zero chance that Barroch survived because his heart just happens to be in some prior dragon. All those prior dragons are already dead when the story begins.
japanese are quite fond of giving russian names to european Characters
Plus, pawns clearly have uses outside of combat and adventuring that the game just plain doesn't talk about. I mean... look at how they're DRESSED. We may not have game mechanics for that particular aspect of things, but it's pretty obvious what an awful lot of Arisen would be doing with them.
Just a tiny bit of nitpicking of what was otherwise a good analysis. This bit here doesn't necessarily follow. It isn't the death of Grette that breaks his curse. It's the death of Daimon. Grette may have died centuries ago for all we know, but as long as Daimon remained undefeated, Ashe would remain trapped. In like manner Grette was trapped in her dragon form, hoping an Arisen would free her. It's why she chose Ashe as her first Arisen after becoming a dragon after all, because she hoped he would mercifully kill her to free her from that fate. But whether she was later freed or not would not, I think, have freed Ashe, once he became enslaved within Daimon. If that were the way of it, then DragonGrette should have been the final boss you had to defeat in order to free Ashe, not Daimon.
On another note, it is interesting to speculate on whether there is one Dragon for all worlds, just as there is one Seneschal...or if the Seneschal maintains a separate Dragon for each world. The way a hole in the sky opens and the Dragon kind of falls out of a void into the sky of Gransys implies it is perhaps one Dragon for all worlds. And when an Arisen cuts a deal, like Duke Edmun Dragonstool did, perhaps the Dragon just pops off to another world to pick another Arisen and try again to find one with the will to fight and win, hence the 50 year gap before anyone in this world hears anything about the Dragon again. If that is the case, then perhaps the cycle is truly broken, or at least stalled, when the player stabs himself with the Godsbane right after offing the previous Seneschal with it.
Or perhaps, if there is a separate Dragon for every world, then that was merely a dodge and didn't ultimately break the cycle at all, since other Dragon's are out there still choosing Arisen on other worlds. The next one to defeat his world's Dragon would presumably just walk in unopposed as the next Seneschal. Boy will he or she be confused for a while, with nobody to explain their new job description.