Yes, and you call them 'Great Dragons' despite the fact they are obviously horse-sized.
(I needed a specific term for them in my setting, but 'western' dragon wouldn't make sense since they're not exclusive to 'the west').
Decided to make a reference sheet for the dragons in my setting to settle on some of their physical traits, and mainly show them in both a quadrupedal and bipedal stance.
Some random yapping that doesn't matter:
- They reach physical maturity at around 12 years of age, and mental maturity (equivalent to an 18-year-old human) at 15. They can live for upwards of 200 years, but with only access to pre-modern medicine, the eldest dragons are much more likely to be in the range of 100-150.
- They are hypercarnivores, requiring about 3/4ths of their diet to be meat. They *can* eat most foods that humans can, but don't receive the same nutrients from all of them. Dragons tend to season their meat in a similar way to how humans do.
- They have a bunch of traits that do not make sense from a normal evolutionary standpoint - being six-limbed, having slit pupils despite not being small ambush predators, etc. - this is because they *didn't* evolve, but I won't give away what created them. Species that do not seem to have evolved naturally in this setting are called 'chimeras', which includes dragons, gryphons, and a few other species.
- Though resource conflicts (namely food, because dragons need to eat *a lot* of meat) would seem likely to bring dragons into conflict with other species (such as humans), they benefit far more from cooperation. Dragons are a decisive factor in wars, taking the role of both aerial support and super-heavy cavalry in a period before artificial flight. Hence any society that flatly refused to cooperate with dragons (or at least with another species of 'chimera') would have long since been subjugated by one that did. In return, the dragons are provided with food, weapons, and armour that they would struggle to make on their own, given their lower populations and less dexterous hands.
- They struggle to make bilabial consonants (b, p, m), so they'd sound somewhat weird speaking most human languages. Conversely, dragon languages often contain clicks, rumbles, and trills that humans would struggle to make.
(I needed a specific term for them in my setting, but 'western' dragon wouldn't make sense since they're not exclusive to 'the west').
Decided to make a reference sheet for the dragons in my setting to settle on some of their physical traits, and mainly show them in both a quadrupedal and bipedal stance.
Some random yapping that doesn't matter:
- They reach physical maturity at around 12 years of age, and mental maturity (equivalent to an 18-year-old human) at 15. They can live for upwards of 200 years, but with only access to pre-modern medicine, the eldest dragons are much more likely to be in the range of 100-150.
- They are hypercarnivores, requiring about 3/4ths of their diet to be meat. They *can* eat most foods that humans can, but don't receive the same nutrients from all of them. Dragons tend to season their meat in a similar way to how humans do.
- They have a bunch of traits that do not make sense from a normal evolutionary standpoint - being six-limbed, having slit pupils despite not being small ambush predators, etc. - this is because they *didn't* evolve, but I won't give away what created them. Species that do not seem to have evolved naturally in this setting are called 'chimeras', which includes dragons, gryphons, and a few other species.
- Though resource conflicts (namely food, because dragons need to eat *a lot* of meat) would seem likely to bring dragons into conflict with other species (such as humans), they benefit far more from cooperation. Dragons are a decisive factor in wars, taking the role of both aerial support and super-heavy cavalry in a period before artificial flight. Hence any society that flatly refused to cooperate with dragons (or at least with another species of 'chimera') would have long since been subjugated by one that did. In return, the dragons are provided with food, weapons, and armour that they would struggle to make on their own, given their lower populations and less dexterous hands.
- They struggle to make bilabial consonants (b, p, m), so they'd sound somewhat weird speaking most human languages. Conversely, dragon languages often contain clicks, rumbles, and trills that humans would struggle to make.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Western Dragon
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