forum Know your kinds of dragons!!!
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@nekh

that's why monster hunter is great because almost everything is some kind of wyvern, but then a kirin is classified as an elder dragon

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Best Movie/Book Dragons

Toothless
Saphira
Smaug

I would love to hear your vote on which is the best!

Ashlee Seaton

This is kind of a weird question but which dragon would you say would be a great mentor/teacher but is also a hella good flyer.

@Wyvern

I don't know, but I can picture a hydra being the scary math teacher and wyverns being the cool teacher but also kind of suspicious or something, like secretly teaching kids how to kill someone when they should be teaching them 2+2

@Reblod flag

That thing about dragons in popular fantasy movies isn't true. Those are definitely dragons. Why? Because they said they are. Besides, personally I prefer to either draw dragons with four legs and no wings or with two legs and two wings. Six limbs don't look good in a movie or on screen. Imagine what it would look like, you wouldn't know what was going on because of all the limbs everywhere especially because movies like The Hobbit, Harry Potter and even the show Game of Thrones has a lot going on. It's the same with art. If you can't draw six limbs without making it look noisy and messy, then don't.

Lekim_hajile

There are basically different types of dragons for different cultures. The Irish have some epic lookin' dragons, the Egyptians had some, all types of cultures usually have dragons different than other cultures. And Smaug is really just a wyvern, but a wyvern is a species in the family of dragons. The same for other types.

@Dragon_Rider24

My fav Movie/Book dragon is Saphira. I LOOOOVED the Inheritance series and I absolutely adore Saphira and Eragon's partnership. They grow so much together and their friendship really develops such that they miss each other terribly when they're apart. It's so beautiful.

@Yamatsu

If my main character is half-human, half-dragon, would there be a special name for it like Dragonborn (I keep thinking Skyrim), or would it just be Half-Dragon?

MissMistake

By half human, do you mean an anthro where they are both at the same time/have dragon characteristics as a human? Or do you mean a human that can shift into a dragon/vise versa?

Because, in either situation, you can really just come up with a name – It's your character, after all! :)'

For example, my whole story revolves around dragons. There's a certain species that's below a God, but not a demigod or mortal. When you can't come up with a name in that kind of in-between situation, you can get creative! Since my in-between species is all about mastering one special ability for their immortal lives to the point of godhood over it, I picked out some roots for "specialist" and "power" to find a sick name like Dynalis!

Try it, it's fun! I suggest looking up some related terms in greek & Latin roots/the power thesaurus for some ideas :)

And if you don't wanna do that, I'm pretty sure half-dragon works just fine! If it's the "switching" situation, maybe Weredragon – if it's a mix, maybe Demidragon. It's really just up to what you feel like calling it imo~