Post by Razgat on Aug 14, 2010 11:57:18 GMT -5
Faerie Dragons
Faerie dragons are thought to be among the smallest of all dragons. Many people believe that they are related to butterflies, as they usually have butterfly-shaped wings. Most of the faerie dragons consort with the faeries, and they seldom to never eat meat.
They are also considered to have many bug-like qualities with them. They are often depicted with antennas, for instance. Also, most people see them as mini-Western style dragons. However, there has been an occasion when a wyvern type faerie dragon has appeared.
These dragons are unaccessible because they are a lot like our butterflies and are too small. They are adorable, though.
Sea Serpents
These creatures live in the waters. They can live in fresh or salt water. They are depicted as long, serpent-snakes usually without limbs but with long, steering tails. Other types include finned as well as serpents with webbed limbs. Some are depicted with wings, but they tend to be useless in the water.
Fear of these creatures was rampant during the 1400s, when man was attempting to reach India. Many people believe that man was afraid of "falling off of the world" because man believed the earth was flat. However, the fear of the sea serpents was much more prominent. If there was ever a place with uncharted waters, the map would be marked "HERE BE DRAGONS".8
These dragons cannot really be accessible because they cannot walk on land. There are tame serpents and wild ones. The wild ones will attack ships and people in the water. The tame ones will often work as trasport or dive in the water to retrieve things.
Wyrm
These dragons are completely limbless, leaving no legs nor wings for them. However, they are usually huge serpentile creatures with thick bodies.
Most portrayals of these creatures hold a snake-like head and body type. However, many have begun portraying them with wedge-shaped heads. (This is the same thing as Western Dragons.) They also have hard, protective scales as well as rigid underbellies.
These dragons are accessible. They cannot fly, but they are extremely swift. They are often in the army.
Wyverns
Wyvern look much like birds. They have two legs and a pair of wings. Sometimes these wings are depicted as "hands", such that they can claps each other when the wings are folded.
Wyverns are usually small and have wedge-shaped heads, but are sometimes depicted with smaller, more rounded heads. In addition to a beak-like jaw, which would be necessarily for the wyvern to carry food, the wyvern might also have a stinger tail. Rather, a tail with a poison sting at the end of it.
Finding wyverns in history is harder then it appears. It seems as if they have been adapted from their cousins the Western Dragons. They are depicted on shields, banners, and coats of arms for quite some time. They are a sign of strength, power, and endurance.
These dragons are accessible and are often used in the army for their strength.
Tatzelworm
Tatzelworms are small dragons recorded in Switzerland and Austrich. They have a head like a cat on a long serpentine body (1.2-1.5 m) with two small arms.
They were able to leap at great distance.
These dragons aren't really accessible. They're just meant as pets.
Cockatrice
Its reputed magical abilities include turning people to stone or killing them by either looking at them — "the death-darting eye of Cockatrice"[6] — touching them, or sometimes breathing on them.
It was repeated in the late-medieval bestiaries that the weasel is the only animal that is immune to the glance of a cockatrice. It was also thought that a cockatrice would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow. According to legend having a cockatrice look itself in a mirror is one of the few sure-fire ways to kill it. The cockatrice was also able to fly with the set of wings affixed to its back.
Like the head of Medusa, the cockatrice's powers of petrification were thought still effective after death.
This dragon is obviously not accessible. These dragons like surprise attacks and hide under piles of pinecones. This dragon is pure evil.
Faerie dragons are thought to be among the smallest of all dragons. Many people believe that they are related to butterflies, as they usually have butterfly-shaped wings. Most of the faerie dragons consort with the faeries, and they seldom to never eat meat.
They are also considered to have many bug-like qualities with them. They are often depicted with antennas, for instance. Also, most people see them as mini-Western style dragons. However, there has been an occasion when a wyvern type faerie dragon has appeared.
These dragons are unaccessible because they are a lot like our butterflies and are too small. They are adorable, though.
Sea Serpents
These creatures live in the waters. They can live in fresh or salt water. They are depicted as long, serpent-snakes usually without limbs but with long, steering tails. Other types include finned as well as serpents with webbed limbs. Some are depicted with wings, but they tend to be useless in the water.
Fear of these creatures was rampant during the 1400s, when man was attempting to reach India. Many people believe that man was afraid of "falling off of the world" because man believed the earth was flat. However, the fear of the sea serpents was much more prominent. If there was ever a place with uncharted waters, the map would be marked "HERE BE DRAGONS".8
These dragons cannot really be accessible because they cannot walk on land. There are tame serpents and wild ones. The wild ones will attack ships and people in the water. The tame ones will often work as trasport or dive in the water to retrieve things.
Wyrm
These dragons are completely limbless, leaving no legs nor wings for them. However, they are usually huge serpentile creatures with thick bodies.
Most portrayals of these creatures hold a snake-like head and body type. However, many have begun portraying them with wedge-shaped heads. (This is the same thing as Western Dragons.) They also have hard, protective scales as well as rigid underbellies.
These dragons are accessible. They cannot fly, but they are extremely swift. They are often in the army.
Wyverns
Wyvern look much like birds. They have two legs and a pair of wings. Sometimes these wings are depicted as "hands", such that they can claps each other when the wings are folded.
Wyverns are usually small and have wedge-shaped heads, but are sometimes depicted with smaller, more rounded heads. In addition to a beak-like jaw, which would be necessarily for the wyvern to carry food, the wyvern might also have a stinger tail. Rather, a tail with a poison sting at the end of it.
Finding wyverns in history is harder then it appears. It seems as if they have been adapted from their cousins the Western Dragons. They are depicted on shields, banners, and coats of arms for quite some time. They are a sign of strength, power, and endurance.
These dragons are accessible and are often used in the army for their strength.
Tatzelworm
Tatzelworms are small dragons recorded in Switzerland and Austrich. They have a head like a cat on a long serpentine body (1.2-1.5 m) with two small arms.
They were able to leap at great distance.
These dragons aren't really accessible. They're just meant as pets.
Cockatrice
Its reputed magical abilities include turning people to stone or killing them by either looking at them — "the death-darting eye of Cockatrice"[6] — touching them, or sometimes breathing on them.
It was repeated in the late-medieval bestiaries that the weasel is the only animal that is immune to the glance of a cockatrice. It was also thought that a cockatrice would die instantly upon hearing a rooster crow. According to legend having a cockatrice look itself in a mirror is one of the few sure-fire ways to kill it. The cockatrice was also able to fly with the set of wings affixed to its back.
Like the head of Medusa, the cockatrice's powers of petrification were thought still effective after death.
This dragon is obviously not accessible. These dragons like surprise attacks and hide under piles of pinecones. This dragon is pure evil.