S'up everybody! I'm now starting a series on different types of dragons, but first I need to tell you something, there won't be any artwork until I get the time and I'll soon make a gallery.
Dragons are one of the most interesting creatures and extremely famous. In almost every culture there is some form of a flying reptile. What inspired these myths? Was it dinosaurs? Something different or what? I'm going to tell you all I know. First let's start with european dragons.
European Dragons:
European dragons are mostly the main envisioning of a dragon. Everything from St. George to the classic "princess stuck in a tower with dragon" stories. Wyverns are the most common and are the English version of dragons. A wyvern has two wings and two legs, the rest is a scale covered, gruesome, man eating, fire breathing monster. It usually captures princesses and steals gold. In Germany it's different. They're called lindworms (dragons), they are the same as wyverns, but with no legs or sometimes two (just like wyverns). Welsh dragons are interesting (in welsh mythology), the white dragons symbolize the Saxons and red dragons symbolize the Welsh. There is a legend King Vortigern (the Welsh king) witnessing the red dragon defeating the white dragon. There are many other myths and legends about dragons, but that be a whole book. Next, Asia
So WHERE do you learn this stuff??!! Pretty interesting, really.
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