Are they any other styles of dragons

Hyraxylos · Posted: Mon 17 Sep 2007 7:45 Post subject:

Bah. The apes who put those creatures onto the above list think that all reptiles look alike.
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QueenOfTheShadows · Posted: Wed 19 Sep 2007 8:18 Post subject:

Agreed in mythology the baskilisk was much more than just a large serpent, if I recall corectly a baskilisk was born from a rooster's egg, that was incubated by a toad. It lived in the desert, not because that was it's habitat... but because it was a completly foul beast of entierly magical origin. It's gaze slew every thing that it fell upon and some stories say it produced a horrible stenche as well, a stench feirce enough to kill you on top of its deadly gaze. Hence nothinh could live in a region inhabited by a basklisk. the only way to destroy it was to advance with in eyeshot of the beast while hiding behing a mirrored surface, and like nearly every other beast in myth and legend (baskilsk, cocktrice, Medusa, the manticore exct...) that had a poisonious/ petrifying/ or hypnotic gaze it would slay or in some cases hypntize itself by looking in the mirror. it was a creature that could never be looked upn withough risking death.

Where as the coctrice, has many mopre varients it was said to have the body of a serpent, the head of a rooster, a roosters legs... and it, once more f memory sreves me right some stories had thar it wore several crowns. some varients give it small feathered wings or even feathers that fan out along either sidt of its serpents tail. it too produces what i suppose is a gaze-of-Doom Very Happy

. it is also defeated through the use of a mirror, but it is not so entierly toxic to everything around it.
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starwing · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008 8:14 Post subject:

Can I add Hydra to Celtore's list?

Dragoneyes · Posted: Sat 02 Feb 2008 21:16 Post subject:

I have a question where do European dragons fit into this and by what names are they called?
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Ragnarok · Posted: Sat 02 Feb 2008 22:37 Post subject:

It depends on what you mean by "European" dragon. Drakes, wyrms, traditional westerns, wyverns, basilisks, cockatrices, and many others all can fall into that category, since myths involving them both originate and/or come from Europe.
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Dragoneyes · Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2008 7:38 Post subject:

I see many colorful names, But what I am refering to is a dragon that has wings, arms and legs and is not quite as large as a Wyvern.
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starwing · Posted: Mon 04 Feb 2008 8:28 Post subject:

That's a traditional western, isn't it?

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