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Shaprite
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 Posted: Thu 01 Oct 2009 17:57 Post subject: Dragon Strenght |
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Dragons sometimes have been portrayed to be very strong. Are they very strong?
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Jasriella
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Well I would assume that they have to be if their going to be flying half ton lizards. Gotta have some sort of strength in them shoulder muscles to be hauling that bulk around.
Besides that think about this, predatory animals are designed to kill. Dragons are no exception. Now depending on a creature's preferred prey, you'd assume again that they'd be stronger than their prey. The exception would be pack animals like wolves and lions where they work as a team to bring there prey down.
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Well said Galadreil.
You have to ask if they're strong. Just look at one in most pictures, statues or whatever all of them had arms the size of maple trees, not to mention they're supposed to be as big as any dino we can think of. So I would imagine any thing that big would be a force to recon with. Heck even the hatchlings of a dragon look like they''d have no trouble taking one there size.
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Shiari
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| The shinoar were decently strong. However, our arms were fairly puny due to being badly positioned, but not badly enough to be evolved away. |
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Shadow Viper
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| Posted: Thu 12 Nov 2009 22:59 Post subject: |
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| Galadreil wrote: |
Well I would assume that they have to be if their going to be flying half ton lizards. Gotta have some sort of strength in them shoulder muscles to be hauling that bulk around.
Besides that think about this, predatory animals are designed to kill. Dragons are no exception. Now depending on a creature's preferred prey, you'd assume again that they'd be stronger than their prey. The exception would be pack animals like wolves and lions where they work as a team to bring there prey down. |
but also you must remember that some dragons aren't "flying half ton lizards" some are no bigger that the length of your arm, and when they lack strength, they almost always make up for it in brains |
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Jasriella
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| Posted: Fri 13 Nov 2009 5:42 Post subject: |
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| Galadreil wrote: |
Well I would assume that they have to be if their going to be flying half ton lizards. Gotta have some sort of strength in them shoulder muscles to be hauling that bulk around.
Besides that think about this, predatory animals are designed to kill. Dragons are no exception. Now depending on a creature's preferred prey, you'd assume again that they'd be stronger than their prey. The exception would be pack animals like wolves and lions where they work as a team to bring there prey down. |
but also you must remember that some dragons aren't "flying half ton lizards" some are no bigger that the length of your arm, and when they lack strength, they almost always make up for it in brains |
That's a general assumption for any life forms in general where they're the smaller species. And it isn't necessarily brains but perhaps a toxin or something that makes them more dangerous to other creatures larger that might think of making it dinner.
Though in my opinion a dragon is not a dragon if it can't fly. At the most it's a drake, and in all reality a lizard.
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Aaromus
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| Posted: Fri 13 Nov 2009 11:59 Post subject: |
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| Galadreil wrote: |
Though in my opinion a dragon is not a dragon if it can't fly. At the most it's a drake, and in all reality a lizard. |
I agree there.
So, if we've establish most large-size dragons are indeed rather strong, then the question is exactly how strong do you estimate a dragon is? Strong enough to lift a car? Demolish a house? Throw a boulder? ..etc. |
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Shadow Viper
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I've seen dragons lift horses with ease, throw punches that break boulders, clearly dragons have strength
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