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Dragons club

Starling

Pro Adventurer
First off, this thread was inspired by Flare and is all about dragons. Their roles in myths, the inspiration behind their varied appearance, which ones are your favourites, etc. To start off, I'd like to know what everyone's favourite dragons are in general media, be it a show, book, game or whatever. Just so you know, this includes things similar to dragons such as wyverns and giant serpents, who often feature similar traits.

Since I prefer the European style of dragon but with intelligence, I liked the dragons in Eragon, especially Saphira. Another dragon I like is the one from Spirited Away.

One thing I find interesting about dragons is that they're largely inspired by dinosaur fossils people found before they really understood what the complete skeleton would look like. From there, the details of their appearance and what they represented largely varied from one culture to another.

Feel free to post any images or artwork of dragons you think look interesting and remember that I'm using the term dragon quite broadly and loosely.
 

Ite

Save your valediction (she/her)
AKA
Ite
I'm in! Love me some dragons.

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Joe

I KEEP MY IDEALS
AKA
Joe, Arcana
There are loads of awesome dragons but I gotta start off with
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So fucking majestic.
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
my 3 favourite dragons

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that last one is concept art, in the final film he didn't have front legs but claws on his wings.
 

Flare

Pro Adventurer
AKA
Flare
my 3 favourite dragons

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*GASP*
Octo what is this first dragon picture of?!?! It looks so happy I love it! :awesome: <3 And I do love the four-legged Smaug concept art. I wouldn't have minded him looking that way either in the movies.

Thanks for making this club Starling, I never got around to it. :properhug:

As for a few of my favorite dragon pictures...
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I'm not sure if I actually have a favorite dragon type/design. I was going to say more of the European style dragon, but in all honesty I just love seeing unique dragons designs and, even more, when they're varied!

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Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
Flare, you don't know Flammie? Secret of Mana?! Get yourself a SNES emulator right now young lady!

edit: Honorable mention for this guy

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Flare

Pro Adventurer
AKA
Flare
Oooh from the Mana series! I played Children of Mana a long time ago and I forgot all about Flammie!

He's sooo cute <3
 

Joe

I KEEP MY IDEALS
AKA
Joe, Arcana
edit: Honorable mention for this guy

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Omg Octo you totally ninja'd my post. I just got home and was gonna post a picture of that Colossus.

It's still one of the best damn boss battles out there too.
 

Octo

KULT OF KERMITU
AKA
Octo, Octorawk, Clarky Cat, Kissmammal2000
I wasn't sure if he counted cos hes like er...made of rock and looks sort of like a giant insect...thing.

But I need to dig out SotC right now.
 

Starling

Pro Adventurer
I did say this thread was pretty loose about what constitutes a dragon. Not to mention that creatures similar to dragons, such as hydras and wyverns are fair game. In old myths, the term wyrm referred to traditional European dragons, wyverns and serpents interchangeably, meaning stuff like
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all qualify. Along with giant worms, those are all pretty classic depictions of variations of dragons and other fearsome serpentine and/or reptilian creatures as seen in European myths. In Asian myths, you mostly have water dragons, thunder dragons and the kirin/qilin, as seen
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Kirin aren't always depicted with dragonic features though so the stuff where they look like fancy unicorns would be better suited to a general mythology thread. The images I used as examples also depart from classic depictions somewhat.

Flare already posted a few examples of non-traditional dragon designs that look quite different from what we'd normally call dragons and they qualify too. Incidentally, hydras have been depicted as both dragons and serpents with multiple heads and nidhogg has also been referred to as both but is more often considered a dragon. The tendency to blend the traits of existing animals into depictions of dragons is also something that's been going on from the very beginning, such as Chinese dragons having faces much like their artistic depictions of lions. It really is just easier to treat it like one big melting pot of dragonic goodness. Now here's a deep sea dragon:

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Kuja9001

Ooooh Salty!
AKA
roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
Does dragon armor count?

The armor is made from a living dragon(who is still alive even after being broken down into a weapon).

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Starling

Pro Adventurer
It's a bit of a stretch but the dragon is still alive. I suppose it's better than say, a sword that used to be a dragon, which is a sword, not a dragon. I don't really get why they'd do that to a dragon though. If you could find some good armoured dragons such as
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that'd be cool too. I found
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while getting the other image. If you don't have images or don't feel like posting any, you can also just talk about dragons and what you like about them.
 

Kuja9001

Ooooh Salty!
AKA
roxas9001, Krat0s9001, DarkSlayerZero
Does dragon armor count?

The armor is made from a living dragon(who is still alive even after being broken down into a weapon).

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This is a continuation of the above post.

Every time he wears the armor he slowly begins to become the dragon.

Initial fusion caused this - http://img.mangastream.com/cdn/manga/98/2699/009.png

First use caused this - http://img.mangastream.com/cdn/manga/98/2878/006.png

Second usage - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I5Ys9wt0kcU/Voq0Sd16l-I/AAAAAAACbxA/gzch3V9BhUs/s16000-Ic42/050.jpg, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i6BmCskRHuQ/Voq0Sg5qwPI/AAAAAAACbxA/0T__58M5XZ4/s16000-Ic42/052.jpg

Current - http://66.media.tumblr.com/f6f84202b02a0ed6229df18adf446e8a/tumblr_o6iwr523ob1rd83duo1_1280.png
 

ForceStealer

Double Growth
I've always found it interesting how many different cultures seemingly independently had myths about dragons, even if they differed in a appearance somewhat.

edit: Honorable mention for this guy

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I never really thought of him as a dragon. But he's one of my favorite colossi, so I'll allow it.

Also guys, I've noticed a distinct lack of the



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Marcus

Consumed By Darkness
So this is a Thread I can get behind. Dragons are my favorite mythical creature. I just love them.

Igneel from Fairy Tai
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Draco from Dragonheart
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Shenron from DBZ
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Hungarian Horntail from Harrypotter
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My current wallpaper
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I'd post ALOT more but I think this is enough for now.
 

trash panda

---m(O.O)gle---
AKA
Howl
Oooo dragon thrad.
My favorite type of dragon is the...er...
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I'm not sure what else it's called. The four legged, winged variety. :monster:

And of course I have to mention one of my favorite dragon characters,
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. Some smartass called him Ken in this playthrough I guess. :lol:
 
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