I would go with the idea that dragons are, skeletally, not unlike condors or the like: Hollow bones and proportionally huge wings.
Long and ying long are a different matter. The latter have wings of a form, but the former in particular appear to use magnetism or perhaps deposits of exotic matter in their brains to levitate. And given that the earliest origins of the Western dragon lie in the great serpents and amphipteres of Greece and Egypt, which do bear more than a passing resemblance to their East Asian brethren, this being a shared trait is not implausible.
that's because we have fossil footprints which show that at least some of the time they walked on the ground (we don't have footprints like this for most pterosaurs so it's a big deal and gets represented a lot in the art)
nevertheless it was light enough that it presumably could fly, though if it was any bulkier it couldn't; it probably needed a run-up
I would go with the idea that dragons are, skeletally, not unlike condors or the like: Hollow bones and proportionally huge wings.
Long and ying long are a different matter. The latter have wings of a form, but the former in particular appear to use magnetism or perhaps deposits of exotic matter in their brains to levitate. And given that the earliest origins of the Western dragon lie in the great serpents and amphipteres of Greece and Egypt, which do bear more than a passing resemblance to their East Asian brethren, this being a shared trait is not implausible.
Long are explicitly supernatural, though, which isn't always the case with Western dragons.
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Long and ying long are a different matter. The latter have wings of a form, but the former in particular appear to use magnetism or perhaps deposits of exotic matter in their brains to levitate. And given that the earliest origins of the Western dragon lie in the great serpents and amphipteres of Greece and Egypt, which do bear more than a passing resemblance to their East Asian brethren, this being a shared trait is not implausible.
big motherfuckers
even hatzefuck has a huge ass wingspan, dumb litle body, long neck, huge head
so undragony
also a lot of paleoart of them doesn't have them flying. hrm
nevertheless it was light enough that it presumably could fly, though if it was any bulkier it couldn't; it probably needed a run-up
the skull fragments we have are also unusually bulky by pterosaur standards (certainly not bulky like most dragons are depicted as being, though)
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
dragons are alright
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
They did sometimes show up at annoying moments, and i felt the last fight against Alduin was a bit of a let-down.
i think it was pretty alright, i liked the flight bladder doubling as fuel