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Not really a story, but it's more of an essay than a journal entry.
Category Story / Fantasy
Species Dragon (Other)
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I think that is an interesting way of looking at it.
For me Dragons mean power and authority, but they can't be invincible or overpowered. They can't be gods, because to me that is a waste of thier potential. To be a god is actualy quite limmiting in a story, it can make things dull or repetitive.
In the story I am writing dragons are being integrated into modern society, they where there all along, but up untill my world's equivelent of WW1 they didn't work with humans often. They have thier own society, culture, and laws, and many of thier modern day laws involve interaction with humans.
I designed my dragons from the ground up, They are western style, but look nothing like the stereotypical western dragons of fantacy. I've given them somewhat more usefull body shapes so they can interact with each other and objects in a bit more of a human like way, but they still retain the animal like behaviour to some level. They have the brain capacity of anywhere from the dumbest human all the way to the smartest, but are generaly smarter on average than the average joe.
They don't build anything for thier own because they don't need to, but they help with construction, emergency services and policing humans and dragons alike. Humans don't treat them as animals, but as another sapient species, they treat them as people.
I went with dragons because they are almost always limmited in fantacy, they rarely get used to thier full potential. I haven't read many books that have a dragon character that works, that is more than a brain or brutal savage, or both.
Why not flying monkeys? Because they are loud, annoying and eat all the bananas.
Seriously though, You just can't take an existing animal as far as you can take a dragon or other fantacy creature. A flying monkey would be cool if it could talk and/or be usefull somehow, but then it would just be a big ugly fairy realy.
For me Dragons mean power and authority, but they can't be invincible or overpowered. They can't be gods, because to me that is a waste of thier potential. To be a god is actualy quite limmiting in a story, it can make things dull or repetitive.
In the story I am writing dragons are being integrated into modern society, they where there all along, but up untill my world's equivelent of WW1 they didn't work with humans often. They have thier own society, culture, and laws, and many of thier modern day laws involve interaction with humans.
I designed my dragons from the ground up, They are western style, but look nothing like the stereotypical western dragons of fantacy. I've given them somewhat more usefull body shapes so they can interact with each other and objects in a bit more of a human like way, but they still retain the animal like behaviour to some level. They have the brain capacity of anywhere from the dumbest human all the way to the smartest, but are generaly smarter on average than the average joe.
They don't build anything for thier own because they don't need to, but they help with construction, emergency services and policing humans and dragons alike. Humans don't treat them as animals, but as another sapient species, they treat them as people.
I went with dragons because they are almost always limmited in fantacy, they rarely get used to thier full potential. I haven't read many books that have a dragon character that works, that is more than a brain or brutal savage, or both.
Why not flying monkeys? Because they are loud, annoying and eat all the bananas.
Seriously though, You just can't take an existing animal as far as you can take a dragon or other fantacy creature. A flying monkey would be cool if it could talk and/or be usefull somehow, but then it would just be a big ugly fairy realy.
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