#Dragon Info

[theload]

Some of my Embodiments, as drawn by my friend Drakontarachne on DA.

In order they are:

Light and Dark

Life and Death

Fear and Rage

Joy, Envy, and Love

Earth and Air

Water and Fire

Embodiments exist outside of reality, and are the personification and source of what they represent. Light is all light. Fear is all fear. etc.

[witchthewriter]

𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏 𝑫𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚

𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐤𝐞

   The mount of Laenor Velaryon, son of Corlys and Rhaenys II. Although Seasmoke was an already established dragon before the birth of Laenor, the Sea-snake’s son adored his dragon. 

   A pale silver-grey in appearance, and the same size as Tessarion. Seasmoke was more of a traditional-looking dragon, like Meleys and Silverwing. He was quite a handsome dragon to gaze upon. With a tepid temper, he was rather easier to train and pleasant to be around. 

   Quite nimble in the sky, Seasmoke wasn’t the most fearsome, but he made up for it with enthusiasm. Like his rider, Seasmoke was pleasant to everyone, yet only deeply cared for a select few. 

   Seasmoke was often seen flying with Meleys and Rhaenys, for the majority of his life. 

𝒈𝒊𝒇 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕: @targaryensource, @drogonthered. 

[abyssal-ilk]

i need everyone to consider vivienne and dorian bonding over taking care of the inquisitor after the end of dragon age inquisition as the mark progressively gets worse and worse. vivienne with her past of watching bastien get sicker and sicker and dorian doing the same with felix, and seeing it repeat with the inquisitor. take my hand 🖐,,

[timethehobo]

Thinking about that concept sketch of the companions around the table again. Emmrich’s fancy posing. 🤭

[nipuni]

A warm up of Solas! Trying to remember how to draw him. It's been forever, bear with me 😵‍💫

[theload]

All the time in mythology, sadly. 😔

Has a worm ever gotten struck by lightning

[theload]

Thinking about Temeraire dragon wings.

And it feels like I've rarely seen art where the wings match what the book says, the first book says that Imperials and Celestials have six wing fingers*, and that European breeds have five.

*Terminology used in the book itself is spine, so in theory one spine could be the arm itself, but that feels like an odd descriptor to me.

[witchthewriter]

hello, i've a qs about the dragons of Aegon II and his siblings. is true that they didn't get a dragon egg? or maybe they did but they never hatched? i always hear different things by people who claim to have read the books so maybe you can enlighten me. thanks

It's true that none of Alicent's children had dragon eggs placed in their cribs, or that they were given dragon eggs throughout their childhood. Aegon II, Helaena, Aemond and Daeron all claimed established dragons.

According to the canon info, Sunfyre hatched on Dragonstone and is older than Tessarion (Daeron's dragon). Although Sunfyre is considered a Fourth Generation dragon, along with Tessarion. Vhagar is Second Generation and Dreamfyre is Third Generation (along with the likes of Caraxes and Meleys - to name only a few.)

Personally, I don't think they were given dragon eggs (ever, at all.) I think it was a way for Alicent's children to be left out, and hypothetically told that they weren't seen as true Targaryens.

[felassan]

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has 700 characters and 80,000 lines of dialogue (140,000 lines including all the Rooks) in it: [link] They started casting the acting talent 5 years ago and have been working on it since.

Edit: According to the wiki, Dragon Age: Inquisition contains 88,000 lines of dialogue (edit 2 - I think this figure including all of the Inquisitors). I think I read somewhere that BG3 has over 500 NPCs?

[theload]

Adding that Daniel Ogden has a third dragon book out:

It goes into how Germanic and Medieval Christian myths influenced the dragon developing from a snake/snake hybrid to what we'd more commonly accept as a Western Dragon, and I'd recommend it as a follow up to the first two (though would suggest reading the first two first, they're not needed but they're a nice framework for the Greek and Classical dragon that this book then builds on).

What's your absolute top reccomendation for books vis a vis dragon folklore, any region, any period, as restricted or comprehensive as you'd like?

Oooh that's a good question!

In general if primary sources are cited, it's tops. I would say the gold standard are Ogden's Drakon: Dragon Myth & Serpent Cult in the Greek & Roman Worlds and Dragons, Serpents, & Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds are great.

[venusmage]

Recent sketch commissions I’ve liked

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[deathberi]

[theload]

A Dragon

Two Lindwurms.

Interesting fact for all the dracoprescitivists out there: While in British heraldry, a four-legged dragon is called a dragon and a two-legged dragon is called a wyvern (we all know that one), in German heraldry, the two-legged variety is called "Drache" i.e. "dragon", while the four-legged variant is called "Lindwurm". Regardless of any serpentine form of the body or number of wings.

So we should always keep in mind that any classification system that anybody might use for mythical creatures is highly culturally specific, sometimes even more specific than that, and should only be used in a general sense when your readers are aware what you are talking about.

[sadwolftears]

Sketch finally finished, a decent reference for my Lavellan Time to start drawing my Fen'an with other Lavellans and more Solavellan drawings commisions open btw

https://ko-fi.com/donquixotte/commissions

[timethehobo]

Just some lil fellas cos I wanted to try the other companions too!