Hail Friends, this is Drakai of the House of Nidhogg, and today we'll be looking at the western dragon.
The western dragon is a four-legged reptile with a long, sometimes spiny, tail and a long neck with a large horned head at the end. Oh, it also had wings.
First, time for some history: the dragon is a mythological being in almost all Europe throughout the ages. Greek, Welsh, Norse, Slavic... they all had them. Later, under Christianity, dragons were, for some inconceivable reason, seen as 'evil', and 'antagonistic'.
For the life of me I cannot fathom why.
One possible explanation was greed, though. Since Christians are very well acquainted with that particular sin. Namely, the dragon was said to be hoarding a vast pile of treasure in its cave, sleeping on it. And all that treasure was just waiting for the brave and skilled knight to take after slaying the foul b-
Wow, I can't even write it.
As for its anatomy, the dragon was a reptile (more or less), and thus covered in scales of varying color, from black to white and all the colors of the spectrum in between. The scales were often described as 'invincible' or 'impenetrable'. Almost like a diamond.
It was also big. There were reports of dragons growing so much they could be confused for a small mountain range. Provided nobody looks too closely. And they don't move all that much.
Then there were the wings. Leather or feather didn't matter much but they were large. They had to be to lift all that mass of muscle, diamond-hard scales and knightly bits inside the stomach. We could also make a leap and say their bones were hollow, like a birds, in order to reduce weight at least a little bit.
The most common weapon of the dragon, apart from its claw-tooth combo, was the flame it shot out of its mouth. Maybe there was some kind of flammable gas inside a special organ only a dragon has that combusted on contact with the air, or maybe there was a special part of the mouth which actually set it alight.
Or maybe it was none of that. There's really no point in rationalizing a dragon. It simply cannot be done. So instead of try, I'm going to let you in on a little secret regarding them.
It was magic. Obviously.
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