So, dragons. @Dawnscroll I have been thinking about them since the day I posted their CS. How I'll go about making them, introducing and developing them. One of the first things I thought about was: breeds. Dragon breeds are a big part of draconic fantasy fiction. At first, I had thought about just directly creating them with whatever form I saw fit...
But I realised that If I did that, I would be greatly limiting their potential as a race. So I scrapped that thought. Then I thought, Hey. I can have it like this. Make a certain amount of dragons - the 'proto-dragons' if you may - then put them inside eggs and fling them into different areas around Cygnea. I set this as the base for their creation. After that, I thought about what I wanted to do with dragon breeds. But that posed a problem as I specifically wanted dragons to be "natural" beasts, that is to contain Slough's natural print, and not be like Pronobii or Hain who are not natural. So I came up with the whole lizard-to-dragon idea...
So the problem now is how to go about introducing dragons. Should they all hatch as one generic, 'proto-species' of Dov and then slowly evolve as they absorb the essence of their surroundings and become whatever dragon breed? Or should I have the dragons absorb the essence whilst being inside the eggs and then have them all hatch as completely different dragons from the get go?
And then there is the problem of their numbers but I guess, once a god gets hold of one dragon and examines it, they would be able to replicate them to some extent but not entirely since they would have to have their blueprint and also know the dragon script so as to decipher it. And ICly, Ull is the only one possessing said knowledge.
These questions have been on my mind for a while and tbh, I still have yet to decide on one.
One thing I know though is that I don't want to limit you all if you want to use dragons in your plots.
So, a penny for your thoughts?
But I realised that If I did that, I would be greatly limiting their potential as a race. So I scrapped that thought. Then I thought, Hey. I can have it like this. Make a certain amount of dragons - the 'proto-dragons' if you may - then put them inside eggs and fling them into different areas around Cygnea. I set this as the base for their creation. After that, I thought about what I wanted to do with dragon breeds. But that posed a problem as I specifically wanted dragons to be "natural" beasts, that is to contain Slough's natural print, and not be like Pronobii or Hain who are not natural. So I came up with the whole lizard-to-dragon idea...
So the problem now is how to go about introducing dragons. Should they all hatch as one generic, 'proto-species' of Dov and then slowly evolve as they absorb the essence of their surroundings and become whatever dragon breed? Or should I have the dragons absorb the essence whilst being inside the eggs and then have them all hatch as completely different dragons from the get go?
And then there is the problem of their numbers but I guess, once a god gets hold of one dragon and examines it, they would be able to replicate them to some extent but not entirely since they would have to have their blueprint and also know the dragon script so as to decipher it. And ICly, Ull is the only one possessing said knowledge.
These questions have been on my mind for a while and tbh, I still have yet to decide on one.
One thing I know though is that I don't want to limit you all if you want to use dragons in your plots.
So, a penny for your thoughts?