What kind of dragons are there in the world of Rigar has not been clarified until now.
But based on what we know, we can still summarize the following key points.
First of all, dragons are all warm-blooded animals, except for dragon lizards, which have thin blood and basically have nothing to do with them other than the word "dragon". We currently only have some inferences about how it originated.
A statement widely recognized among the general academic community and the Druid Church is based on the results of archaeological fossil excavations: in quite ancient times, dragons lived in what we today simply call Known as the "Ancient Continent", it is a continent with gentle terrain and mild climate. According to the research on unearthed fossils, the original primitive dragon was a warm-blooded creature that was not much different from modern pangolins and other scaly mammals, and was about the same size as a dwarf.
They have experienced millions of years of evolution and have some differences. Simply put, they are divided into vigorous carnivores and docile herbivores, just like modern cows, horses and lions.
Perhaps it should have developed this way, but tens or even hundreds of millions of years ago, a series of geological evolutions occurred in the ancient continent.
Icebergs melt, sea levels rise, continents break apart, and volcanoes erupt.
The originally vast continent has turned into islands one after another, and these phenomena are getting worse step by step.
In order to survive, a large part of the primitive dragons evolved wings and had the ability to fly across the ocean.
Some of them simply went to live in the sea and became the water dragons that sailors talk about today.
We don’t know what happened to the remaining part, and history has left us very few clues in this regard. We only know that after a long, long period of time, the continents merged together again. At this time, flying dragons no longer need the ability to cross the strait.
This concept is somewhat controversial, but overall, it is a more reliable statement.
Because of the competitive relationship between top predators and following the law that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, some pterosaurs degenerated into more robust pterosaurs - some people say that they are just the descendants of the pterosaurs that survived that year - -And after a long period of time measured in millions, they have developed many other dragon species.
Time flies by, and in an instant that no one notices, we have arrived at the modern age.
Nowadays, humans and many other civilized races have established their own cities and kingdoms. Our traces can be found in many places on the continent, but in the vast wilderness where humans have not yet set foot, these cities and kingdoms have existed since hundreds of millions of years ago. The ancient creatures still live undisturbed.
Their number is quite large. There has never been a creature that can have so many morphological, ecological and even size differences among the same species. No matter which race wants to summarize and record all dragons, it will probably be impossible. Maybe.
But the dragons we know so far can be roughly classified into the following categories.
First, there is the lowest dragon lizard.
The average dragon lizard is about the size of an adult crocodile, but taller. Like other reptiles, they are cold-blooded animals that need to hibernate. They have a fierce temperament, and their appetite is quite ferocious because they only eat once every few days.
A small number of dragon lizards are included in the category of Warcraft by academic circles. They are larger, at least as big as war horses, and can spit fire or highly toxic liquids. This kind of dragon lizard is usually the target of famous mercenaries and knights to kill, because in the eyes of ordinary people, they basically have everything a dragon should have - as for a real dragon? They can't defeat anyone who can spit fire.
This is one. Dragon lizards are generally not considered true dragon creatures, so they are also the lowest in classification.
Slightly better than dragon lizards, they are dragon-like creatures of the genus Asterosaurus.
The classification of the genus Miscellaneous is quite broad. Almost as long as it does not meet the characteristics of dragon lizards and other two dragon-like creatures, the academic association will throw it into the genus Miscellaneous.
This attribute is quite complicated to explain in detail, so here we will only pick out some key points.
First of all, as mentioned before, its classification is very broad.
From the Argonians, humanoid intelligent creatures that exist in swamps, deserts, grasslands and some mountain forests, to the large rat-like rat dragons that like to live in castle sewers, to the creatures that are often seen near large lakes and rivers. An amphibious herbivorous dragon with a huge body and smooth skin.
These are gentler in temperament than the others, and are generally relatively weak. Most of them are herbivorous, scavenger or omnivorous dragons. They are basically found in every inch of the explored and unexplored land on the Rigar continent.
Compared with other creatures, they don't have much difference. At most, they have the word "dragon" in their names. They were the same ancestors as those fierce flying dragons who didn't know how many years ago.
Unless you are a mage or an adventurer who wants to make money from this, you will basically not remember the scientific names of these creatures.
Because they are too ordinary compared to the next two genera.
Arosaurus genus.
This genus has two branches, as we mentioned before, it is divided into two types: winged dragons and wingless dragons. Generally speaking, winged dragons (hereinafter referred to as flying dragons) are slender and lighter due to the need for flight, while wingless dragons (hereinafter referred to as earth dragons) are strong and huge.
But even the smallest flying dragon is more than two and a half meters tall when standing on the ground with its wings folded - this is still calculated based on shoulder height.
This height is already comparable to that of most giant war horses, and it is only shoulder height. The full name of the smallest flying dragon we mentioned is the Alfred Serpent Flying Dragon, and just like its name, this This kind of flying dragon is slender and has a long neck and tail like a snake.
So in fact, even the smallest flying dragon is far larger than an ordinary horse, let alone a human.
The normal size of most flying dragons is two stories high, and the wings are as big as a barn. With powerful wings and claws and the ability to breathe fire, most flying dragons It's not even a matter of confronting a duke's army.
The strong dragon scales allow weapons other than heavy crossbows to be deflected, and the poor accuracy of these bulky city defense weapons makes them only suitable for attacking the opponent's slow-moving siege vehicles or against bows and arrows. Counterattack from the position of the hand.
Humans, or other civilized races, really don't have many ways to deal with an attack by a flying dragon other than hiding in the basement and shivering.
But even so, being attacked by a flying dragon is still considered lucky, because they understand the fact that they are very vulnerable on the ground. The flying dragon usually only plunders food and then leaves quickly.
What really made people change their minds when talking about "dragons" and achieved many "great achievements" in destroying city-states was another branch of the genus Yalong - the earth dragon.
Naturally strong and strong, with sharp teeth and claws, its huge body makes even mammoths panic and flee in front of it.
Many of them don't know how to use breath attacks, but they don't bother to use them. Standing on four legs on the ground, these behemoths are already taller than most of the city walls. Standing upright on their hind legs, they can directly cross a house. With just a flick of their tail, they can dominate the forest. The tiger and the brown bear turned over several somersaults and fell dizzy.
Dragon creatures are separated from the classification of Warcraft largely because of their superior strength. Most dragon creatures cannot use magic, even if they can breathe fire or poison.
However, the extremely high natural resistance of dragon creatures to magic and their simple and reckless domination allow an earth dragon that can only use claws and teeth to dare to attack even if it encounters rare high-level magical beasts.
And it is precisely because of this top strength that is unique in the world that these extremely aggressive earth dragons often attack the settlements of civilized races, and once they attack, they will inevitably turn the entire city-state or village into a river of blood.
They enjoy killing.
But even so.
Earth dragons are still not the most powerful dragon species.
Standing at the top of the pyramid of dragon creatures is an ancient and powerful beautiful species. If you look at a dragon lizard, you feel the fierceness of the beast. When you look at an earth dragon or a flying dragon, you feel it. The domineering words of a king.
Then when you are lucky enough to meet these behemoths that just fly through the sky, the entire land and the entire city are shrouded in the shadow of their wings.
What you will feel is a strange emotion of shock mixed with tranquility.
It's like standing at the foot of a high mountain and looking up at its peak that is hidden in the clouds and cannot be seen clearly; it's like standing in the endless blue ocean, letting the ebb and flow of the tide cover your feet and just silently Watching it disappear into the distant border - all you can feel is your own insignificance and the vastness of this vast world.
That is the absolute top existence that no one can dare to fight against.
Even the largest earth dragon, standing next to it, would be as small as a child next to an adult.
The origin of the term dragon. It is the only creature that can overlook the entire continent standing on the top of the pyramid.
The druids call it the true dragon, the elves respect that ancient existence as the original dragon, and we call it the giant dragon.
There are records that indicate that a violent earth dragon was fighting with the army of a certain kingdom - or was massacring one-sidedly. When a giant dragon flew from the sky, it immediately abandoned the soldiers and fled in panic.
According to many years of witness records, it is inferred that even the smallest individual of these huge and ancient creatures is nearly sixty meters long. According to the records of the Lamanites who have been extinct for six centuries, there was once a beast that was The giant dragon called "Meteor Star" has a wingspan of 127 meters.
We still don't know the specific characteristics of these huge creatures that are often seen, just like we still don't know how many types of dragon creatures there are.
These magnificent and powerful creatures are part of the diverse nature of this continent, and we hope and pray that they will continue to be as diverse as this world.
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Postscript: I suddenly remembered this information and wanted to write it down. When I was writing my first book, I wrote something similar, which roughly described the world view in the book, and this book actually follows the same world.
It's just that it was the first time I tried it, and there were many mistakes and omissions. There are also many places where the expression is inappropriate, somewhat obscure, or redundant. When writing this book this time, some of the previous settings have been overturned and reset, so if you are an old reader of mine, you may find that some places have a sense of immediateness and familiarity, but also a sense of paradox. .
Everything will be based on the world view re-created in this book.
I wrote this short information piece when I was writing the sixteenth section of the main text: the owner of the castle. In addition to briefly introducing the classification of dragons in the book's worldview, I also talked about some local customs.
In the future, I will probably write some short pieces of similar information one after another to supplement the main text. If you want to know more about the settings of this book, you might as well read it. These will be explained.
Postscript to the postscript: The content of this article is only used to supplement the world view of this book. Even if there are the same terms, please do not apply them to other authors' works. Or in turn, use other authors' settings to refute me. In the final analysis, this is just a novel. Even if I pursue authenticity to a certain extent, it is just to tell the story better. If you want to pursue absolute rigor and authenticity as a thesis, and because of this person who comes to quarrel with me, please go to the right.
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