Firedrakes
Hello dragon nerds! In the past my project, Dracones Mundi, had three ‘4 legs 2 wings’ dragons, the bullar (bolla, balaur and hydra), the smok (and ddraig goch and firedrake) and the zmey - but the lines between which legends got sorted into which chapters got blurrier and blurrier and eventually I decided that having one species, the firedrake, with lots of subspecies or varieties would be an easier way to organise these dragons.
The above map and size charts are not final products (map provided by wikipedia commons, man provided by shutterstock) but a work in progress to help me decide what I want from these dragon designs. And for those in a bald patch on this map, no worries, the firedrake is one of many dragons in Europe and every inch of this map would be covered in dragons if I included all the wyrms and wyverns and amphitheres and tatzelwurms etc etc.
Also I apologise for the moment England also has the ddraig goch, later it may just have ‘western firedrake’ while ddraig goch becomes endemic to Wales alone, who knows? Also some regions of Spain may need a firedrake but I couldn’t decide what variety to put there.
May need better name for ‘western firedrake’.
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