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Saurians [Dragon's Dogma] vs. Gagagigo [Yu-Gi-Oh!]

Best Fictional Lizard Tournament: Round 1G, Poll 8/8

Saurians [Dragon's Dogma]

Gagagigo [Yu-Gi-Oh!]

Voting ended onAug 7

Propaganda (if any) under the cut! Please be civil, and please reblog!

Propaganda for Saurians [Dragon's Dogma]:

"Various forms of these things can spit poison, use magic (saurian sages), and are perpetually on fire (sulfur saurians)."

Propaganda for Gagagigo [Yu-Gi-Oh!]:

"The "Gigo" line of normal monsters all tell a fairly sad, continuous story of the central monster. This one is: "This young evildoer used to have an evil heart, but by meeting a special person, he discovered justice.""

[hollowwhisperings]

Dragons of Teyvat, ReTranslated: Vishaps & Saurians

note: due to genshin impact being a mainland chinese game, this post translates from simplified script rather than traditional script. nonetheless, i feel it is very important to share that 龍 is the traditional character for "dragon/dinosaur" and it has an actual dragon in it.

龙蜥 (dragon lizards) -> vishaps (armenian: dragon)

幼岩龙蜥 young [geo] dragon-lizard -> young geo vishap

深海龙蜥幼体・原种 deep sea dragon¹ lizard hatchling - prototype -> primordial bathysmal vishap hatchling

深海龙蜥幼体・啮冰 deep sea dragon lizard hatchling - ice-biting -> rimebiter bathysmal vishap hatchling

深海龙蜥幼体・吞雷 deep sea dragon lizard hatchling - thunder-swallowing -> bolteater bathysmal vishap

龙 (dragon) -> saurian [greek: saurus, "lizard"]

嵴锋龙 mountain-guarding dragon -> tepetli [nahuatl: "mountain"] + saurus

鳍游龙 fin-travelling dragon -> kohola [hawaïan: "whale"] + saurus

匿叶龙 leaf-hidden dragon -> yumka [maya: yum kaax, "forest"] + saurus

绒翼龙 silk-winged dragon² -> qucu [maya: quq'umatz, "feathered serpent"] + saurus

暝视龙 dusk-watching dragon -> iktomi [legendary lakota trickster hero] + saurus

突角龙 horn-charging dragon -> tatanka [lakota: "buffalo"] + saurus

Footnotes

¹海龙 (sea dragon) is also a colloquial name for sea otters (獭) or blowfish (鯸).

²翼龙 (winged dragon) is also the word for pterosaur (who are different enough from dinosauria to get their own clade, pterosauria).

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[plastick1tty]

it is really important you listen to the cosmic friends

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[backstage-edits]

halloween saurian icons cut out from the 2024 halloween art