#stollenwyrm

[draconesmundi]

Appreciate A Dragon Day - Falkor!

Falkor is a dragon from the book The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. He is a white 'luck dragon', with a lion's face and a soft fluffy mane.

In Dracones Mundi, cat-faced dragons are called stollenwyrms - there are stollenwyrms in Germany, which is a fun coincidence as The Neverending Story was a German book

If Falkor was in the world of Dracones Mundi, he would be a close relative of the stollenwyrm, a Luck Dragon, with a longer 'mane' wattle and more lionlike features. An albino Luck Dragon would look something like this:

[draconesmundi]

Happy Dracones Monday! Stollenwyrm!

In folklore you may see this spelled as 'stollenwurm', but I'm choosing to spell 'worm', 'wurm' and 'orm' words as 'wyrm' in my own project! Also, many people know this creature better as the tatzelwurm (tatzelwyrm!) - the cat dragon of the Alps!

I have lumped the tatzelwurm, stollenwurm and arassas from folklore into one species, the 'stollenwyrm'. In Dracones Mundi dragons metamorphose from serpentine immature forms to legged adults, and so the stollenwyrm starts life as a newtlike black serpent, then a 'cat faced' serpent, then a two legged 'half cat half snake' before finding their adult form. Of course, they aren't really 'part cat', they are a crocodylomorph, like all Dracones Mundi dragons, but the fleshy barbels on their face resemble cat whiskers. These barbels are sensitive to tactile sensations (like cat whiskers) and to magic, allowing them to find prey in the dark from magic distruption in the air.

[draconesmundi]

Q: What do you call a kidnapped dragon? A: a stollenwurm *wheeze*

Hehe

The 'stollen' part actually means 'tunnel' :3