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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9173147" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>It's not just this image. There are multiple official images which very clearly show that their wings have the phalanges pointing forward and the wrist bones pointing backward.</p><p></p><p></p><p>1: I guess I just don't see how that's interesting in and of itself. Good dragons blend divine and arcane already.</p><p>2: Don't understand how being officially Neutral (often the most schizophrenic alignment) breaks you out of being on the alignment spectrum.</p><p>3: Such as?</p><p>4: Different alone is not particularly interesting to me.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Unlikely to gain wide appeal for exactly the reason that it's not identifiable. A zillion unique things, no matter how individually cool, washes out into an indistinct blob.</p><p></p><p>Artistic and thematic identity is kinda like magnetism with more than two poles. Unless you have things mostly pointing in a common direction, there won't be a magnetic force in any clear direction. A single powerful thing works fine; a small set of individual things <em>can</em> work if you put in the effort; a hundred things pointing in a hundred directions rarely works unless you tap into deep mythic resonances.</p><p></p><p>A thousand different things, nobody's going to remember anything but what they all share in common, and if they're all pointedly unique, then few will remember anything about them at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9173147, member: 6790260"] It's not just this image. There are multiple official images which very clearly show that their wings have the phalanges pointing forward and the wrist bones pointing backward. 1: I guess I just don't see how that's interesting in and of itself. Good dragons blend divine and arcane already. 2: Don't understand how being officially Neutral (often the most schizophrenic alignment) breaks you out of being on the alignment spectrum. 3: Such as? 4: Different alone is not particularly interesting to me. Unlikely to gain wide appeal for exactly the reason that it's not identifiable. A zillion unique things, no matter how individually cool, washes out into an indistinct blob. Artistic and thematic identity is kinda like magnetism with more than two poles. Unless you have things mostly pointing in a common direction, there won't be a magnetic force in any clear direction. A single powerful thing works fine; a small set of individual things [I]can[/I] work if you put in the effort; a hundred things pointing in a hundred directions rarely works unless you tap into deep mythic resonances. A thousand different things, nobody's going to remember anything but what they all share in common, and if they're all pointedly unique, then few will remember anything about them at all. [/QUOTE]
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