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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4676601" data-attributes="member: 54707">I agree with you (to a degree) and I'm not saying that the Duke or his fictional kingdom is real. Not really real. But they are relatable to our natural human experience. Some things though, like dragons, are not real. (Though they may have a parallel relationship to things like Komodo dragons.)So I'm saying it is a matter of degree.We cannot really know how a dragon would behave, so we anthromorphosize (a little pun) it. But I have a feeling that even if a dragon was intelligent that it would behave and fight in a totally alien manner, not in a way like a human would, but in a way that would be nothing like a human would, based on an extremely different physique, psychological outlook, and set of physical and mental capabilities. It is for instance really impossible to demonstrate flight by leathery bat wings for people, but it is easy to demonstrate negotiation by argument (in the case of the Duke).I am for instance a big proponent of not turning monsters into just people with sharp teeth and claws, and who just have scales instead of scale armor. Monsters, or many of them, should be deeply alien in relation to people, not just masks put on human behavior. Even creatures that are a lot like humans would be very different to us if they could really communicate with us. Dogs, for instance. Very human like in many circumstances, very not like humans at all in others. (I also like Elves who are not humans in disguise.) But that's another story.So whereas none of it is &quot;really, real&quot; some of it is more really real than other parts are.So it's a matter of degree.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 4676601, member: 54707"] I agree with you (to a degree) and I'm not saying that the Duke or his fictional kingdom is real. Not really real. But they are relatable to our natural human experience. Some things though, like dragons, are not real. (Though they may have a parallel relationship to things like Komodo dragons.) So I'm saying it is a matter of degree. We cannot really know how a dragon would behave, so we anthromorphosize (a little pun) it. But I have a feeling that even if a dragon was intelligent that it would behave and fight in a totally alien manner, not in a way like a human would, but in a way that would be nothing like a human would, based on an extremely different physique, psychological outlook, and set of physical and mental capabilities. It is for instance really impossible to demonstrate flight by leathery bat wings for people, but it is easy to demonstrate negotiation by argument (in the case of the Duke). I am for instance a big proponent of not turning monsters into just people with sharp teeth and claws, and who just have scales instead of scale armor. Monsters, or many of them, should be deeply alien in relation to people, not just masks put on human behavior. Even creatures that are a lot like humans would be very different to us if they could really communicate with us. Dogs, for instance. Very human like in many circumstances, very not like humans at all in others. (I also like Elves who are not humans in disguise.) But that's another story. So whereas none of it is "really, real" some of it is more really real than other parts are. So it's a matter of degree. [/QUOTE]

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