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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Liquide" data-source="post: 889545" data-attributes="member: 1407">Not entirely true.Almost every mythos have their dragons in some shape or another and almost all dragons were created in about the same time in the diffrent mythosis.Take for example the Norse Linnorms, first record of them is noted somewhere around 800 AD (might be earlier not quite sure about it).Parts of the bible make references to dragons in text written around 300 AD (it might also be due to bad translation they are actually referred to as dragons who knows really <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Greek mythos also refers to a a lot of dragon-like creatures, not just the hydra (laernan hydrae), and the first record of this is even before both of the above references (cannot supply any exact year/century though).Still all of these references are before we the western world had any major contact with any of the eastern cultures, and the dragons referred to in each of the above sources/mythos are a lot more similar to the dragons that were portraid in stories during the dark ages and medieval times then those of asian cultures.Still for me draconian would be a mix of old norse and Acient Greek. A runic script with a flowing speech, much similar to a melody. (ever listened to how norse langauges sound, do that and you will hear something diffrent our languages actually use a melody when you construct sentences in speech)</blockquote>

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