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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9727934" data-attributes="member: 18">It's a lot better than this topaz dragon, I'd actually say, because as [USER=6790260]@EzekielRaiden[/USER] notes, no wings at all or no functional wings mean obviously purely magical flight, which is an established part of most high fantasy settings.Whereas 2 wings 4 legs dragons in fantasy tend to fly on a combination of loose physics and semi-realistic wings (unrealistically small muscles, perhaps but who knows) and perhaps, depending on the setting, some amount of magical flight. Generally speaking, the more modern a vision of dragons you have, whether it's GoT/HotD or How to Tame A Dragon or w/e, the more actually aerodynamic and animal-flight-like the behaviour of the dragons is. Toothless flies absolutely like some kind of bird or bat (despite looking and behaving more like a winged cat cosplaying a salamander), for example, and most of GoT/HotD dragons are somewhere between a large bird and jetliner in how they fly.But if the wings are on backwards, that can only actively impair even magical flight lol.Yup. It's absolutely possible to do that in fact I think it could look kind of dangerously badass, it just wasn't done here.EDIT:Like, imagine a dragon based on this sort of body-plan:[ATTACH=full]414254[/ATTACH]A bit like Quetzalcoatlus mentioned earlier in the thread, but maybe push the wings even further back, so they're above the rear legs and have a short tail, and like, the front limbs are a second pair of wings, and then then there's a long neck with a dangerous-looking head on the end. Hell, bring in the X-29 and make the rear wings actual scimitar forwards - it would look bizarre but it might well look kind of scary, rather than just derpy in a boring way.</blockquote>

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