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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1313677" data-attributes="member: 571">Dragon Evolution IIIThe Ice AgesThree million years ago life changed forever. They weren’t the worst ice ages the world has ever known. The longest, the most intense. But they did change things as no other set of ice ages ever did. Climate became extremely erratic, going from one extreme to another in a matter of a few years. Species went extinct, replaced by new species. Which went extinct in their turn to be replaced by newer.Dragons were especially hard hit. With the initial wave of extinctions dragons found themselves hard pressed to survive. Many species did not. For all their might, for all their innate power, the dragons of the period were not able to adapt to the changes then occurring. The rapid changes.All except one species. A nondescript species of dragon. Small, no more than 500 pounds in weight. The animal is shown as a medium gray in color, but it could have been of almost any hue. We don’t know. For some reason attempts to time scry specimens have failed. But claims of active interference in the scyring have no evidence to back them up.It is from this species that all modern dragons are descended.Modern dragons evolved alongside of Man and his descendents. Indeed, such as elves and kobolds (Europe) and gnolls and flinds (Africa) may have been ‘bred’ by early modern dragons for some reason known best to them. It is said that gold and silver dragons gained their ability to become humans and elves through their long association with the genus Homo. Others such as the red and blue developed sorceries that allowed them to take on the appearance of homids the better to keep track of a possible menace, and a possible friend.By 15,000 years ago all but one of the modern species had appeared. White dragons in the arctic, red dragons in the mountains. The last species to evolve apparently did so in historical times. The crystal dragon (most closely related to the white dragon) appears to have made its first appearance over the city of Nippur around 2200 BC. From the available evidence the crystal dragon appears to be descended from a now extinct sub-species of white dragon then living in what we know as the Altai Mountains of Central Asia. Said Altai Whites being driven into extinction by a red dragon vendetta.So there you have dragon evolution. Incomplete, with tons more that could be added to spice things up. Obviously the next thing to do is to revise, rewrite, and expand on what has been presented so far, and then post it on my site. so here’s your chance to have a say on what appears in the ‘polished’ version. So comment away.When next I post in this thread the subject will be dragon physiognomy and physiology. Possibly another multiparter. Hope you enjoy.</blockquote>

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