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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9751619" data-attributes="member: 6799660">Both use the notion of swamps as places of death and fetidness. I wonder where that comes from. Swamps (wetlands that support trees) are generally pretty neutral in pH, and full of life. Admittedly, some of it iconically  poisonous (and Gary seemed to like Chlorine gas, but not regular poison, for dragons, so acid might be a stand-in). Peat bogs (another type of wetland) are acidic -- and fens alkaline. Both of them from the abundance of life (of specific varieties of plants that produce a pH differential). I suppose only fiery volcanos and frozen tundra really intuitively work with any of the element types, with crackling thunder in desert winds being a less forced than than anything else. I could also have seen the forest dragons getting fire breath--in the notion of forest fires. It'd have been kinda funny if Gary had made fire-breathing forest dragons the natural enemies of werebears (with fondness for brimmed hats) or the like.</blockquote>