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Dragons
Dragons are legendary creatures, typically with serpentine or otherwise reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures.
There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other Asian countries.
The traditional European dragon is a large reptilian creature with wings who lives in underground caves filled with treasure. They can breathe fire.
Chinese dragons are more serpentine in shape who possess ...more
There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other Asian countries.
The traditional European dragon is a large reptilian creature with wings who lives in underground caves filled with treasure. They can breathe fire.
Chinese dragons are more serpentine in shape who possess ...more
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To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.
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― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
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But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
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― Guards! Guards!
― Guards! Guards!
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