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NitroIndigo Since: Jun, 2021
2025-04-29 23:32:57

I think new "sliding scale" tropes are discouraged.

KD Since: May, 2009
2025-04-30 08:22:00

It's not specific to dragons, but some of this is tied to High Fantasy versus Low Fantasy.

In High Fantasy, fantastic creatures tend to be legendary, extremely long lived, divine, explicitly magical, that sort of thing. A dragon might be an ancient sorcerer who hoards magical artifacts.

In Low Fantasy, if there are fantastic creatures, they tend to be closer to ordinary animals that happen to have noteworthy abilities, but usually restricted to abilities that MythBusters might deem "Plausible". Dragon firebreathing, for example, could be seen as an extension of abilities that real animals have, like the bombaridier beetle and formic acid-spraying ants.

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