FillipeMattos Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Dragonborn would be actually a Wyveborn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FillipeMattos Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 (edited) I would say that the wyverns are dragons's cousins and belong the family of dragons, hence usually are associated how dragons, but, are just dragon's cousins. The Dragonborn is not limited just to the occidental dragon, how anything that seems physically with a dragon how the wyverns . Well, this is my opinion about the subject. Edited April 17, 2013 by FillipeMattos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sisterof Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 (edited) Thanks, Captain Pedantic. ;D^ This. And pretty much what everyone else pointed out.Unless you can give us a real life dragon and prove TES got it wrong, I'm afraid we'll have to just accept that they are mythical creatures with the most diverse interpretations. Just browse Wikipedia for a second on the subject - you'll see several cultures around the world have dragons in their mythology, and several of them completely unlike any LotR's version. As I already said somewhere else in the forums, I find Skyrim's dragons made of sheer awesomeness. They are strong, imposing, intelligent, cultured. They make use of a little known real life myth of dragons teaching humans to talk. They are graceful while flying and savage when on ground. They are immortal and care nothing for belongings (even shiny ones), though they are inherently arrogant and power-hungry, which is very amusing in my book, and a good change from "I feel compelled to hoard gold". </unhelpful and irrelevant comment></closing tags that haven't been opened> Edited April 17, 2013 by sisterof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sisterof Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 (edited) And then I double posted somehow. Where's the delete button anyway? :dry: Edited April 17, 2013 by sisterof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoreSeeker Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 As people have repeatedly pointed out in other threads, this is The Elder Scrolls, not Dungeons&Dragons. That's why the elves are so ugly. LOL its obviously not D&D either...or the dragon/wyverns would have weird beaks and scorpion tails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLoreSeeker Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 As I already said somewhere else in the forums, I find Skyrim's dragons made of sheer awesomeness. They are strong, imposing, intelligent, cultured. They make use of a little known real life myth of dragons teaching humans to talk. They are graceful while flying and savage when on ground. They are immortal and care nothing for belongings (even shiny ones), though they are inherently arrogant and power-hungry, which is very amusing in my book, and a good change from "I feel compelled to hoard gold". Now if only they were a bit more challenging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imperistan Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Honestly, at this point, who cares? Most people will call both dragons regardless, and even for the few that won't, I doubt they'd all be so anal as to really get hung up over using dragon as a broad term for "lizards that breathe fire and fly and ****". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeruk3 Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Skyrim is set in an alternate universe, so their Dragons could be our Wyverns. Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordSarcasm Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Wyverns are as much a kind of dragon as theropods are a kind of dinosaur, or felines are a kind of mammal. Dragon is just a broad term for any non-humanoid mythical reptile. After that you get into more specific variations like wyrms, wyverns, hydras and the like. And the word dragon actually comes from a Greek root word meaning to have great eyesight or something, so they may very well have used the term to describe birds of prey even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sisterof Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Now if only they were a bit more challenging.I quite agree. Were you in the other thread when I was whorin' around for the Wyrmstooth mod? If yes, bear with my dementia. If not, then go take a look! This is exactly what I wanted from each Dovah: all of them "overlords" by themselves, with servants, plans, strategy, personality. The game would need a different mechanism for learning shouts, though. Or maybe we could get a high number of Dragon souls from the minions of those greater Dragons - like the most powerful ones having armies of their own kind at their disposal, like true conquerors instead of random angry flying lizards here and there. The lack of any Dragon like the one we meet in Wyrmstooth is what makes me a sad panda. The only one that does show the any level of intelligence and influence is Alduin as we barely see him. :/ Paarthurnax doesn't count - he's a retired overlord. Oh, there's Durnehviir too! He's great but we only hear about his days of glory instead of witnessing them. Skyrim is set in an alternate universe, so their Dragons could be our Wyverns.Just saying."Our" Wyverns? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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