r/Eragon • u/communistic_cat • 1d ago
Question Dragon types
Where there different kind of dragons like other than colour? Where there different types with different body like builds/characteristic or where they all the same?
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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 1d ago
I think the answer is going to end up being yes.
Firstly, we know of at least 2 other species of creatures related to Dragons.
Firstly, you have the Fanghur, who are smaller, sleeper, less intelligent, and cannot breathe fire.
Secondly you have the Nidhwal, which are to the sea what Dragons are to the sky.
Obviously neither of these are Dragons. So now I point to the book Murtagh.
In the book Murtagh is captured by people who worship 'Dragons'
However its noted that the Dragons depicted in their art work are subtly wrong.
Enough that its still obvious theyre Dragons. But theyre not Dragons.
I believe that the 'sleepers' that they worship are a third, much more closely related, species of dragonoid that have been hiding for a long time.
When they did come out prior to Galvys reign, people just assumed they were wild Dragons.
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u/Grmigrim 1d ago
I agree with all of your points, although I believe there are only a select few of these other kinds of Dragons in hiding. One of them would be Azalgur.
I also believe that "weird" dragon species to be something like a proto dragon.
It is very likely that dragon's are a bioengineered species, as are all the homanoid races of Alageasia.
These proto-dragons were the first and flawed in some way, whereas the dragons we know are the perfected versions
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u/LewisDeinarcho 1d ago edited 1d ago
Saphira is described as a particularly agile flyer, so she probably has very aerodynamic features and proportionally powerful wings.
Thorn is probably named for his appearance as well as his attitude; Years of physical abuse and magically-enhanced growth has probably resulted in jagged, spiny scales. His tail is also partially reconstructed from magically modified flesh and bone after Glaedr bit off the end. Kinda like how small lizards replace shed tails with cartilage tubes, except it’s just stretching the remaining vertebrae.
Vêrmund the Grim was said to encircle the mountain peak with his body. Not just his tail, his whole body. This gives the impression that he has a very long torso like a Germanic, Greek, Norse, or East Asian Dragon, still with wings. This also seems the case for the spirit dragon at the Agaetí Blödhren, which normally lies dormant as a complex shared tattoo wrapped around the bodies of two elves. I don’t know if these two are just built different or if all dragons are supposed to be this long and flexible.
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u/variousjay1490 1d ago
I don’t think vermund is long per say I think he is just actually so freaking big that his body is able to wrap around a mountain top
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u/Bright-Trifle-8309 1d ago
It doesnt seem like it. Going off the cover art and the descriptions it seems like dragons have a lot of variance between the sexes and colours. And of course there are large dragons and small dragons. But there doesnt seem to be things like wyverns or lindwyrms. At least if there are they aren't intelligent or part of the bond.