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Originally Posted by John Carroll
I thought about going the komodo way with lots of acids in saliva and otherwise, but it breaks other parts of the story.
I'm not sure about the dragon's physiology. I'm at a point where I don't need to justify or explain it yet, so I'm not going to get scientific.  I'm still developing the character as I go and that will influence the scientific details in the future.
Dragons in this world are insanely intelligent, so I don't want them to be much like dinosaurs. |
It's not so much the dinosaur mentality as the physiology; the hollow bone structure like that of birds really assists the notion of flight, but that doesn't really comment upon their levels of intellect.
I'm probably still reading too much into science and physiology, but the whole sedentary nature of reptiles, absorbing warmth in the sun for a few hours before a burst of activity and the like, seems a bit counter-intuitive to how awesome dragons are.
With an embarrassingly prolific background in Dungeons & Dragons (oh, lord, I still play...), I always liked dragons as being very intelligent.