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Dragons, Wyverns & Wyrms A Primer
By LordKaelan
A short primer is the differences between Dragons, Wyverns & Wyrms.
   
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Category: Characters, Classes, Loot, Secrets, Story or Lore
Languages: English
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17 Jan, 2017 @ 9:19pm
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Overview
Dragons! 
Wyverns! 
Wyrms! 
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Dragons!
Starting off strong we have Dragons these mythical beasts have 2 or more wings, no less then 4 legs and any number of tails. in their purest from. Dragon is the common name for most winged reptiles even if that name isn't accurate. Examples:
Wyverns!
Next up we have Wyverns These winged beast have two back legs with no front legs as their claws are usually located in there wings, not unlike a bat. They have any number of wings and tails, Think Skyrim as all it's 'Dragons' are in-fact Wyverns! The Token 'Dragon' card is clear case of a Wyvern being mislabel as a Dragon. Examples:
Wyrms!
And finally we have Wyrms The most snake like of the draconic race, Wings and Legs are optional. Gods of the sky and sea. most commonly seen in east Asian culture. Example:
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UltimatBlitz 9 Mar, 2024 @ 7:29am 
I did have a children's book that said something like this. It was like a fake dragon biology pop up book. I hope that wasn't damaged in the basement flood.
Nurse Gundam 2 Jul, 2023 @ 6:21pm 
@UncleDrake Do you have a source from that? You aren't thinking of the stuff from the fake documentary, the Docudrama "Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real." right? It's pretty common for people to post stuff from that saying it's real as April Fools hoax.
Zekktech 19 Dec, 2021 @ 3:15pm 
Wait
HENREX 31 Aug, 2021 @ 11:11am 
Afton moment
UncleDrake 29 Oct, 2020 @ 7:39pm 
I cannot agree with @tea sipper. Dragons and wyverns, while extinct now, did exist in the early middle ages (a mostly intact skeleton was dated to 11th century norway for example).

The only fantasy part is the affinity to magic and stealing princesses...
LordKaelan  [author] 2 Oct, 2020 @ 7:38pm 
I should really update this, put some more effort into it.
Nabisco Inferno 2 Oct, 2020 @ 4:42am 
I'm glad somebody finally cleared this up for me. Good guide.
Plutie Heart 12 Jun, 2020 @ 12:50am 
I agree with @tea sipper on this one.I'll also add on that while the word "dragon" (which, might I add, was derived from the ancient greek word drakon which means "great serpent") described a very different beast across various parts of the world across history, "wyvern" and "wyrm" have very grounded depictions and definite etymologies in comparison as they only appeared in Europe.
miralight 1 Feb, 2017 @ 11:57am 
its accurate enough
TauFemale 24 Jan, 2017 @ 12:03am 
every fantasy content have their own definition of certain words and what it defines, lets take skyrim for example, just because the dragons in skyrim looks like wyverns in other fantasy genre it dosent necessary mean you have to call it and specify it as wyvern. also look at shenlong, its a chinese dragon, we all know that, so why even call it a wyrm where the word it self originates from europe and its mostly used to define german dragons? ask chinese people if they call their dragon "wyrms", they dont, they just call it a dragon, so why should we call it a wyrm? or define it as a wyrm?. most things in fantasy contents are imaginary, you can basically call them whatever you want, and by defining them or binding them to a specific word will only limit the content that creators can express in their work. in conclusion everyones definition of dragon/wyver/wyrm is different and you cant really just come and say "this is done right and that is wrong"