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When I read an interview with George, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire, Mr. Martin -- who came from a science fiction background -- I saw him say that he didn't plan to include dragons in the book, but his friend said that fantasy can be without dragons, and I silently gave a thumbs up to this friend.

Fantasy novels don't have dragons, just like a charming big sister who is poor breasts, which will always make people a little disappointed. Therefore, not to mention the works of other creators, I will definitely add this setting in my book.

I'm ashamed to say that I've always considered myself just an ordinary author, and all the descriptions of geography, humanities, battles, wars, languages, creatures, and history that have been covered in the book so far have been nothing more than half a bucket of water rather than any real expert. The only qualities I can develop as a person are rigor and seriousness - and even these two qualities are only "relatively."

As a creator, I'm still a young character, and if I look back on many places many years later, I may find many shortcomings that I can't see now, and I sincerely hope that I will not give up until that time. But perhaps it is precisely because of this immaturity and interest that I will delve into most things, not for merit, but for no fault, but to try to perfect a logical and credible worldview background, as a platform for us to unfold the story, to enhance its persuasiveness, as a key factor in the progress of the story.

Among them, dragons, which are the biggest elements of fantasy, are naturally no exception.

I've been interested in paleontology since I was a child, and until I grew up, the works involving all kinds of monsters and paleontology are still my favorites, so I've made a lot of efforts in this direction, and I've made a lot of reference to the ecology of dragon creatures/dragon species in this book. Today's appendix is a deliberate supplement to the realization that its explanation is still not scientific and detailed enough.

#以下的内容涉及到空想科学, if you are not interested in the ecology of the dragon creatures in this book, this dispersion will not affect the understanding of the plot of this book, but only some explanations made by a paranoid person to other paranoids who may have the same interests.

So, the body begins:

First of all, it should be noted that the dragon creatures present in this book, as mentioned in the aforementioned appendix to the Encyclopedia of Dragons, are divided into four main types: protosaurus/true dragon/giant dragon, wurm, miscellaneous dragon, and dragon lizard.

In addition to the location of the biological chain, this order also has a sense of rarity - as the name suggests, the dragon lizard is naturally the most common type, and the miscellaneous dragon is relatively rare, but it is also quite widespread in the area where humans can see it. The next wurms were even rarer, but not to the point where the last dragon had become almost a legendary creature - the latter, by the way, hadn't been seen for at least a hundred years, in this era.

These materials are interrelated with the worldview of this book, and all the nouns and titles are given by the major races in the worldview, so due to the limitations of the scientific and technological level of the times, there are naturally some places that are not perfect, and can even be said to be sloppy, which is also to reflect the background of the times, if there is a chance to write a second book with the same worldview, readers who have been reading it will be able to perceive many details of the changes of the times.

After talking about the degree of rarity, from the most common dragon lizard, the general body size is also in this order - the setting of the dragon lizard, a creature, has been mentioned in another appendix "Dragon Encyclopedia", it does have a dragon character, but it is different from other creatures is a cold-blooded reptile, so the bloodline is closer to crocodiles and lizards. The image of the dragon lizard in the book is a reference to the Triassic Lloyd's crocodile - a main dragon with long legs, which may be a little different from your impression of the dragon lizard = monitor lizard, but in my mind it is the most suitable prototype of the dragon lizard, a medium-sized carnivorous creature. If you are interested, you may wish to search, there are many pictures of Lloyd's crocodile, and some of them have a comparison with human body size, which is also the image of the larger dragon lizard in this book.

After the dragon lizard, it is still very common, and it is the largest number of dragon creatures in this book. The division of this category is limited by the technology of the times, just as Henry, one of the protagonists of the text, complained that "they threw all the unrecognizable dragon creatures here", which is a hodgepodge of classifications, and the previous appendix "The Encyclopedia of Dragons" used the tone of the book and thus left some errors and omissions, describing that "all except dragon lizards are warm-blooded animals" But this is actually not rigorous, because many marine water dragons are also classified into the category of miscellaneous dragons in the worldview, and a very small number of them are also cold-blooded.

However, this is also described to reflect the gap in the worldview, to create a sense of disparity that the author of the book does not know this information, which would not have been known to the reader and the author if not from God's point of view.

And the mixture of warm and cold blood naturally proves to a considerable extent how "hybrid" the so-called "mixed dragons" really are - yes, the vast majority of mixed dragons, even if they are also classified into the same species, are not actually related to each other. In this era, there is no strict division of subjects like modern archaeology, and even other races with a higher degree of civilization than humans only have a more objective division of the real "dragon", that is, the "dragon species", so the category of miscellaneous dragons has been divided into the same category from the more than 60-meter-long emperor dragon that appears in the grassland chapter of this book to the mouse dragon smaller than the dragon lizard.

The so-called real "dragons" that are truly related to each other are only the two categories of "dragons" and "wurms" in the worldview of this book.

The difference between the two and the other two types is that dragons and wurms are both literal "mammals", while miscellaneous dragons are only "warm-blooded reptiles" and dragon lizards are "cold-blooded reptiles".

If we are careful to classify them according to the modern classification method, the scientific name of the giant dragon will be: Mammala - Euzozoa - Lepidaceae - Protosauridae - Eusauridae.

The two types of wurms are: Mammalia - Emus - Lepidaceae-Wurmidae - Winged Ansaurus and Mammalia - E. - Lepidaceae-Wurmidae - Wingless Wurm. I don't know if there's anything wrong with this classification, but I'm not really a biologist, so I'm just writing it on the fly, so you can get a sense of the proximity of the two creatures.

In the set worldview, unlike the vast majority of human names, other races actually only think that wurm and dragon are real dragons, and in order to distinguish them, if similar characters appear in the future, they will say that their names will be changed to "dragon species" - that is, they refer specifically to these two mammals, real dragons of the same blood. As for the miscellaneous dragons, the setting has a lot of references to dinosaurs, so the natural lineage is also closer to birds and crocodiles.

In the case of dragon lizards, there is no need to explain.

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