Difference between revisions of "Talk:Dragon Breeds"

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Amazing image. This is without doubt one of the best pages on the wiki. I can't believe I've only just discovered it. --Andrew 04:28, 6 November 2007 (PST)

Dragon Names

I wonder if we should attempt to make names for the other Chinese dragons. For instance, we know that Celestial Dragons are Lung Tien "Name" (Dragon Celestial "Name"), and Imperials are Qin. Though not explicitly stated, the Shen-Lung dragons are almost certainly Lung Shen, and their page should possibly be titled Spiritual Dragon. Yu can translate as Jade, so that covers Jade Dragons. The only two Chinese dragons we don't have names for are the "Emerald Glass" and the "Scarlet Flower". Is anyone on this wiki familiar enough with the Chinese language to translate the names and create a conjectural name?

Breeds by country

Should we sort the dragon breeds by their country of origin on this page, or should we create another page for them. I just realised that there is at least one type of dragon (a small purple breed from China) that we have no other information about, and as such we won't be able to create a page for it. But, if this page was sorted by country, then we could add a note in the Chinese Breeds section about it. Thoughts on this?

Perhaps start a new page called something like "List of dragon breeds by country of origin" that can be put at the top of this Dragon Breeds category index? Maybe then we could move the Dragons in America and Dragons in Canada page there, since they are sort of miscategorized in the "Dragons" secetion, which is pimarily individual dragons? -- strangerface

I'd suggest adding countries of origin as indexed subcategories, in the same way that the "Category:People" page is already set up. --Wombat1138 19:51, 12 August 2010 (PDT)

Agreed. How about listing them in order of size in these categories, if such information is known?

An update; I've just sorted all of the breeds into groups of native country and size. Some of these I had to guess at, si I marked these with asterisks and said as much at the top of the section. The question I have is should the sizes as given in the fan-image of all the dragon breeds be accepted as canon, or should we use that as a guide?

Do we know whether the fan artist had any extra information from NN about relative sizes? Technically, it would be useful to have every official citation of dragon size from the series-- but it would be just as tedious to compile all of those cites as it would be to read them. WRT the national origin sections, my first impulse was to try correlating the numbers within each subsection to the main art index numbers at the start of the article... I wonder if it would be worthwhile to change the art index into a dynamic table that included (and could be sorted by) national origin, though I'm not sure how the sizes could be factored into that. (An easier way might be to simply color-code individual breed names in the existing art index.)--Wombat1138 15:02, 14 August 2010 (PDT)

These notes on Wikipedia may have merit; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeraire_(series)#Dragon_classification_by_size