So I've been trying to sort of re-skin a lot of the standard fantasy tropes and give them an interesting (to me anyway) personality. So what to do, if anything about some of the bigger fantasy tropes?
And I mean that literally, BIG tropes, specifically giants and dragons.
A dragon equivalent would e way enough to explain - there was life on the world before the gods got there, there could easily have been a large, smart, dangerous, flying predator of some type. Easy enough to assume that some god or other tinkered with them, made them even bigger and smarter, and gave them access to magic. The latter would be necessary if the whatever was to be truly draconian in scope, as a creature that big would need magic to fly, at the very least.
But how to do it without just making a dragon, or something that screams "this is supposed to be a dragon, yet is kind of stupid"?
Wyvern would be easy enough to explain. Birds or local bird-like organisms that were boosted by the gods, or just mutated by exposure to the blood.
Maybe just have someone doodle something, and figure out what it is afterwards...
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