How And Why Dragons Are So Important To The Rpg Universe
Our grotesque quadruped friends have both Western and Eastern roots, with the Western fella being winged, treacherous, and greedy, and the Eastern counterpart calm, serpentine, and mystical. Almost all cultures have a reference to the dragon in their scriptures, from India to Persia to Japan to Norway. Being a rather vicious reptile, it naturally induced fear into the hearts of our ancestors. Dragons have endlessly fascinated and terrified human beings, but curiously, the concept of hero versus dragon has been an almost perpetual abstract of art, media, and storytelling dating back as far as Sumerian times....