Is it aDragon?

Not everything draconic is a Dragon.
Sometimes, it's a Wyvern or whatever.

	No Wings	Two Wings
No Legs	Wyrm	Amphithere
Two Legs	Lindworm	Wyvern
Four Legs	Drake	Dragon

Pseudo-wyverns

About

Wyrm: Like a snake, bur scarier

The Lambton Worm terrorised the local area, crushing all who challenged it in its deadly coils. It was only be defeated when John Lambton attached spikes to his armour, causing the Worm to impale itself when trying to crush him.

Amphithere: hard to imagine,

until you remember that Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is sometimes depicted as a winged serpent.

A Norwegian prince born as a Lindworm was restored when his bride made him shed skin after skin until his human body was revealed.

Astrid Hofferson's mount in How to Train Your Dragon is a Deadly Nadder, a variety of Wyvern.

Fire-drake Glaurung was a principal force in the Dagor Bragollach that broke the 400 year Siege of Angband near the end of the First Age of Middle Earth.

Ancalagon, Drogon, Mnementh, Saphira, Smaug, Toothless...

This was inspired by people calling wyverns “dragons” a lot, and then this TikTok from user @bennh58, who was the first person to tell me what a Lindworm was.

made with ♥️ by Daniel Baird daniel@danielbaird.com v2021.3