This is my website about whatever I like to talk about, and that just so happens to be dragons! You might know them as those annoying things digging up your yard, or the pests that cause you to always keep a fire extinguisher in the house and your smoke detector working. But take a minute here to see dragons through my eyes- see them for the wonderful and incredibly diverse creatures they are!

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Dragons are creatures belonging to the Senidraconyes class of animals. They are most recognisably categorised by their hexopedal forms, having six limbs (seven if the tail is included) at some point in their development. Usually dragons are quadrupedal, with the additional two limbs forming wings in a skeletal structure convergent with bats. However, dragons are also highly diverse and are often miscategorised under other classes of vertebrate. Other categorisations of dragon include the presence of scales, horns, and the laying of eggs. Dragons are closely related to birds, and share many of their traits due to direct evolutionary links to late dinosaurs.
While early species of dragons are imagined to have been large, fierce predators (much like their dinosaur ancestors), most species of extant dragon have been domesticated at some point in human history. While some carnivorous dragons still exist, many were hunted to extinction. Due to their diversity, various species of dragon have played vastly different roles in human society, for example small fire-breathing species were domesticated in the medieval era as an early (and far more dangerous) form of a modern lighter. Larger species have been kept as livestock and cultures around the world have a diverse range of dragon-based delicacies, with many relating to myths within the society of supernatural gains of strength and power.



In the modern era, dragons have fallen to be little more than pets at best and pests at worst, far from the key part of human society they once were. While some cultures still idolise the symbol of the fierce and powerful dragon, this is quite far from the reality of the feral animals that still try to live alongside the societies that once relied upon them. The most value western society places on dragons is as pretty, exotic pets (often by neglectful or ignorant owners who are incapable of properly tending to the complex creatures' needs) or, greater still, are valued as the spark that spurred many innovations in the development of fire-proof housing and fire-prevention products. However, here I wish to put aside these stereotypes and prejudices, and once again view dragons as the valuable, unique, beautiful creatures we once saw them as. Remember again the days when we had no hunting dogs, but hunting dragons. Remember when there were no lighters, but dragon-lanterns.
Remember when dragons... were dragons.