Topic for your idea of new Dragons for the Scion Dragon book setting. Even some truly non-canon.
My take - as birds are de facto dinosaurs – so fire bird is fire reptile – i.e. Dragon.
1.Phoenix
Phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born again.
He was known to almost all writers of classical antiquity, beginning with Herodotus, who, however, doubted his existence, although he described legends related to him. According to him, the phoenix was the size and appearance of an eagle with golden-red plumage. He came to Egypt from Arabia every 500 years, bringing in the sphere of myrrh the remains of his predecessor laid on the altar of the sun at Heliopolis.
According to another ancient source, Phoenix was supposed to come from India, from where, after 500 years of life, it would go to the Lebannon Forest, where it "bathed its wings in perfume"; then he flew to Egypt, where on the altar of the sun in Heliopolis, in the month of Adar, the priests prepared a special pyre on which he burned and rose after three days.
According to Ovid, he was to eat drops of incense and cardamom juices, and after 500 years of life, he would build a nest filled with cassia bark, nard spines, yellow myrrh and cinnamon, and then he would die and reborn on his own, and he would take his nest to the city of Hyperion, again in an altar dedicated to the sun.
In reality, Phoenix is survivalist. He adopted to various Pantheons – Netjer, Theoi, even Deva – just to not be forgotten. He is not interested in Gods and Dragons war, he only points to his own survival. He even forgot his starting Flight, those millennia ago – or has he never chosen one?
Phoenix is known to travel the World – but also to hide. He return to his own Lair is flaming Terra Incognita, Heart of Fire, where no one, but himself can survive. His Heirs are known to recreate those environments as close as they can on Earth.
Callings: Mystic, Nomad, Primeval
Memory: Being reborn in fire, Betrayal from Gods and Dragons a like, Travel to Heart of Fire
Dragon Magic: Animal Control, Elemental Manipulation (Air), Elemental Manipulation (Fire), Understanding
My take - as birds are de facto dinosaurs – so fire bird is fire reptile – i.e. Dragon.
1.Phoenix
Phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born again.
He was known to almost all writers of classical antiquity, beginning with Herodotus, who, however, doubted his existence, although he described legends related to him. According to him, the phoenix was the size and appearance of an eagle with golden-red plumage. He came to Egypt from Arabia every 500 years, bringing in the sphere of myrrh the remains of his predecessor laid on the altar of the sun at Heliopolis.
According to another ancient source, Phoenix was supposed to come from India, from where, after 500 years of life, it would go to the Lebannon Forest, where it "bathed its wings in perfume"; then he flew to Egypt, where on the altar of the sun in Heliopolis, in the month of Adar, the priests prepared a special pyre on which he burned and rose after three days.
According to Ovid, he was to eat drops of incense and cardamom juices, and after 500 years of life, he would build a nest filled with cassia bark, nard spines, yellow myrrh and cinnamon, and then he would die and reborn on his own, and he would take his nest to the city of Hyperion, again in an altar dedicated to the sun.
In reality, Phoenix is survivalist. He adopted to various Pantheons – Netjer, Theoi, even Deva – just to not be forgotten. He is not interested in Gods and Dragons war, he only points to his own survival. He even forgot his starting Flight, those millennia ago – or has he never chosen one?
Phoenix is known to travel the World – but also to hide. He return to his own Lair is flaming Terra Incognita, Heart of Fire, where no one, but himself can survive. His Heirs are known to recreate those environments as close as they can on Earth.
Callings: Mystic, Nomad, Primeval
Memory: Being reborn in fire, Betrayal from Gods and Dragons a like, Travel to Heart of Fire
Dragon Magic: Animal Control, Elemental Manipulation (Air), Elemental Manipulation (Fire), Understanding
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