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Post by newburydave on Apr 10, 2010 7:57:36 GMT -5
A tattoo huh?
I want a mermaid riding a dragon!
Or do I have to have a tall ship in the picture.
I've always been an "age of sail nut", my great uncle was a clipper ship captain in the China trade, until his wife said "it's me or the sea." Then he went to work for Royal Typewriter in Hartford, CN.
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Post by ryain on Apr 10, 2010 10:18:50 GMT -5
LOL Poor Uncle. Lucky Aunt.
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Post by newburydave on Apr 12, 2010 8:03:27 GMT -5
Well a man's got to have his priorities straight.
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Post by ryain on Apr 12, 2010 8:59:17 GMT -5
Right you are.
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Post by journeyman on Apr 14, 2010 18:27:18 GMT -5
Yup, I think he made the right choice.
I had an gr-Uncle Perk that made to to China just in time for the Boxer Rebellion. I don't know if he was on a steamer or a tall ship since there were a few still around then. Still, from what history says, that had to have been a hoot! :-)
A mermaid riding a dragon sounds very fantastical. :-)
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Post by newburydave on Apr 14, 2010 19:04:09 GMT -5
Well, . . . a Draconic race fills about half the ranks of the Guardians, in my Curatorium Story Universe. They make a practice of carrying their human friends when they go fishing or hunting together. Of if mechanical transport fails them for some reason.
So why not a dragon, who has a friend, that happens to be a mermaid or merman?
Anyone crazy enough to go to China on a wooden sailboat that's held together with rope and wooden pegs . . . yeah, a mermaid riding on a dragon sounds about right. That would make sense to a nineteenth century sailor.
IMHO anyway
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Post by journeyman on Apr 15, 2010 12:34:38 GMT -5
So your dragons are more like Chinese dragons then.
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Post by waldenwriter on Apr 17, 2010 0:19:08 GMT -5
So why not a dragon, who has a friend, that happens to be a mermaid or merman? Anyone crazy enough to go to China on a wooden sailboat that's held together with rope and wooden pegs . . . yeah, a mermaid riding on a dragon sounds about right. That would make sense to a nineteenth century sailor. IMHO anyway That sounds pretty cool. There are dragon-like sea monster creatures, particularly in Asian traditions (as journeyman suggested). Like in Hayao Miyazaki's film Spirited Away, Haku was really a river spirit and he could take the form of a long, snake-like dragon as well as that of a human. So it can be done.
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Post by newburydave on Apr 17, 2010 5:34:33 GMT -5
In my Curatorium Story Universe I've got four different species of dragons who come in six different flavors. Two of the species come in either God fearing or Darkest One infested (demon possessed) mode.
There is a fifth kind of "dragon like" beast, but they're not really dragons (elemental spirits entrusted with a charge over some important aspect of the universe by the creator). To my understanding true dragons are "material angels", the evil ones are like the demons, fallen angels who have sold themselves to Satan's service for power or wealth.
The fifth dragonlike species are descendents of the cursed sauropod that Lucifer used to decieve Eve and tempt Adam into sin. They are the classic Wrms or Wurms of Western European lore. They are not transcendent, they're just foul spirited beasts who have great strength and cunning.
One of the Dragon species is the Archetype on which the Proto-Chinese peoples modeled the classic Chinese dragons. Chinese dragons are generally beneficial and nurturant to mankind.
So I guess the answer to your question is "it depends".
SGD
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