For me, there is an acception to the "born evil" rule: wyverns. They're just hatched nasty! (These are my wyverns, though.) They routinely crush all the other eggs in their clutch, are cunning and powerhungry, destroy because they feel like it, and serve the Destroyer. Their father is Thead (Death). Oh, and all of my multi-headed dragons are slimeballs. They get really nasty when they have more than one head for some reason.
Here are the cheif dragon types (European) for those who want to know:
Heraldic- four legs, tail, a pair of wings (Tolkien's dragons are all heraldics as was Draco from "Dragonheart" and most story dragons)
Wyvern- two legs, tail, a pair of wings (said to have a bad attitude, no matter what; I believe Scarlet may have been a wyvern but I can't be sure and I'm not reading "Wizard's First Rule" again to find out! *shudder*)
Amphitere- no legs, tail, a pair of wings (these aren't in many stories yet; just wait 'till my friend gets her book published, though, then you'll see more of them!)
Guivre- two legs, tail, no wings (I have yet to see any of these in any story save mine)
Lindworm- no legs, tail, no wings (they like water; haven't seen them in any story but my own)
There are five different kinds of Chinesse dragons too, but I don't remember what they were. All I remember is that you could tell where an eastern dragon was from by the number of its toes. (Either China, Japan or Korea.) Got this all from a dragon book at the library some years ago. I'd like to find it again, it was very cool. Had the story of Beowulf's death and everything in it!
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WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)
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