Welcome to the dragons' section of the Lair! If you've ever loved dragons, then you'll understand me about being asked over and over why I like them. Argh! I'll answer here and now and be done with it! Dragons, for me, are the epitome of grace, beauty, strength, and intelligence. Grace? How can a great mucking dragon with wings twice its length and tail possibly be graceful? I suppose that only a dragon enthusiast would believe that, then. Can I convince you? Beauty, well, try to see the beauty in the sun shimmering off wet, sapphire-bright scales as the dragon climbs from a mountain lake. See how she holds her head just so, and the light glimmers off her ivory-silver horns? She holds her wings just above the sandy ground, and you can see a blurry landscape through their translucence. As she turns to face you, her eyes shine like burnished gold with the intensity of her gaze. Beauty? Damn straight. They have a strength unlike any other creature, something akin to dinosaurs.

They are crafty opponents for any adventuring group, and that's only when authors grant dragons bestial intelligence. Me? I vote for the theory that there are those dragons who have intelligence and sapience equal (if not better!) than our own. For that reason movies and novels in which dragons are merely evil beasts with great treasure hoards (ever think how they got it or why those particular treasure?), waiting for an adventuring party to end their miserable lives just...irritates me. A lot. Has there ever been a good dragon movie? Well, 'Dragonslayer' had a nice-looking dragon, 'Dragonheart' had a nice personality and a great voice, and 'Flight of Dragons' had the logic worked out for dragon fire and flight, but have those qualities ever been in one movie? Perhaps, in 'The Hobbit' (the animated one), barely. On the whole, dragon movies have definetly fallen far short of capturing their majesty.

Ah, but books---now, that's different. The Black Wing does a rather fine job of portraying Khisanth, the black dragon gaurding the Temple Xak Tsaroth. Dragoncharm does a nice job, with dragons of charm (6-limb frame and magical) and the natural dragons (4-limb frame). Richard Knaak's Dragonrealm series is refreshing with its shapeshifting dragon/knights...but not after the fifth or so book. Perhaps it was that I got tired of hearing the world 'ravashing' describing a sorceress. The various Dragonlance books on dragons (The Dragons at War, The Dragons of Krynn, and whatever other collection books they published) do a passing fair job, somewhat skimping on description, unfortunately. Thorannin Gunnarson's Dragons on the Town (and the rest of the series, which I've not read---yet) is hillarious and rediculous, but it still presents a good view of dragons! (albeit fairy dragons).

That leaves dragons on the web. Mostly these sites are picture archives, but it's nice to know that we dragon enthusiasts are not alone or quiet:

• Dragonweave Silver Dragon Jewelry Silver dragon charms and rings and torques!
• Dragon Neo 2000 Home to Dragon Zen and other interesting philosophies
• Here be dragons The ultimate dragon site
• Windseeker's Homepage Massive mythical creatures information site
• Dragons: an Overview
• Dancing Dragons Catalog Online! Pricey, but pretty
• Dragon Realm Studios Expensive but beautiful, these people make poseable latex dragons nearly five feet long!
• Dragon Dreams Another online catalog
• Dragoncode A draconian version of geek code.

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