### creativity | imagination | monster | mythical creature:

Dragon
* All dragons have female features when they are young
  - possess the ability to radiate dragonfear
* Many dragons have wings or the head and forelegs of a lion or bird of prey.
* Most dragons have scales of some sort.
* Some Dragons are very small and some are very large.
* Some dragons are small, while others are short
  - can speak, and some have magical powers
* Some dragons have caves
  - visible scars from conflicts with wild boars
  - use tools to suppliment their natural attacks
* also pose a curiosity to their alleged immortality.
* are able to catch the scent of faerie from a mile in the air.
* are an iconic creature of legend
  - important part of the Chinese culture
  - auspicious animals with divine properties
  - benevolent creatures in the East, who help mankind, and chase away evil demons
  - big, ferocious beasts that breathe fire
  - capable of shedding skin and becomming anew
  - complex beings
  - creatures of fantasy
  - depicted on flags, emblems, tapestries, maps, pottery, pictographs, and more
  - dinosaurs
  - great serpentine beasts with wings
  - heavily armored with scales and are extremely tough
  - immune to poison
  - larger than drakes, but smaller than wyverns
  - memorialized in legends, historical accounts, and artwork from around the world
  - more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears
* are most abundant in the lower arid forest and savanna
  - suited with monkeys and rats
  - naturally showy, and often are prone to excess
  - one of the most magnificent creatures of legend
  - powerful creatures using magic to travel between dimensions
  - pure passion, their hearts are of fire and ice
  - quick healers
  - real and they still walk the earth
  - stable and easy to fly
  - strong, fierce, caring, loving, sensitive beings
  - susceptible to flattery
  - the combination of the forces of the depths
  - usually four legged, around the size of a small home to that of a chapel
  - very popular images in catalan tradition
  - winged and they breathe fire
* are, in all conventional cases, unnatural and dangerous creatures.
* can also recognize individual humans
  - look like dinosaurs and other extinct animals
* do have a basis in reality.
* form a telepathic bond with their riders at hatching.
* grow in size, armor, and strength as they age
  - stronger with age in both damage and armor AND size
  - to giant proportions, living for centuries and amassing huge sums of treasure
* have a greater degree of influence over their own reproductive systems than humanoids do
  - long history of being associated with the emperor in China
  - longer body and throat than drakes
  - rough skin, long limbs and alert upright postures
  - the power of complete communication
* is agamids
  - capable of flies
  - cools
  - made of scales
  - reptiles
  - used for killing
* know how to sleep lightly when they are expecting company.
* leave about twenty eggs in empty nests left by birds called megapodes.
* like to chew on edible potted plants that are placed in their cage
  - run through very shallow pans of water in their cage
* live in caves, mountains, or lakes.
* move with the wind.
* prevent the dissemination of wealth.
* recognize ambition and power, especially when it is concentrated in one individual.
* represent beauty, strength, mysticism, and wisdom.
* represent many things to different beings
  - many cultures
* suffering from chronic illnesses can expect an unexpectedly swift recovery in their health.
* symbolize power and masculinity.
* tap into deeper currents of elemental energies than humans.
* tend to have long hind limbs, small, coarse scales and large heads.
* traditionally have wings, scales and breathe fire.
+ Chinese dragon: Legendary creatures :: China
  * There are people inside Chinese dragons. Dragons are very popular in China. The phoenix is a dragon that has five claws and was a powerful symbol for the emperors in China.
+ Komodo dragon, Description, Reproduction: Lizards
  * Mating begins between May and August, and the eggs are laid in September. Dragons leave about twenty eggs in empty nests left by birds called megapodes. The eggs develop for seven to eight months. The eggs open and the baby lizards come out in April, when there are many insects to eat. Young Komodo dragons live in trees, where they are safe from adult Komodo dragons and other animals that might eat them. They take around three to five years to mature and may live as long as fifty years
  - Komodo dragons and people, In zoos
  * Many dragons in zoos may become tamer than wild lizards within a short period of time in a zoo. Many zoo keepers have brought the animals out of their cages to meet visitors without any problems. Dragons can also recognize individual humans. However, even dragons that seem tame may surprise people and become aggressive. This can often happen when a stranger enters the animal's home.
  * Dragons can look like dinosaurs and other extinct animals. Because of that, it is easy to think that those animals might have been an example for dragons as they were thought of in the history of humankind