{"id":278,"date":"2021-07-07T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:44:12","slug":"the-dragons-of-sarkland-making-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/2021\/07\/07\/the-dragons-of-sarkland-making-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dragons of Sarkland &#8211; Making Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-279\" src=\"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr-1024x663.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr-768x497.jpg 768w, http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr-1536x994.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/janesenese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dragons-lr.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everyone loves dragons! (well, not me, I was more of a dino-nerd) But how to fit them into a world that is much more sci-fi than fantasy? We&#8217;ve all read those &#8220;Physics of Dragons&#8221; articles that explain in painstaking detail why Dany Targaryen&#8217;s trio would never take off.\u00a0 I found my answer in paleontology (remember the dino-nerd?) So you have a drake that is essentially a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megalania\">megalania<\/a> and a lindorm that is a<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mosasaur\"> mosasaur<\/a> with fully atrophied hind flippers.<\/p>\n<p>The wyrm gets&#8230; a little trickier. It&#8217;s based off art of Persian dragons, as well as the Western wyrm. While there is not a clear prehistoric parallel for the wyrm, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/a-fossil-snake-with-four-legs\">prehistoric snakes<\/a> with small, but functional limbs. The head of the wyrm is clearly based off the komodo dragon, and&#8230; well, the stinger is just cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone loves dragons! (well, not me, I was more of a dino-nerd) But how to fit them into a world that is much more sci-fi than fantasy? We&#8217;ve all read those &#8220;Physics of Dragons&#8221; articles that explain in painstaking detail why Dany Targaryen&#8217;s trio would never take off.\u00a0 I found my answer in paleontology (remember <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/2021\/07\/07\/the-dragons-of-sarkland-making-monsters\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janesenese.com\/eots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}