General Introduction
To this day humans have thought of dragons as enormous, fierce, blood thirsty creatures appearing in fairy tales and legends as an adversary to a brave knight who is set out on a quest to slay the beast and acquire it's fortunes. Dragons are legendary creatures in folklore of many European and Asian cultures. Stories and legends describe dragons as large, lizard like creatures that roam wildly, flying high in the sky attacking villages and castles. Europeans view dragons as ferocious beasts that represent the evils humans have battled. Asians on the other hand believe that the creatures are friendly, and ensure good luck and wealth. According to some medieval legends, dragons lived in wild, remote regions across the world. The dragons were thought to be guarding treasures in their dens, for which the slayers would ravage. In China, a traditional new year's day parade includes a group of people who would travel down the streets wearing a large dragon costume. The dragons image, according to ancient Chinese belief, will prevent evil spirits from spoiling the up coming year. Another Chinese belief is that certain dragons posses the power to control the rainfall required for the years harvest.
However dragons are something else. They are admirable, intelligent, and an educated creature, who leads a most interesting life. He has some fascinating characteristics in addition to those occasional glimpses we are given through fairy tails and legends. In the world of fantastic animals, the dragon is unique. No other creature has appeared in such a rich variety of forms. It is as though there was once a whole family of different dragon species that really existed, before they mysteriously became extinct. As recently as the seventeenth century, scholars wrote of dragons as though they were scientific facts, their anatomy and natural history being recorded in painstaking detail. The naturalist Edward Topsell, for instance, writing in 1608, considered the dragon species to be related to reptiles and serpents. "Dragons were a very diverse species, distinguished by parts of the earth, and partly by the quantity and magnitude of the species, as well as the difference in their external parts."
Personifications of malevolence of beneficence, paganism or purity, death or devastation, life and fertility, and good and evil. All of these characteristics varied from dragon to dragon, Contradictory concepts are embodied and embedded within the dragon. The dragon has always been slandered, misjudged, persecuted, and hunted by humans simply because they are different. Like so many other living things, dragons have experienced death and torment in the name of superiority of humans. Humans have only just started to learn about the animal species whom were destroyed. It is too late to replace the dragons, but hopefully the species of dragons will one day re-populate. Lets just hope no more unique animals such as the mighty dragon will suffer the same future.
Demographics/Psychographics
Dragons tend to be loners by nature or by obligation, we can say without a big inaccuracy that dragons on earth did not have a very large population. Not too many people had ever seen a dragon. Dragons pass there time alone in their dens, during this time they learn about there environment and how to use it wisely. Because dragons are alone a great deal of there lives, most enjoy company of other dragons and even some humans as long as they did not come in conquest of it's riches. It may be possible that dragons had some sort of council lead by a dragon elder, but that is left as speculation.
Dragons and Mankind
Throughout history dragons and humans have been unable to live peacefully side by side. As a result, mankind has not been able to benefit from ancient dragon knowledge. Man's craving for power and religious beliefs have kept the world engulfed in bloody struggles. The dragon lords could not understand the reasons for man's self-destructive behavior, and kept well out of the way, retreating to remote hiding places far from all this confusion.
Shrouded in mystery, the dragon trails remained lost in the obscurity of legends. However, the dragons secretly pursued their quest for knowledge without completely excluding the human race, since they accepted and taught those few men who sought the essence of the truth.
We could wonder what would happen if the dragons reveal themselves to the eyes of mankind, Would we be able to accept another form of intelligence, and would we fight the creature. Still, many people believe we have not totally destroyed all the remains of the dragons.
