Talk:Chroma/Main/@comment-108.50.154.148-20150308173220/@comment-6271162-20150310045652

No, they are not.

The fundations of draconic legends can also be attributed to megalania and other species the human kind might have encountered during the early settlement stages. Also, all mammals do have innate fear of reptiles (except for a few highly specilized predators), which is a genetic heritage from the times around 100-65 millions of years ago when dinosaurs dominated the world and mammals were small and in constant fear of them.

While your tracing of the actualy word, "dragon", was correct, do not forget that there is more to the legends than just their name (which is actually of later origin than the legends themselves). So in the end, yes, dragons can really look pretty much anyhow a storyteller wishes.

Also, the criticism that Chroma does not look like a dragon is fairly misguided, since he does have design elements that reference Quetzacoatl and meso-american mythology and cosmogony in general (mostly because that is the central theme of the Sentients and Chroma is a part of the update they will arrive with). While Quetzalcoatl is not a dragon in the most modern, narrow meaning of the word (he would be rather classified as a serpent), he still posses some draconic traits and thereby can be considered a dragon at least partially.