I think the drake pictured is in a resting position and does not actually walk like that, but I'm too lazy to load up a save and go drake hunting to verify.Filament wrote...
I guess that could make sense... though the drake shown above appears to be walking on its front elbows, while its hands still appear capable of grabbing as opposed to being fused into a solid foot.Conduit0 wrote...
The front paws metamorphosize from grasping hands into walking feet. Think of it like the difference between a monkey's foot thats designed for grasping branches and climbing through trees, to a human foot suited for walking on solid ground.Filament wrote...
I don't understand why they would unlearn the use of their front paws if they learned it during their flightless dragonling years and nothing physiologically changed preventing them from using their front paws upon reaching drake-hood. Unless you are proposing that those vestigial spikes they develop on their elbows and shoulders limit motion.
Kind of strange how its hinds legs are digitigrade while its front legs are.. elbow-igrade.. now that I think about it.
Where are all the damn dragons??
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#51
Posté 23 août 2011 - 06:32
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 06:40
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www.youtube.com/watch
Because it's 2:30 am and I'm bored out of my mind. 4:03 in they encounter the drakes and they appear to be walking fine for a quadraped reptilian, though they do move in a crouched position from the looks of it.
Because it's 2:30 am and I'm bored out of my mind. 4:03 in they encounter the drakes and they appear to be walking fine for a quadraped reptilian, though they do move in a crouched position from the looks of it.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 06:57
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Found some youtube footage here of the drake fight in DAO, you can see the drake movement clearly from 1.08, they also seem to have no problems using their paws to swipe...
Edit: Lol, looks like I was late to the party
Edit: Lol, looks like I was late to the party
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 07:12
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It almost sounds like drakes were originally going to have their forelimbs twist into vestigial wings.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 07:19
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Its possible that Drakes originally were going to have a pterosaur like design where its front legs used to be a pair of wings, but that idea was scrapped for the model we got and they simply forgot to update the Dragon codex to reflect the model change. Heh.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 07:22
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Conduit0 wrote...
Its possible that Drakes originally were going to have a pterosaur like design where its front legs used to be a pair of wings, but that idea was scrapped for the model we got and they simply forgot to update the Dragon codex to reflect the model change. Heh.
That is what it seems like. The drakes are really no different from the dragonlings other than size and those useless spikes.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 07:40
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I'm slightly shocked no one in Dragon Age Origins is treating the Dragons as an epidemic.
I mean come on. They only really stumbled upon and killed the High Dragon in DAO by chance. That must mean there must be plenty more high dragons roaming the place (there may be a few more in and around the Dragonbone pit, some in the mountains above Orzammar, maybe one or more in the Korcari wilds and possibly in hidden parts of the Deep roads)
And High Dragons create heaps of drakes and smaller dragons remember....
Soon there will be like WAY more high dragons in years to come unless they start up some sort of massive dragon hunt.
Also I believe that the Dragon Age/rise of the dragons has something to do with the overarching plot/a big subplot of the Dragon Age series.
EDITEDIT: When I said the dragonbone pit I meant that place in Ferelden. The place where the Mother is hiding/her lair.. With all the dragonbones.
However the bone pit and the Sundermount mountains may still hold dragons.
I mean come on. They only really stumbled upon and killed the High Dragon in DAO by chance. That must mean there must be plenty more high dragons roaming the place (there may be a few more in and around the Dragonbone pit, some in the mountains above Orzammar, maybe one or more in the Korcari wilds and possibly in hidden parts of the Deep roads)
And High Dragons create heaps of drakes and smaller dragons remember....
Soon there will be like WAY more high dragons in years to come unless they start up some sort of massive dragon hunt.
Also I believe that the Dragon Age/rise of the dragons has something to do with the overarching plot/a big subplot of the Dragon Age series.
EDITEDIT: When I said the dragonbone pit I meant that place in Ferelden. The place where the Mother is hiding/her lair.. With all the dragonbones.
However the bone pit and the Sundermount mountains may still hold dragons.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 07:54
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Well if what has been said is true you might not want to kill all the dragons....
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 01:50
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The Nevarrians had hunted the Dragons to near extinction, so it was assumed they were all extinct or had retreated to the unexplored regions of Thedas, until the High Dragon rampage that started the Dragon Age. So far, there have only been 2-3 High Dragons shown and slain. The one in the Frostback Mountains probably set her lair in the ruins and when it was discovered by the Dragon Cultists, she allowed them to stay because they would help protect and raise her young in exchange for dragon's blood.
During the previous dragon hunt, the rest of the dragons may have just gone into hiding, since they can probably survive in much higher altitudes and they've also proven they can roost and hide underground in locations like the Deep Roads, their numbers so small that any hunting by them probably went unseen. If the dragons are coming back in force, maybe larger numbers than previously thought of, the Nevvarians will probably start up another dragon hunt, or try to if nothing else goes wrong in Thedas.
During the previous dragon hunt, the rest of the dragons may have just gone into hiding, since they can probably survive in much higher altitudes and they've also proven they can roost and hide underground in locations like the Deep Roads, their numbers so small that any hunting by them probably went unseen. If the dragons are coming back in force, maybe larger numbers than previously thought of, the Nevvarians will probably start up another dragon hunt, or try to if nothing else goes wrong in Thedas.
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Posté 23 août 2011 - 10:13
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SkittlesKat96 wrote...
I'm slightly shocked no one in Dragon Age Origins is treating the Dragons as an epidemic.
I mean come on. They only really stumbled upon and killed the High Dragon in DAO by chance. That must mean there must be plenty more high dragons roaming the place (there may be a few more in and around the Dragonbone pit, some in the mountains above Orzammar, maybe one or more in the Korcari wilds and possibly in hidden parts of the Deep roads)
And High Dragons create heaps of drakes and smaller dragons remember....
Well remember the codex says that the bulk of baby dragons, don't make it to maturity, it didn't say why, but not many will survive apparently. And High Dragons are very rare and rarely show themselves, so I don't think anyone would treat it as an epidemic. The codex also says that people destroyed, potential nesting sites, ner their towns and such, so if their hiding on top of a mountain no one goes to, I don't think anyone cares if their up there.
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Posté 27 août 2011 - 11:59
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Well, Laidlaw has confirmed in the lastest Bioware Pulse Q&A that there is more in store for dragons and that there is indeed something fishy going on with their sudden resurgence.
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Posté 28 août 2011 - 12:48
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Blacklash93 wrote...
Well, Laidlaw has confirmed in the lastest Bioware Pulse Q&A that there is more in store for dragons and that there is indeed something fishy going on with their sudden resurgence.
Yay... on wait, why should I be happy about that? Oh ya, because I like dragons
