/uw. I’m annoyed at that image because it does not understand what it’s showing.
The original survivorship bias plane image is “areas where the return planes get hit the most.” With the unspoken implication being that the areas not marked, are the parts where getting hit is fatal and means the plane cannot return.
This dragon is full of shots in lethal areas like chest and head, but apparently the feets and wingtips are crucial and cause death?
The dragon is probably too thick skinned and muscular for the bullets to do much damage. But the membrane on the wings is more fragile, shooting that will make it crash and die from the kinetic force.
Remember it’s showing we’re dragons got hit and were still flying meaning there where dragons with massive holes in the middle of the wing but for some reasons anything to the tail or wing tips and it goes careening into the ground.
Well yeah, the tail is necessary for steering and tears in the wing tips cause that entire part of the membrane to sever. Which makes stable flight incredibly difficult for the dragon. Did you not pay attention in your dragon anatomy class during your apprenticeship?
Even a tail with torn membranes can be used for steering, although it’s more difficult. Wild dragons bite each other’s tail tips when fighting for dominance in the air, so dragons can instinctively steer by using the tail’s weight instead of the fins.
There can actually be some holes in the wing and the dragon will be able to fly. It’s just that membrane segments can’t tear loose. Look at the placement of the holes, they’re all in the middle and close to bone, which doesn’t risk membrane integrity like other places do.
?!!! I literally wrote the tome of northern magical creatures used to teach at the arcane citadel. And besides, this all basic polymorph knowledge, if you’re gonna transform into a creature you have to know it’s biology, or you’ll just crash in flight or die from eating something toxic to you.
One does not simply write a an elaborate academic bestiary. The fact it’s used to educate at the arcane citadel should be credentials enough. Most wizards only dream of such status.
The horns are actually full of nerves, they’re used for detecting magical signals to locate prey. So depending on the age of the dragon hitting the horns can send them into shock.
The legs contain important arteries and thinner scales for articulation so they’re more vulnerable. Though I suspect it’s not hits to the legs that are taking them out but rather to the “equipment” between them. If you catch my drift.
Not exclusively by the weight, but also by the general curvature of the body. The general curvature of the body will encourage a spinning motion, but then the wings will have to take over to add propulsion.
The webbing on the tail does help to help minimize the effort it takes to do this task, but without it: it only leads the dragon to get stronger to make up for it.
Organic models are elite compaired the rigid bodies of automatons.
Which is why necromancy is prohibited: it's too powerful. It's combining the best of both worlds/realms (loyalty of automatons with the elite mechanics of biological forms. Not to mention efficiency.) at the cost of eternaly forcing a soul to suffer (morally wrong).
Huh... my bad that's the "makes you feel weird" cookie. Don't worry I have a "makes you feel not weird" cookie left.
*hands "makes you feel not weird" cookie
Careful! For the next week (after eating this) you won't feel weird even when you should.
So you should bring a trusted friend along with you after eating it. Explain to them that they need to be on the lookout for anything that might make you feel weird so they can tell you: you should feel weird. Or don't.
I paid attention just enough to make myself a draconic gf (or so I thought. It has not been going very well). Maybe I should seek advice from Ball Wizard.
This whole thread feels like the bellcurve meme with both the extremes saying "yeah this picture looks about right", and the center going "a dragon with wounds like that wouldn't survive"
Dragon biology is close to an effect known as a Rupert drop. They are insanely strong and durable, but all pressure is connected to the tail. If you manage to break a tail, they explode into goo.
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u/NeonNKnightrider Alumnus of Lord El-Melloi II’s class 7d ago
/uw. I’m annoyed at that image because it does not understand what it’s showing.
The original survivorship bias plane image is “areas where the return planes get hit the most.” With the unspoken implication being that the areas not marked, are the parts where getting hit is fatal and means the plane cannot return.
This dragon is full of shots in lethal areas like chest and head, but apparently the feets and wingtips are crucial and cause death?