Simple dragons are just snakes with bowel obstructions so the pigeon they ate fermented and then a peasant stepped on it at night (so they were carrying a torch) and it popped and the fumes made a teensy boom. That’s how people invented dragons ipso facto oceans 11s razor.
First iteration of the myth was rats but then I remembered dragons have wings and they (peasants) probably got scared by the pop, came back a year later and found the pigeon wings in the snake skeleton. Rats got no wings.
Are we talking magic wielding fully sentient dragons (forgotten realms style) or animal like simple dragons? The first type could keep humans as pets.
Simple dragons are just snakes with bowel obstructions so the pigeon they ate fermented and then a peasant stepped on it at night (so they were carrying a torch) and it popped and the fumes made a teensy boom. That’s how people invented dragons ipso facto oceans 11s razor.
LOL. That way pretty brutal. 🤣
First iteration of the myth was rats but then I remembered dragons have wings and they (peasants) probably got scared by the pop, came back a year later and found the pigeon wings in the snake skeleton. Rats got no wings.