Premise idea 2: World with dragons

 - A place where dragons make up a large place of the ecosystem, ranging from small insect like dragons to sentient, highly intelligent dragons that are a part of society. 

Dragons are split into 3 catagories:

- wild: self explanatory, animalistic dragons that make up parts of the ecosytem, predators and prey. Not as intelligent as other species dragon species, and regarded as untamable. 

- Domesticated: the equivalent of domesticated animals (and dragons that are capable of building complex relationships with humans, not neccesarily pets) regarded as quite intellegient, same levels as dogs, cats, birds, horses etc.

- Apex: Apex dragons are at the same level of, and sometimes higher levels of intellegience as humans. Intergrated into society, taking on roles like humans would (Cooks, Librarians, builders, etc.). They view lower catagories of dragons similar to how humans view species of monkey and ape.


- architecture replicates the different sizes of dragons, having much higher entry ways and ceilings for buildings where dragons enter.

- set in a high fantasy setting; advanced medieval architecture with art noveau and art deco inspiration. Technology is more suited to this world, focusing more on dragons, such as vehicles being mainly powered by dragons - Dragon 'planes' - big dragons with blimp like undercarriages 

- dragons would be inspired by real life reptiles and other animals, and dragon myths from around the world, but would be uniquely designed by me

Early concept art idea: Librarian dragon, who's hoard is the large stash of books in the Library



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