Magnets, how the [censored] do they work?!?

It's not "wrong" to try to apply science to fantasy settings. You just have to take a look at the Argonians or Khajiit to see that biology is fantastical and crazy, but that doesn't mean that it isn't there. However, like with Khajiit (who are one of several different species depending on the phase of the moon when they're born) or Argonians (who are water-breathing, egg-laying, milk-producing lizards), some stuff is just fantastical. Do dragons use magic to fly? No, they just fly.

My guess is that they fly by shouting, their calls in the sky is possibly a type of shout that enables them to stay aloft [/blag]

Standard issue with dragons really. But I'm just happy because me boyhood gaming dreams of fighting a dragon is near realism graphics with a sword came true.

They fly by magic, much in the way the talk, by magic. go check the lore please.

It is quite good. It's actually extremely old too. When I was a kid (about 20 years ago) I checked out a book about dragons from my grade school library. It had the same theory about hydrochloric acid breaking down certain plants and limestone pebbles into hydrogen gas. By storing the gas and compressing it, "dragons" might have been able to adjust their relative buoyancy.

This is what happens when you give internet access to someone who.. really shouldn't have it.

:laugh:

Look at it this way. Dragons 'evolved' in a world where magic exists. They could have been intelligent lizards who learned levitation magic or even jump magic to help them get at prey. The wings are extra appendages - dragons came from a four-legged beast who kept all four legs and evolved two additional 'arms'. (Or perhaps the original forelegs developed into the wings and the forearms are the new arms? Hmmm...) At any rate, stir in extra mutations possible through magic, and dragons could exist today.

It is also quite possible that dragons also developed shield and resistance magic to counteract their weak, lightweight skeletons. You might think of magic as spells that are cast or powers used, but such magic that evolved into the creature is as automatic as breathing. They don't have to think about it - it's 'natural' in the world of magic.

This explains why dragons are so tough while they are alive - their magic sustains them. Once they are dead and that spark of magic dies, the are just as vulnerable as any other lizard.

Hope this helps!

Sus

What does this have to do with anything?


The weight of their bones is a game mechanic which allows you to carry them, while attempting to illustrate that they're heavy; it is not the basis upon which to build a hypothesis of flight.

Bees have resilin.

That's because they 'flap' their wings very fast, similar to a humming bird. Dragons do not.

You're seriously wondering how dragons can fly? If you are going into that, how can they breathe fire without dying? How can my character cast spells?

(sarcasm) None of them work in the real world, so they shouldn't be possible. :ahhh:

They speak magic, and these are lesser dragons. Like lesser deadra. I mean it's a complete non-issue, it's very likely they don't conform to the laws we do. We know form the Dwarves that there are different levels of existence and rules to govern them. Dragons are Aedra, like Deadra and thus of a certain degree "higher" within the cosmology. Or so goes my theory. The rules are literally different for them.

A 747 weighs about 900,000 pounds and can still fly.

It's all about aerodynamics, bra.

I saw a program in Animal Planet a long time ago.It said that dragons would fill their bodies with air to be able to fly.

With all the wind created when you absorb a dragon's soul, the soul could be what keeps them airborne. :shrug:

You don't need to flap your wings very fast to fly. Most birds glide most of the time, completely different at looking at insects, which are much harder to figure out. But we do now know its due to the incredible speeds they flap their wings, they also use the earths magnetic field to guide them around and locate their hive.

The problem with that comparison is that jet engines are an awful lot more efficient than musculature.. magic is the only way to go on this one, unless you agree with the Dragon zephyr theory.

Thanks for that. My brain hurt after reading that other post.

False. Science found out long ago how wasps and bees fly with physics.
The whole 'Bees should not be able to fly' is a long-standing myth.

Jets need fuel to work.

Wings don't.

How is that more efficient?

Fail thread, let this die.

Some time ago,, Discovery Channel showed a documentary about the Science behind the Dragons..

Here is something about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3pbBKiGGts

Imma let you finish but Dragons are not REAL, therefore they can go around breaking the laws of physics, with Einstein not even stirring in his grave.

Don't mean to be a bionerd here, but wings require ATP for fuel as well as Sodium and Potassium for synaptic functions