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I'm not expecting Bethesda to do this, im just making an awareness/suggestion thread. Would be awesome if they did though.

Well, i was wondering if there would only be Wyverns in the game? Fighting dragons is really cool, but i'd like to have a variety of dragon types instead of just only fighting winged dragons.

Like maybe for example, a dragon that can pop out the ground at random and try to attack you, like in just a quiet tundra, and suddenly a really big and long dragon pops out the ground, making a sudden loud noise to make you jump upon coming out the ground (in other words, scaring you). I would LOVE that.
It would be more like a ground type dragon, that can maneuver underground (not a reference from Runescape's "Strykewyrms", these type of dragons have been used in some games well before all that).
It might be a dumb idea to you, but it's just wishful thinking.

"What if my health is low when wandering around in a tundra or something?"
~I think this would go by checking your level of health and game difficulties, but not coming out unless you have 30% health or higher, therefore also making the dragon take massive amount of damage on you, and reduced damage when you attack when on the hardest difficulty.

If Bethesda already mentioned about what dragon types there are, i couldn't find a scrap of articles on dragon types, so sorry if i didn't look hard enough.

The main dragon in the first "gameplay" trailer isn't a wyvern so... yeah there would be.

How is it not a wyvern?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern

Trust me, it's a Wyvern lol.

Wyvern are neraly dragons, it's like nords not being humans. They aren't but they are, if you know what I mean.

Different types of dragons is always welcome, I hope there are underwater dragons too.

Different types of dragons were already alluded to in a vid, I believe, and it was confirmed by Todd that different dragons may have unique abilities with magic based on the dragon language. Whether or not that is in any way determined by what kind they are isn't clear yet.. Different colors too, based on the OXM article involving "an enormous, dark gray dragon." The distinction made because the trailer and all other media released so far appears to show a brown-scaled dragon.

I'm sure the variety will be welcome, and facing the dragons will of course be awesome.

Well the dragon in the trailer didn't have a barbed tail.

Maybe Skyrim's dragons just don't have the two arms. There are plenty of fantasy sources that decided to have their dragons have wings rather than arms, instead of having wings and arms, because wings on a creature like that ARE arms, so to be physiologically realistic (yes, I know, it's fantasy) it's weird to give them six appendages like a bug.

Anyway no arms does not automatically mean Wyvern. A Wyvern is a very specific mythological entity. So, more than likely, if the dragon has wings in Skyrim it's not going to have arms. Maybe there will be ground and aquaitc varieties? Who knows?

Well
Arena
http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/gallery_files/arena_shot03.gif
Daggerfall
http://www.uesp.net/image.shtml?dagger/images/dragon.gif
http://images.uesp.net//5/54/DaggerfallDragonling.gif

You mean like Dirge in Shadow Of The Colossus?

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090322000036/shadowofcolossus/images/d/df/274257-sandsnakeyh8_large.jpg

Okay, fair enough, it doesn't have a barbed tail. Though that is an extremely minute feature, and many mythological creatures vary widely in depiction. Many, many texts I've encountered refer to 2-legged, 2 winged dragons as Wyverns, regardless of tail appearance. I'd say in the modern sense of the term it's a reasonable label. Like how the original vampires were purple and bloated, not pale and daunting, but we can still call a pale, daunting, bloodsvcking magical creature a vampire.

The dragons in skyrim arent wyverns, wyverns cannot breath fire. The dragons in skyrim are just plain old fasioned classic dragons, nothing more, nothing less

I really can't tell if the dragons in those pictures have two or four legs.
EDIT: Oh nevermind, the second image link *finally* loaded, it has a 'clearer' view of the two frontal legs.

Crap! How have I not noticed that!

I've never heard that wyverns can not breathe fire. Also, neither wyverns nor classical dragons can use dragon shouts in the ancient language of Skyrim to produce bizzare effects.

So Wyverns are just dragons that have their wings attached to their arm?

I'm confused...

That seems to be how they've been defined in much recently. The wikipedia page just says it is a "winged reptilian creature with a dragon's head, the hindquarters of a snake or lizard with two legs or none, and a barbed tail". So besides the barbed tail it is close to the traditional meaning. There isn't much detailed info on it, seems more of a generic idea.

But even if you don't like using the term wyvern for this, doesn't matter. The thread is about "will there be any dragons who are not like this 2 legged, winged one that flies and breathes fire".

I think there will be.

Dragons are like lizards with wings, wyverns are pterodactyls. I can't explain it in a worse way.

Get playing Monster Hunter that gives you a good idea about what Wyverns are.

I would like dragons based from Dungeons and Dragons... specifically Dragonlance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_dragon_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_dragon_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)

Different types have different sizes, personalities and breath weapons.
Reds are HUGE evil dragons with a fire breath weapon.
Greens are large evil dragons that dislike physically fighting, preferring to use their magic and poison gas breath weapon.

I want wyrms. Cunning, greedy, mean wyrms. Like Smaug. ^_^

I just thought all elder scrolls dragons don't have arms. Like Akatosh didn't have arms at the end of oblivion, but they always call him a dragon?

The wing is a modified hand.

Dragons with four legs and two wings have a total of six limbs. I have yet to see a vertebrate non-aquatic TES creature with 6 limbs.

Dragons in TES are the physical manifestation of the et'ada (unless I'm mistaken). I think it would be silly to see the DnD rainbow palette of elemental-themed dragons.

The dragon in the trailer have wings as arms, 2 legs and a barbed tail. A wyvern

Well, it doesn't have a barbed tail, actually, the tail never hooks back, it's just a kite shape.

Anyone seen Dragonslayer? That just has two legs and two wings. Not a wyvern.