Dire Dragon: do they exist in any setting? if not, why not? how would you justify an ancient prehistoric dragon?

Dire Dragon: do they exist in any setting? if not, why not? how would you justify an ancient prehistoric dragon?

well, they do now

They did in Dark Souls. Just were called everlasting dragons and the first thing that happened is that they were all super murdered to death.

>Dire Dragon: do they exist in any setting?
Effectively yes.
Although they're not often referred to as such.

>why not?
When huge, ancient, and powerful are already descriptors included in the standard compliment, then dire really just means dire-er and seems unnecessary.

>how would you justify an ancient prehistoric dragon?
Simple: Old badass dragon didn't die. Done.
Maybe he'll was sleeping and a mountain range formed over him.

I like how the only dragons in dark souls were fucking weirdos from before time itself because I don't consider 2 and 3 canon

I can understand 2 but how 3? Literally you go back to every place in the other two games.

And we got some damn good boss fights out of it to top it off.

IK does this too. Dragons in that are just heart-sized, sentient stones that build their reptilian bodies around themselves and emit a mixture of lethal radiation and reality-warping mutation that slowly turns anywhere they choose to stay into a shithole.

And they're all shards of the big daddy stone, I guess.

Choosing to omit from canon is still just headcanon, you don't have to feel shameful of headcanon. Hell, it's the main way to consume the Start Wars universe, nobody is full canon with that. And that honestly isn't a slight on canon or people's headcanon, it's a legit way of enjoying a setting.

Don't trip on not liking part of canon, it's totally fine.

What about the Dire Dire Dragons? I heard they are even more ancient and more prehistoric.

Gaping a cute.

Priscilla is fine too, shame she didn't have Covenant.

I always just used Fang Dragons as the equivalent of a Dire Dragon. They're big, angry, spikey, and are basically walking piles of magic resist and raw damage.
Seemed pretty Dire to me.

posting big ass dragons.

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The Gods created Dragons as living war machines, because the only way something like a dragon would exist is because someone was trying to make the most badass thing they could think of.

They mostly died in whatever conflict they were created in? Their descendants being lesser dragons. A few survived and wander aimlessly.

>do they exist in any setting?
No, such a thing has never been done before. Quickly go out and make sure everyone knows that you thought of something for the first time ever!

Fa/tg/uys, remind yourselves that these things need to eat and breathe. There's a good reason why the largest confirmed dinosaur and living animal today is only 10m tall and 30 long. The dinosaur is theorised to be incapable of anything other than walking at a slow pace, and the blue whale's only prey is basically krill in order to satisfy its caloric needs by feeding all day long at a sedate pace because actively chasing shit is out of the question.

It feeds on magic and has brains in every limb to coordinate movement. Bam dragons solved