Kirins should be considered a dragon subespecies or a entirely

>>53048091
A kirin should be a kind of celestial. They're not really similar to dragons.

>>53048091
Are unicorns considered a dragon subspecies?

>>53048091
They should be considered as shit. Because they are shit.

>>53048091
Kirins belong to the same category as chimeras and/or unicorns. Give it the name you prefer.

Nothing to do with dragons. Although chinese "dragons" barely belong to the category themselves.

>>53048159
Yeah, I'd start with a Unicorn chassis.

>>53048159
Why they are called "chinese unicorns" when in most ancient images they have pair of antlers?

>>53048091
They fall under Chimera

>>53048219
Because the Chinese can't do anything right.

>>53048091
Magical giraffes.

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>>53048264
Okapis looks more like Kirins than giraffes tho, too bad that chinese dude didn't found one of these when he went to africa

>>53048091
>or a entirely diferent being?

I'd put Kirin in the same "family" as Unicorns & Pegasi- maybe call them the "Scaled Horses" or something.

Think of it as the level of deviation we see in the Bovidae family, where: cattle, goats, antelopes, and sheep are all cut from the same cloth.

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>>53048633

Now that I'm thinking of it. I might actually use this to catagorize and include other monsters such as the Catoblepas and the Questing beast- whom I've been meaning to include in my work for a while now but have been lacking a good naturalized reason for.

So, yeah, Scaled Horses: Unicorn, Kirin, Pegasus, Catoblepas, and Questing Beast- all related to one another, but in the same way a sheep is related to an antelope or cow.

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>>53048091
Monster Hunter classifies them as Elder Dragons, but that's not a great example because they also put two sand whales and a necrophiliac octopus in the same category.

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>>53048775
In Monster Hunter Elder Dragons are just a catchall for monsters that don't fit in any of the other categories rather than a specific type of dragon.

>>53048721
Unicorns and pegasi don't have scales.

>>53048159
>>53048207
Figures. Unicorns are really just fancy horses, and horses are related to reptiles because they also have cloaca.

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>>53051109
>pegasi don't have scales

Aren't feathers made out of scales?

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>>53048633
>>53048721

Ya forgot hippocampi

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>>53048091

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>>53055116

>>53048159
They are the offspring of rhinos and horses

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It's a complicated family

>>53051552
In much the same way that you're made out of your grandparents

>>53055531

Source?
Looks neat- love this sort of thing.

>>53055618
@drakthug on Twitter

>>53056001
>@drakthug on Twitter

Thanks, anon.
I know of and dislike this artist, but still a pretty neato dragon graph.

>>53055116
They seem closer to Kelpie and other water horses.