What if dragons were more like whales?

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>>54354840
>A pod of colossal filter feeding dragons descends on an area, sucking entire swathes of land clean of anything living as structures, people, animals, and trees are ripped from the ground and swept into the bristling mouths of the blubbery dragons.

>>54354840
So huge creatures that live by expending relatively little energy and constantly consuming abundant creatures with no defenses. You'd need your settings krill equivalent and I guess what their feeding method is. The main question though is why, it's a comparison which paints dragons being immpressive but largely passive enteties, which is fine but doesn't tend to make for interesting stories, hence why dragons tend to be greedy and destructive, that breeds inherent problems. I feel like this would make dragons into window-dressing as oppossed to things the players interact with.

>>54355271

What if you make dragons have something everyone wants. Special blood or somesuch.

The dragon whales could be largely passive until attacked?

>>54355271
>implying that players being dragon-whalers (dragoners?) whose dragoning dirigible gets essex'd couldn't work

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>>54354840
Why make dragons more like whales when you could make whales more like dragons?

>>54355271
He said "more" like whales, not "exactly" like whales. And more specifically, there's no need to make them like baleen whales in particular. Just going from OP's picture, the Draco-whale could be the prime natural predator of the mighty Kraken, and woe betide the unlucky mariner who finds himself among the leviathan clash.

>>54354840
So, like sauropods?

>>54354840
>it's raining
>wait, this rain tastes salty...
>look up
>GOD DAMN YOU SKY WHALE DRAGONS!!!
>STOP FUCKING OVER OUR CITIES!!!

>>54355610
>Salty rain
>spillage
>It's that season again

>>54355648
>It's that season again

The one that gets bloated by managerial indecision until the lead artist pulls the plug by leaving? That season?

>>54355532
>Whales attack merchant ships and horde their sunken gold.
>Eat the fish stocks of coastal villages that fail to offer a virgin periodically.
>Their bodies are a source of rare and valuable resources.

Might have potential.

>>54355731
I like this idea a lot. Throw in a mad dwarf who seeks revenge on the white dragon that took his leg and we're in business!

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>>54354840
they'd have badass great-grandparents

>>54355913
Spermwhales are still badass. They battle giant squids and have organic sonic blasters built into their faces.

>>54354840
You mean like Ancient Greece?

>>54355731
Isn't this basically what Dishonored did?

>>54356134
Maybe? I've never played it.
I was basically imagining the stereotypical intelligent treasure hording, village terrorizing kind of dragon but in whale shape.
I was under the impression that Dishonored's whales were more on the spooky mysterious side of things.

>>54356247
They are, yes. They're a kind of being that exists in several dimensions at the same time.
They're also described as fearsome predators so I'm not sure of where they stand

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>>54354840
>caravan gets stopped by a dragon
>it doesn't want anything, it was just curious because it hadn't seen one before

>wyvern rape caves

>>54356380
Thanks for summoning all the furfag yiffers out of the woordwork.

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>>54356134
No. There was a theory that the Outsider was a godlike whale akin to a leviathan, but that was debunked in Dishonored 2.

>>54355271
There's an interesting parallel; often dragons are depicted as being on the brink of being wiped out. Dragons are this magical creature that man's influence is taking away from the world.
ie whaling. The heroes aren't out to kill the dragons, they're trying to preserve the world's magic if anything.

And there's still the odd Moby Dick, which you could crank up to 11 because it's still a fucking DRAGON. A legendary one with so much fight in it that hunters who don't let that one be just get totally fucked.

>>54354840
God that would be fucking terrifying.
You're out snrokeling, then all of a sudden a bunch of fucking sperm whales just come out of nowhere all around you

>>54361462
It's not out of nowhere. That's the only creepy thing about it, they're totally still and upright. Like a giant meat room.

Dragonborn are banned from all competitive deep diving.

>>54355231

Terrifying. I like it.

>>54361585
They're sleeping.

>>54355731
Fun fact! Ancient Herbrew had a word, Tannyin, that could be translated as dragon or whale (or snake)

>>54364176
That is indeed a fun fact.