Questions tagged [dragons]
Dragons are mythical beasts. Dragonlore varies from culture to culture and from tale to tale. If asking about dragons in a specific work always use alongside the work tag. Do not use if the question simply mentions dragons. Also use alongside [story-identification] if looking to identify a story where dragons were prominent.
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Trying to find a book with space dragons, genetically modified humans and a dual universe
When I was younger I read this Sci fi book from the library with a green hardcover surface. I remember there was an antagonist that was a human who had improved his physical abilities with Orangutan ...
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Medieval fantasy book about a boy who finds a rock in a cave or something like that. He keeps it in his pocket 24/7 and it hatches into a dragon
Okay so I read this book, I'm pretty sure it was a book series as well, in 6th grade, so late 2010s.
What I can remember is that this boy (I think?) -- it's set in more of a medieval fantasy type ...
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Paperback novel featuring a dragon shapeshifter, with three characters on the cover, including a princess on a throne
I'm looking for a book I read while incarcerated. It's a paperback novel, a little older. On the cover, it has a princess on the throne, her dark haired female warrior and sidekick male dragon.
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What is the movie where a crusader comes home and wants to become a farmer must rescue a princess who is protecting a dragon's egg?
The movie I am looking for is a fantasy movie where at the beginning of the movie you see a dragon kidnap the princess.
You then see a knight come home from the crusades. I believe it takes place in ...
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Manga where a dragon dies and reincarnates as a human villager
The manga is like a dragon dies and reincarnates or is reborn as a human who is a villager, which has some or all of his dragon powers. I don't remember much of what happened in it, but I know that ...
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How long did Saphira stay in her egg from the day it was laid by her mother?
How long did Saphira stay in her egg from the day it was laid by her mother?
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Book about a boy who finds an infant dragon
This story had a modern (late 90s, early 2000s) setting. A boy worked at a zoo/sanctuary for dragons in a world where dragons were a real, exotic animal and not a fantastical creature. He ventures ...
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Manga where the mc is reincarnated to another world, and is accidentally transported into a nest of dragons
I'm looking for a black & white manga where the main character is reincarnated to another world, and is accidently sent into a nest of dragons, where he becomes overpowered while killing them all. ...
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I thought it was called Dragon's Keep, but I can't find it [duplicate]
I've been trying to figure out the name of this book I once read. This is what I remember about it
a village is attacked
the main character and her brother escape
they travel for sometime until they ...
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Anime or cartoon about a dragon who falls under a spell to steal gold from banks
Anime or cartoon about a dragon who falls under a spell to steal gold from banks. These kids help stop bad guys and the dragon sends the bad guys to a magic jail. I think one of the girls falls in ...
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Manga with the main character being given the power to slay dragons by his future self
The main character at the beginning is very weak but his future self comes back and gives him the power to slay dragons. In the beginning his friend, who is a girl, is a hero who is very good at ...
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Episode of "The Familiar of Zero" where Saito feeds Tabitha's dragon again
I've forgotten which episode of The Familiar of Zero Saito feeds Tabitha's dragon again in. Because it's been a long since I last watched it, and I don't remember the scene.
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Book series about a young boy who lives with dragons
From what I remember, the main character is a young boy who goes to live with his dad who lives in a rundown mansion or something similar. When he gets there, he explores a bit and finds out about ...
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Manga where the hero is sent back in time by a dragon
He and the dragon that sent him back him then work together to kill the dragon king or something like that. In the new timeline, the dragon that sent him back does not initially know him, but the hero ...
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Cartoon about a boy who can create portals, and whose parents may have been dragons
The cartoon had a boy that could create portals, and if I remember correctly his parents were dragons. One of the main characters died, and later they found out he wasn't dead. Then they found his ...
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Book set in a time of dragons featuring a boy and his dragon saving their homeland from weird monsters [duplicate]
I have been trying to remember the title of a book I read like a year ago. It is based in a time of dragons and the two main characters in the book is a boy and a dragon. The boy and dragon are ...
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Which was the first fantasy story to feature human-dragon hybrids?
I was watching Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (2013) and a character in there is said to be a Dragonoid, the offspring of a human and a dragon. Then I remembered Dragon Quest (2020) also features a ...
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Young adult book about siblings with powers and dragons [duplicate]
I'm looking for the name of a young adult book I read maybe twenty years ago about a girl and her younger brother hiding out in a castle with a secretive owner.
Both siblings have some sort of power, ...
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Is the dragon consumed by Doctor Strange in "What If...?" S01E04 the same as the one seen in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"...?
In the fourth episode of Marvel's What If...? series, an alternate version of Doctor Steven Strange learns that he must consume mystic beings in order to reverse an absolute point in time in his ...
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A nineties/possibly early 2000s Fantasy series
Cannot for the life of me think of the name of what I’m pretty sure was a three book series, here’s what I can remember:
There’s a barbarian invasion of some more civilised nations, a few of the ...
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Trying to find a short story where a dragon is impersonating a wizard
I just remembered a memory of a short story I read back in middle school.
From what I remember, the story starts off with the 'wizard' blowing smoke into the sky as he looks down on the local village ...
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Book where a black dragon falls for a red-headed human girl, after she is almost killed while running away from her evil brother's men
I am looking for book that has a black dragon falling for a red-headed human girl, after she is almost killed while running away from her evil brother's men, who want to marry her off to the enemy. It ...
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Do the dragons in Game of Thrones have a limited number of fire breaths?
I was watching "The Long Night" and in the scene where the good team was looking out for Dany and Drogon to light up the trenches (but she was trapped in snowstorm), while Jon and Rhaegal ...
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The name of the book/series that had dragons coming back to the world
I am trying to find the name of this book. The ending went something like this -
The dragons have now come back. One of the dragons comes and lays her head on the fireplace of the main heroine. But ...
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Manga where the guy’s fiancée goes out with the hero. He sadly isolates himself in the forest, which is the most dangerous place
I'm looking for a manga where the main character goes to the super dangerous forest when his fiancée goes with the hero. In this forest he almost dies, but is saved by the status card that has a ...
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Fantasy book, quest to find gods but they are evil
Book is about the lost gods and for most of the book you want the gods to come back. Along the way there are reptilian people who are trying to help the gods return and you learn that the gods weren’t ...
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Book about a boy who moves to Europe, climbs a wall with one of his friends (who turns out to be a troll), and finds dragon eggs
There was a book I read in middle school about a boy who moves to Europe and moves in with his elders. While there, he finds a stone building in the back; after climbing the wall with one of his ...
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Book about a boy who accidentally hatches dragons at his grandparents' estate
I read a book in 2017, I think; it was about a boy who, for the summer had to go to his grandparents estate in the forest.
I remember it was huge with gargoyles on the front gate. He finds a really ...
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Cartoon movie. Something about an anime/game character coming to real life. He used cards to summon dragons or something
I remember watching it in the early 2010s. From what I remember, the protagonist was very energetic and had spiky hair, probably red, and also a sword nail. He was welcomed by a family, as if he were ...
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Movie in which two men ask a dragon three questions
I'm trying to remember the name of a movie in which two young men ask a dragon three questions. I remember that one of the men asks the dragon, "Don't we get three questions?" The dragon ...
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Fantasy novel (series?) involving hibernating dragons who are harvested and a woman in a loveless marriage because her husband is secretly gay
I read this about two years ago, I think. I think the novel opens with the scene where the dragons are sinking into swamp to hibernate until it's time (until the magic returns, maybe?). Some time ...
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Short story about a library that was a dragon hoard
I think this may have been part of an anthology, as it seems like the story was short. I used to read anthologies like "Sword and Sorceress", so it may have been in something like that.
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YA fantasy novel about woman seeking revenge on her accuser with the aid of a shapeshifting dragon [duplicate]
I read this book back in middle school, but cannot remember the title. It was a great story, but I can't seem to find it.
The book begins with a woman falsely accused of witchcraft by her neighbor. ...
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Looking for a book about talking dragons with no humans
When I was a kid I remember going to a relative's house and reading the beginning of a book about warring factions of Dragons. I was not able to finish before the weekend visit was over. I've never ...
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Book series: last dragon, transformed to a human by a wizard, falls in love with an elf
I remember the book (series) starting off with the slaying of an ice dragon, which is the second to last dragon left. The actual last dragon is friends with a wizard, who turns the dragon into a ...
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Book about dragons hiding in human society
looking for a book about dragons that could disguise themselves as humans.
I read this around 2012-2014. It was a YA thing iirc, the story started with an orphan (?) who was adopted by a guy trying to ...
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Fantasy book about about a town where some people had “dragon powers”
I believe it was a book about a town where some people had “dragon powers”. Our main character and his brother both get these powers after laying in the sun too long or something. The powers included ...
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Book where the main character trapped in a well has dragon blood dripping onto him and he slowly turns into one
Looking for a particular book. I read it almost 10 years ago.
The main character gets trapped in a (well?) and dragon’s blood drips onto him. The blood slowly turns him into a dragon (Or gives him ...
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Fantasy book about a group hunting down a dragon
This was a fantasy book I was reading in the fifth grade in the mid 2000’s
Protagonist of the story was a young boy whose town was attack by a dragon. The boy joined a group of four or five other ...
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identify humorous short story about spicy pizza defeating a dragon
I recall reading this in a collection of short fantasy (possibly sci-fi and fantasy) in a library circa 1990. In the story a man goes off to fight a dragon. I don't recall the exact details but I ...
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Novel where a girl, Sre, hatches a dragon, Blue, to defend her from an innkeeper
I need help to find a book I read years ago on an adult website.
The author had a group on Facebook and kept us updated on her stories. Eventually she got a publisher and even showed us what she ...
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An older fantasy book about a primitive girl who lived with dragons
In the 90s I read a 3 book series about a girl who lived with or was close with dragons. They lived in a desert like environment with the dragons having a clan like social structure. The girl had ...
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Book series with a shape shifting dragon girl [duplicate]
Does anyone know the name of the book series about a girl who finds out she can turn into a dragon and has to learn how to? She falls in love with a human guy who is fine with her being a dragon and ...
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Demon's Soul - Where is the tutorial level, and are there two Gods?
Deep under the Stonefang Tunels, past the hall of the Firelurker, the Dragon God awaits in a deep cave for someone to face the fury of their fists.... or to turn them in a dragon kebab using the two ...
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What's the origin of the trope that dragons used to be common but aren't any more?
It's common in fantasy stories for dragons to be formerly common but rare or extinct by the time of the story, for example, in Discworld, Game of Thrones, and perhaps The Hobbit (I can't recall enough ...
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90's (?) fantasy novel where character uses blue ley lines to transform into dragon
I remember at some time in the mid-90's getting a book from my local library where part of the story was a young person, (possibly teens, and I think male), being taught by an elder (maybe human, ...
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Why don't dragons walk like other lizards? [closed]
I just occurred to me that, in all fiction that I can think of, dragons don't move like other lizards. I want to clarify that I'm talking about more traditional 4-legged dragons and not 2-legged ones (...
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SF story about crocodiles being dragons [duplicate]
Decades ago I read a short story about a scientist who had a theory that crocodiles were dragons, but stuck in the pre-flight, pre-flame stage.
He experimented, and finally produced a method of ...
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Recent book about a disease that turns people into half-dragons
I remember someone telling me about a book but I can't remember who it was to ask them the name, so I'm hoping someone could identify it.
It's a relatively recent book, since they bought it last ...
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Fantasy trilogy from the 90s where guy starts out as the only person dragons are afraid of, and by the third book he turns into a dragon
I'm pretty sure it was under one of those banners like D&D or similar. And I remember an early scene in the first book where the guy has to ride a horse and gets incredibly saddlesore to the ...
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