I'm ADHD (a random book)

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If you guys didn't know I'm a huge science nerd. Specifically Zoology, but I do love space and rocks. I really love rocks.

But I really love learning about animals and adaptations they have for certain environments and evolution and all that stuff.

I'm majoring in zoology this year btw.

So I decided to rank the Wings of Fire dragon tribes (not the Pantala ones because they don't really have very good designs when it comes to habitat survival traits) by size according to where they live, their strengths, and their lifestyles. And I'm not researching any of this so my assumptions could be completely wrong. I'm just using things I know about real animals and habitats and my own logic.

So yeah this is just a dumb brain exercise for me.

I will go smallest to biggest, and this is just overall size, not strength or wing size or any of that (otherwise skywings would be the biggest). So let's begin!

The smallest are Sandwings. They just are. They live in a very harsh environment with not a lot of food or water and no need to be super big. Sunny is unusually small for a Sandwing, so that makes her absolutely tiny. The Sandwing royal sisters are so big that they are royalty and have probably ate better than the majority of sandwings. So Sandwings in positions of power tend to be bigger than the normal Sandwings, but overall Sandwings are the smallest tribe on Pyrrhia. My examples for this is just the fact that you don't see any super large animals in Sandy deserts.

They second smallest are rainwings. They live in a tightly packed rainforest where being very large would probably be a hindrance. They do have an overabundance of food though, so they're not miniscule. I don't really have a specific real life example for this, just my logic.

The third smallest are nightwings. I feel like they were bigger at one point, but because they were living in the volcano with little food for a while, they slowly got smaller. Honestly a lot of people say Skywings are the average dragon that everyone would think about when you say dragon but I think Nightwings are the average ones. They don't have massive wings and they're not super strong or anything. They're just average. They'll get a bit bigger the longer they live in the rainforest with more food, but for the same reason as Rainwings they won't get as big as they once were.

The in the middle sized tribe is the Icewings. They have large wide open spaces so they have no reason to be small and while you'd think they wouldn't have a lot of food the circles hierarchy probably doesn't let any dragon starve, and any commoners outside the circles have those animus enchanted seal holes that never run out of food. Then royalty and the top circle dragons most definitely are the biggest of the icewings, but overall they're fairly large. My example for this was a polar bear.

The third largest are the Skywings. I'm sort of not counting their wings because those are just massive. Skywings live high up on mountain tops with lots of prey. So they're pretty large even without their wings. They're not the biggest though. My example was kind of how some of the larger birds of prey live in the mountains. A little bit of a stretch, but hey they've been described as large in the books too so eh.

The second largest are Mudwings. Betcha didn't see that coming! While they are super strong tanks I don't think they're the biggest. They have lots of food in their swamp/marsh habitat so they can get very massive. But I don't think they're the biggest. My example are alligators and crocodiles.

And the largest dragons overall on Pyrrhia is *drumroll* Seawings! They live in the ocean, which is huge, and they have a ton of food. So many fish. I really don't think any Seawings are going hungry, even the lowest commoners. They're short because they have more torpedo shapes bodies with shorter legs, but they're big. My example is the fact that the largest animal ever to live in the earth lives in the ocean. So yeah.

If course there will be exceptions, some dragons will just be genetically bigger or smaller than the average, and of course dragons continue to grow as they age so the older the dragon the bigger they are. But yeah, this is just a boredom exercise that is now my personal headcanon.

I have a bunch of other ranking Headcanons like ear size, horn size, longness, how short their legs are, etc. I also just have Headcanons about their claw shapes and wing shapes. If you guys are interested I could do chapters on these.

So yeah comment if you're interested.

If nobody comments I might just do a few of them anyway if I'm bored.

:)