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Ankokukai ?? Senior Member
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10-31-2011

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Originally Posted by Sogreth View Post
Downvoting all because of stupid comments.

Those look like dragons to me
but you know those are Wyverns, right?

 
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Quib ?? Senior Member
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11-01-2011

This whole conversation is pure bull, but I suppose I'll chime in for the sake of this all being silly.

Wyverns are strictly inferior to dragons. A wyvern is weak enough to just be another monster character, but it wouldn't make for a particularly fantastic ultimate. Therefore, the mere fact that the shapeshift is an ultimate ability seems to rule out it being a wyvern. Also fire. Wyverns don't breathe fire. If they breathe anything, it's poison, and that's a sometimes a best.

NOW SHUT UP AND LET THE ARTIST EXERCISE THEIR CREATIVE LICENSE!

 
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11-01-2011

Op you're so stupid.

 
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Timechild ?? Senior Member
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11-01-2011

Wyvern is a type of dragon. Stop the QQ, she's awesome.

 
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12-07-2012

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if she has only two legs in dragon form and a long kneck, she's technically a wyvern (a species of dragon in mythology) get over it. That being said, this is a game and a lot of mythological creatures are over simplified or misrepresented or misnamed.

Here are some examples:

Blizzard added manticores in warcraft iii and world of warcraft, but they misnamed them wyvern's. (either no one has bothered to point this out, or they don't care anymore since they've already made the mistake and it is too late to rectify it).

Orcs were invented by j.r.r. Tolken (like hobbits were). They are described as being just shorter than an adult man, but much broader and possibly stronger. Ash-grey, etc. Yet in most videogames and fantasy games (old and new), orcs are usually green, or sometimes red (when the mythology of the game gives them demonic origins or they are somehow demon infused). This trend probably started when orcs were first being used in fantasy games or videogames for aesthetic reasons, as green looks similar to grey in some shades and might have been easier to recognize in some shades, but it soon became the norm. Red orcs and goblins were introduced in heroes of might and magic (probably some time after 3do was bought out, i've only played the heroes iii and a heroes vi demo and dark messiah) as beastmen created through a combination of demon blood and human flesh. Red orcs were also introduced in warcraft iii as demon-infused orcs.

Sorry, got off topic.

Tl:dr: Fantasy games and video games rarely get their mythology right.
or we could agree that they're all made up creatures and creatively designing them for a modern game is up to the people that get paid to make us enjoy the way they look

 
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CerealBoxOfDoom ?? Senior Member
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12-07-2012

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Wyvern is a type of dragon. Stop the QQ, she's awesome.
a whyvern is not a dragon noob.

You should stop posting until you can handle a D40 or 2

/snort

 
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TealNinje ?? Senior Member
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12-07-2012

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Blizzard added Manticores in Warcraft III and World of Warcraft, but they misnamed them Wyvern's. (Either no one has bothered to point this out, or they don't care anymore since they've already made the mistake and it is too late to rectify it).
What?

I have never seen a Manticore in Warcraft 3, and the Wyverns are winged, armless serpents.

 
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NinjaCalibur ?? Senior Member
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12-07-2012

Wyvern Mythology:

A Wyvern is generally a two-legged dragon that stands upright and slouched (like a Tyranasaurus). In most mythology Wyverns are also most of the time very small dragons. Often seen owned as a pet that an owner walks around with, having it perched on their shoulder like a Pirate does with a Parrot.

A Wyvern IS indeed a type of dragon. Not a serpent of any kind. Nor any other type of reptile.
A Wyvern CAN be made up in any lore as part Wyvern, part serpent, part what-the-hell-ever. And be called a Wyvern still in that specific lore.

Just as vampires and werewolves are made slightly different per person's lore creation. Wyverns can be made different too. But neither original lore is ever actually changed. It is simply altered in some one's specific story.
Such as with the Twilight Vampire series... Vampires do not sparkle. Nor are able to walk in sun light. But in this specific lore they do and can. Taken the original lore and creating ones own off of it.

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That being said... even in dragon form Shyvana is not a Wyvern of any kind. She is insanely large(even though there is nothing saying a Wyvern can't be large). And she walks on all four legs. She is the definition of a literal dragon being when she transforms.

By comical lore though... in "human form", while she is still half dragon and walks on 2 legs, one COULD say she is a Wyvern for that. But the comical sense being, "Half-Wyvern". But only in a sense of being humorous. That doesn't really exist in mythology rule. And since Shyvana does not transform into a 2-legged walking dragon she couldn't be considered a half-wyvern in her human form. Therefor over-ruling any thoughts that she could be Wyvern-related.

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All the above aside... Why was this topic made?
If people troll you then just ignore/mute them. There are a ton of literally brain dead people in this community.

 
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Lagenor ?? Senior Member
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12-07-2012

And apparently, according to Arctic Fizz, Orcas are Sharks.

Guys, this game is entirely fantasy. Just like how in nearly every other fantasy game, mythology and realism gets warped. DEAL WITH IT.

 
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12-07-2012

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so shes a drake? or rather an alchemist that made the drake mount, turning her into a drake?
Not a drake, a drake is more like a baby/young dragon, or another species entirely (depending on the mythology) that tends to be smaller than dragons but have almost entirely similar features otherwise.