Dragons
Names: Dragonsdragon
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 23 (Chapter Twenty-Three: Huey)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 23Jabberwocky's natives, which Mario calls dragons, are winged, squirrel-like beings who build villages on floating leviathans.
- Ch 26Jabberwocky's dragons identify only by village and may regard other villagers as barely above talking animals.
- Ch 29Dragons are about six and a half feet tall, with scale-like coverings that act as feathers on their wings, hollow bones and high metabolism.
- Ch 29Four spear-carrying dragons chase Howard and Bridget far from any populated leviathan, suggesting dragons run patrols.
- Ch 36Dragon culture is evolving rapidly, with mounting tensions and possible state-sponsored piracy.
- Ch 36An Alexander-the-Great-like dragon figure is annexing territory consisting of the floating islands.
- Ch 40Dragons have no central government or official money; metal coins serve as barter currency and adulterating them can mean death.
- Ch 40Some dragons, called Sooth Hunters, can reputedly smell a lie or hear a raised heart rate.
- Ch 40Dragon civilization is very old and fairly static, building three-dimensional arboreal villages with clever ad hoc engineering.
- Ch 44Dragon medicine is at an Iron Age level, and their dead are thrown into pits to feed the floater.
- Ch 62The migrated dragons are spreading across the new continent; the new lake fish are acceptable and no new predators or diseases have appeared.
- Ch 62On the old continent, Bridget expects floater losses and overfishing to cause total ecosystem collapse, proving Alexander right.
Connections
- inJabberwocky
- has memberAlexander
- led byAlexanderrules an empire
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 29Chased by dragons
Four dragons with spears chase Howard and Bridget, who outpace them. Bridget resolves to raise the possible patrols with Gandalf.
- Book 5 · Ch 55A floater burns in the storm
In a fierce storm, fire breaks out on a floater; Howard, Bridget and soldiers cut it loose and it falls burning into the sea, with dozens of dragons lost.
- Book 5 · Ch 57The dragon exodus begins
With rafts and signal fires in place, Alexander launches the staggered mass flight of dragons toward Lemuria.