I use "Drake" for male and "Dragoness" for female.
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I call both females and males "dragons," but when I was little I used to think that "drake" meant a male dragon lol. (Maybe because male ducks are called drakes?) So if I ever feel the need to use different words for the different genders, I'll probably say "drake" (male) and "dragon" (female).
I call both females and males "dragons," but when I was little I used to think that "drake" meant a male dragon lol. (Maybe because male ducks are called drakes?) So if I ever feel the need to use different words for the different genders, I'll probably say "drake" (male) and "dragon" (female).
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I use "dragon" and "dragonness" to distinguish the genders for lore purposes.
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I also use Dragonet/hatchling when talking about a baby dragon.
TheClassCalico wrote on 2019-04-17 08:00:08:
I use "dragon" and "dragonness" to distinguish the genders for lore purposes.
Should be drake and drakaina if you're going by the Anglicization of the Greek. But no one does.
I just use dragon for both.
I just use dragon for both.
Should be drake and drakaina if you're going by the Anglicization of the Greek. But no one does.
I just use dragon for both.
I just use dragon for both.
I steal terminology from other animals, mainly birds, so males are sires (breeding term), drakes (male duck), or tiercels (male hawk). Females are dams/queens (breeding term), or hawkes (female hawk).
I steal terminology from other animals, mainly birds, so males are sires (breeding term), drakes (male duck), or tiercels (male hawk). Females are dams/queens (breeding term), or hawkes (female hawk).
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[quote name="TheClassCalico" date="2019-04-17 08:00:08" ]
I use "dragon" and "dragonness" to distinguish the genders for lore purposes.
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TheClassCalico wrote on 2019-04-17 08:00:08:
I use "dragon" and "dragonness" to distinguish the genders for lore purposes.
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I don’t use different words for male/female. In all of my writing, they’re just dragons. Most of the alternative words based on gender feel a bit stilted and unnatural to me, personally?
I don’t use different words for male/female. In all of my writing, they’re just dragons. Most of the alternative words based on gender feel a bit stilted and unnatural to me, personally?
Personally, I feel using gendered words (particularly tacking -ess onto any given word) outside of male/female and gendered pronouns just feels awkward, especially when applied to sapient non-humans, and even more so when those sapient non-humans aren't humanoid to begin with.
If I did, though, I'd probably crib from the Age of Fire series and use drake/drakka to refer to male/female dragons, since they're two of the few terms used from a draconic POV that (imo) make sense, since they don't just other one gender.
If I did, though, I'd probably crib from the Age of Fire series and use drake/drakka to refer to male/female dragons, since they're two of the few terms used from a draconic POV that (imo) make sense, since they don't just other one gender.
Personally, I feel using gendered words (particularly tacking -ess onto any given word) outside of male/female and gendered pronouns just feels awkward, especially when applied to sapient non-humans, and even more so when those sapient non-humans aren't humanoid to begin with.
If I did, though, I'd probably crib from the Age of Fire series and use drake/drakka to refer to male/female dragons, since they're two of the few terms used from a draconic POV that (imo) make sense, since they don't just other one gender.
If I did, though, I'd probably crib from the Age of Fire series and use drake/drakka to refer to male/female dragons, since they're two of the few terms used from a draconic POV that (imo) make sense, since they don't just other one gender.
