Dragons

Dragons (ドラゴンズ, Doragonzu) are serpentine, legendary creatures with two pairs of lizard-type legs and bat-type wings growing from their back. They are revered as actual deities by many, coming in all shapes and sizes, as well as professions ranging from plain elemental affinity-users to healers and kamikazes. Some even have feathered wings, crests, fiery manes, ivory spikes running down their spine and various exotic colorations. The middle- and top-tiered dragons possess cataclysmal-sized chakra reservoirs and elemental prowess'.

In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with the exceptions mainly in Welsh folklore and modern fiction. This is in contrast to Asian dragons, who are traditionally depicted as more benevolent creatures.

The present haven for numerous dragons is Ryūhinansho.

Terminology
The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon". Finnish lohikäärme directly translated means "salmon-snake", but the word lohi- was originally louhi- meaning crags or rocks, a "mountain snake". The word lohi- in lohikäärme is also thought to derive from the ancient Norse word lógi, meaning 'fire', as in Finnish mythology there are also references to "tulikäärme" meaning firesnake, or fireserpent.