Quote Originally Posted by Hierona View Post
not like drakes, who we come across from Eregion till Gundabad and all look the same.
I mainly didn't mind drakes since there was a really good story behind them in most recent content, also we HAVE seen cold drakes before but not as densely as fire-drakes - so their chilling appearance was good enough. HOWEVER, this reminds me - we have Thostir, the Great Fire Drake of the East...in Rhun probably... or something like that... which obviously means more drakes but having them be exactly like all the fire drakes we've seen so much of and this coming after Frost Horde where all drakes were STILL basically the same as before in terms of animations, attacks, even looks... oh gosh, that's too much of sameness and even kind of 'bad rep' for the unique lands that I hope Eastern lands will turn out to be... so idk, maybe make the Eastern spawn of Thostir look/move waaaay more different than what we've seen so far, and since Fire-drakes are clearly much broader category than mostly Hrimil-bound, North-confined Cold-drakes (well, at least in third age anyway) maybe just make Eriador fire drakes and Eastern Thostir drakes totally different? Because THAT would make me feel hooked as heck, they're all sorts of different culture designs they can experiment with here for these Eastern drakes...

Makes me think of Draigoch's design which was so different, who knows - maybe they can bring him into this story somehow? Since we know rather nothing about him also maybe he called himself Draigoch after what local men called him because his real name was just so alien that nobody could repeat it, I really liked Smaug's commentary about the utter simplicity of that name in the audio voiceover... "so amusing"