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Pern Dragons Growth 1-9th pass

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Attention! Big! By clicking on Download you'll find a bigger version.

Finally I finished it. I was curious about how the pern dragons have grown over the years. This are the DLG Sizes in feet but recalculated in meter because I'm german and in german we use meters. ;)
I did the dragon's sketch in january. I'm not very pleased with the dragons but I wanted something simple because I don't like coloring. It took me really long to finish the coloration of one of the dragons. Actually I planed to do it with all Dragons on one size picture looking different and with more details but then I remembered that I would have to color it and well then this came out. And I wanted to give them a horse-like look because Anne McCaffrey mentioned they would look more horse like but I'm not really good in drawing horses, so... <_<''''
Oh and it's in german speech. Above it says Dragon Size Overview at the x'th pass of the red star. and below there ist maximum and minimum size. While doing it I decided that it would be nice for my small little german weyr. Yes my weyr. I'm working on it since last autumn. More detail might come in my next journal post.

The Humans are 1,75 meters. Don't know how much this is in feet and inch.
On the last picture I included Ruth. He has a shoulder height of 1,60 m. I looked a bit around and a lot of horses seemed to be around this size. So I think this will come close to the mentioned size in the books.

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Achtung! Groß! Durch klicken auf Download kommt ihr zu einer größeren Ansicht.

Ich habs endlich fertig. Ich wollte wissen wie sich die Drachen auf Pern über die Jahre entwickelt haben. Dieses Bild zeigt die Drachen in den Feet-Maßen des DLG allerdings wieder umgerechnet in Meter. Weil ich mit Metern besser umgehen kann als mit Fuß.
Die Skizze des Drachen habe ich im Januar gemacht. Ich bin nicht wirklich glücklich mit den Drachen, aber ich wollte etwas einfaches weil ich nicht so gerne coloriere. Es hat ziemlich lange gedauert bis ich einen der Drachen coloriert hatte. Eigentlich hatte ich geplant jeden Drachen anders aussehen zu lassen und mit mehr Details aber dann fiel mir das colorieren wieder ein und naja jetzt sieht es halt so aus. Und ich wollte die etwas pferde-ähnlicher aussehen lassen weil Anne McCaffrey meinte das sie mehr danach aussehen. Ich bin nicht so gut im Pferde zeichnen, von daher.... <_<'''
Während ich an den Bilder gebastelt habe, kam mir der Gedanke das es auch ganz gut in meinen kleinen deutsch-sprachigen Weyr passen würde. Ich arbeite da seit Ende letzten Herbst dran. Mehr Details dazu wird es in meinem nächsten Journal geben.

Die Menschen sind 1,75 m.
Auf dem letzten Bild habe ich Ruth hinzugefügt. Er hat eine Schulterhöhe von 1,60 m. Ich denke das passt zu den Angaben zu den Büchern, denn bei meiner Recherche waren doch viele Pferde etwa so groß.

For all that are interested in my weyr / Für alle die an meinem Weyr interessiert sind:
West Weyr

For all who like to play pern rpg in english language:
Evergen Weyr


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Very cool! Pern dragon size has always been a topic I'm passionate about, I've made a few charts too.

I'm pretty much in agreement with you on these sizes, except for a couple things - in the first Pass, all the dragons were very similar in size, they didn't have the same ratios as later on, because a green dragon in the 1st Pass, if half the size of a gold as is the case with dragons later on, they would be far too small to ride.

And it's commonly believed, although nowhere is it explicitly stated, only through inference, that dragons reached their consistent size by the 6th Pass at the latest. Then by the 9th Pass their size skyrocketed, likely due to inbreeding because of only one Weyr. Toric commented that Mnementh was almost twice the size of any oldtimer bronze, (though this could be exaggeration from surprise) and that was only a 400 year gap. If they had been steadily increasing in size at that rate, the 1st Pass dragons would have been minuscule.