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Something I thought of while bored.

Why did Larian choose to make the dragons two-legged? A more-or-less traditional European dragon is usually a four-legged beast (and the more intelligent specimen use their forelegs as arms and hands sometimes).

Now, I know that the dragons of Rivellon have clawed digits on the wing joints, but using those as hands would be quite awkward... (of course, dragons being magical beings, it's not much of a problem for them, and anything requiring opposable thumbs could probably be done in human form).

Still, I'm curious, why the two-legged design choice?

The character 'dragon' form was deliberately designed as a wyvern, to better correspond to the human form (ie arms become wings, rather than wings just sprouting out of the character's back, or something).

I don't know if Patriarch took a wyvern form to talk to your character, because he wanted a change of pace when he moved to that cave, or Larian just went with a different design. He had arms, legs and wings in Divine Divinity.

I see. Makes sense, I suppose. Though I hope in the future we can take a true dragon form. Wyverns are so... inferior. Heh.