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Wings of Fire is a series of high fantasy novels about dragons, written by Tui T. Sutherland and published by Scholastic Inc. [1] The series has been translated into over ten languages, [2] has sold over 14 million copies, and has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 200 weeks.
The dragon's name is a play on the word "shuriken". [3] Jarnunvösk was Galbatorix's first dragon, who was royal purple. She was killed by Urgals (deceased, pre-series). Saphira is a female dragon bound to Eragon and a central character of the series. Eragon first encountered her as an egg (believing her to be a rare stone) while hunting in the ...
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
AI Dungeon is a text adventure game that uses artificial intelligence to generate random storylines in response to player-submitted stimuli. [1] [2] [3] [4]In the game, players are prompted to choose a setting for their adventure (e.g. fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, zombies), [5] [6] followed by other options relevant to the setting (such as character class for fantasy settings).
Golden Dragon Gang (金龍幫) Soaring Dragon Gang (游龍幫) Befriend Security Service (會友鏢局) Ever Victorious Security Service (永勝鏢局) Golden Serpent Camp (金蛇營) The Deer and the Cauldron. Heaven and Earth Society (天地會) Mystic Dragon Cult (神龍教) Kingdom of Tungning (臺灣鄭氏王朝) Shaolin School (少林派)
Random encounters were incorporated into early role-playing video games and have been common throughout the genre. [2] [3] [4] Placed and random encounters were both used in 1981s Wizardry [5] and by the mid-1980s, random encounters made up the bulk of battles in genre-defining games such as Dragon Warrior, [1] Final Fantasy, and The Bard's Tale. [6]
According to the 19th-century English archaeologist Charles Boutell, a lindworm in heraldry is basically "a dragon without wings". [12] A different heraldic definition by German historian Maximilian Gritzner was "a dragon with four feet" instead of usual two, [13] so that depictions with - comparatively smaller - wings exist as well.
Lone Wolf is a series currently consisting of 31 gamebooks, created by Joe Dever and initially illustrated (books 1–8) by Gary Chalk.Dever wrote the first 29 books of the series before his son Ben, with help from French author Vincent Lazzari, took over writing duty upon his father's death.