Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29684190-20181107222709/@comment-25936766-20181111011629

Phantomlink959 wrote:

1) The flight optimization wouldn't be for weight, it would be for manueverability and speed. A bird has a natural flight advantage in regards to aerodynamics, feathers are fantastic at preventing wind resistance in flight and they can tuck their legs up close to their bodies to further reduce drag.

2) A quadruped without feathers over its entire body would start to suffer when it comes to agility and flight speed as it started getting bigger.

3) Dragons don't count and you know it. 1) Still does not require that many changes that end up turning the Manticore into something completely different. And birds do not change that much as they grow, they just get bigger and more feathery, so why are you even mentioning them?

2) Here I'm just going to quote what Grey said.

3) If Dragons don't count, Griffons and Manticores don't count either. They're all mythology.