Thread:JayHart/@comment-26464372-20150326165404/@comment-25857155-20150327123435

...Yeah. If you've played Fire Emblem, they're sort of similar to the Manekete (Or was it Manakete?).

To start, they have two forms. In dragon form, they're a bit less massive than the usual beasts of lore - that is, only as big as a medium-sized house, at most, rather than growing to the size of mountains. Most have semi-serpentine forms reminiscent of Eastern dragons, but with four legs, while certain sub-species possess the thicker and shorter bodies of western dragons. As most large apex predators do, the dragons of my world (named Jaindur, in the common tongue) have voracious appetites.

Their human forms have few distinguishing traits beyond their tapered ears being somewhat longer than the elves' from the same world, and their deceptively young appearance. Dragons do die from old age, but they naturally live for millennia, making them seem immortal to all races but the truly immortal ones (the winged magi, called Nephalim for the time being, for lack of a better name having occurred to me as yet, and in part the Shiatail [incorrectly spelled for simplicity's sake], who can control their age at will). The only dragons likely to be seen in human form are quite young (for them), so normally appear to range from adolescence to their twenties.

It should be noted that in human form, a dragon's digestive metabolism is slowed significantly, though it is still notably faster than even the various werepeople of Jaindur. It takes quite a lot of energy for them to transform, so prior to transformation they usually eat quite a lot, even compared to their normally large appetite.