Rexxit refugee here, so I guess I’ll try to do my part in case things don’t improve on Reddit. So what are dragons or similar beings like in your world?
In my world, dragons are called The Watchers, in charge of safeguarding the worlds from premature destruction. They were created by the gods to live alongside “lesser” mortals, but they blur the line between the mundane and divinity. For this reason, they consider themselves to be the apex species - and they aren’t wrong. They’re stronger, they’re smarter, they’re extremely long-lived. They have to be able to contend with any and all threats. But they also look down upon regular mortals and demand tributes. Even the most benevolent ones display some amount of haughtiness. Their borderline tyrannical nature caused humans in particular to rise up against them and drive them to near extinction, which was incited by the ascension of the Man-God. With many of their brethren slain, stereotypical stories of cruel wurms being celebrated, and the worship of the Man-God, many dragons have taken an antagonistic stance against humanity. They no longer express any interest in communicating with humans, which they did in the past via telekinesis since they can’t speak. It has also led to many killing and eating as they please with no regard to how it effects man.
Really late reply, but hopefully still OK?
In my world, the dragons are huge robots that are used as war weapons against whatever’s left of the world. They, along with every other Machine, are controlled by the HyperMatrix, the central AI that controls the entire species.
They resemble the classic European dragons, 4 legs, lizard-like, flying flamethrowers, but mechanical.
They are feared by humanity not only because of the obvious reasons, but because they are the most advanced unit of the entire species, capable of locating human settlements and disabling their already dated technology. Their sonic weapons also prove to be a challenge, as such attacks wipe entire bunkers in seconds with few ways of defending against.
They are also used as bombers, which helped the Machines to carpet bomb entire countries, and given their high maneuverability, anti-air defense weapons had seldom any success.
Even though they are controlled by the HyperMatrix, every Machine has it’s own personality and identity. Dragons are highly intelligent, being great strategists and some even capable of having some understanding of the impossibly complex structure of the human mind and emotion center. Some dragons even developed emotion-like routines, that made them take a liking to humans, some even going as far as to rebel against the HyperMatrix, disconnecting from it.
However, few dragons exist on the present day, due to The Blackout, where in a revenge-fueled rage, William Von Ferdi, one of the leaders of the Mechanicus Jihad developed a virus capable of obliterating any and all electronic technology existing on Earth, which he then used to destroy the HyperMatrix and all it’s Machines. Unfortunately, many of the rebelled dragons were also destroyed by the virus, and the few ones that survived were the ones that were isolated from everything else before the virus activated, as it’s prime spread vector was the Peer-to-Peer network the Machines used to communicate. The survival of those dragons did piss William off, but given their helpfulness, he did restrain himself to not release a second and final wave of the virus.