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This answer is informed by my bias that "dragons" should be based not on reptilians, but on pterosaurs, as this in what I am doing in the world I am building. It solves the problem of the wing-and-for …

But we don't need our singing magic parrot to achieve that level necessarily, just to make fire on demand and never at any other time. …

Disused Underground Tunnels. Even small cities can have them. The remnants of subways, utility service ways, storm and sanitary sewers, building foundations, and several other things that were creat …

There are some traits in the animal kingdom that tend to be reasonably correlated (although not necessarily linear). Among those are size, birth rate, and longevity. Anecdotally, the mouse is small, …

Most magic artifacts only work for specific people or under specific conditions. Hey, I have this magic sword. …

In The Real World (TM), we have these things called institutional review boards (IRBs). Whether at a university or private institute, before you can perform research using human or animal subjects, y …

Melting point is not among the first concerns when picking materials for a weapon, ductility, malleability, and brittleness are. In the case of gallium, where you run into trouble is with the brittle …

Natural Disasters Weather: Hurricanes, tornadoes, derechos, micro-bursts Geologic: Fault-slips and other earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions Astronomic: Meteor air-bursts, meteor impacts, sola …

Depending on where you want to go with this story, I would try a divine-intervention angle. In a time long before anyone can remember, one people blessed by the Gods, another cursed. One ruled …