This is an awesome video and I have the same book. But you mention that dragons are like cats or something along those lines. Would you consider a dragon to be a mammal in that sense or despite their warm blood would you say they are reptiles? Personally after hearing this, dragons kind of remind me of pangolins. More so referring to their warm blood and scales like pangolins. Just an interesting discussion I think.
I still can’t get over the game that you have an actual face. All this time I thought you were some kind of mythical story telling god who has transcended your mortal form.
“Dragons are pretty catlike” Great, now I can imagine my house cat flying around with wings, breathing fire, and shaking off the heads of mice while his collection of toys serve as his treasure. For some reason he likes to sleep on his toy box.
I imagined it backwards. Now I see a dragon leaving and entering their layer for no good reason, pushing down carts down ravines for the heck of it, and, of course, meowing.
literally pseudodragons with fur and no wings... and a little less pride I guess? but yes, very much a hybrid of a cat a bat and a reptilian XD (2 out of the 3 really like to bask in the sun, as do pseudodragons)
@GermanGamer7 indeed. the lungs he was talking about are also regular avian lungs. They need the extra harvesting to get enough oxygen to not die of oxygen starvation
7:50 According to Council of Wyrms, dragons with higher DEX can use dragon sized brushes to write and also wield weapons as their claws are more developed.
I love the idea of a draconis fundamentum being a magic-producing organ, but I also wonder if the following could be cool sources of breath weapons as well; The fundamentum contains two separate chambers containing reactants that produce a breath effect (flame, liquid nitrogen as ice breath, acid, poison, neurotoxins). The blood pumped into the organ is used to secrete these substances. When the dragon wants to breathe [fire, ice, etc.], a valve opens up between the two chambers, letting the reactants run alongside each other until they meet on the mouth, mix, and produce the effect. Edit: These draconic anatomy videos are really interesting, I love ‘em!!
I've always assumed a dragon being very magical in nature solves most of the issues that pop up about why the dragons hollow bones don't break easy, why it can live so long, or how such a massive an heavy creature can fly at all, but the magical nature of a dragon even though it acts magical down to ever fiber of the dragon, it somehow became natural over millions of years, kind of like an evolution process that breaks the laws of the physical world making them one with the magical world and they know it, making dragons feel like they are at the peak of the evolutionary process, No madder how you look at it, its still a fantasy world no madder how much realism anyone tries to put into it, on another note, I've been really enjoying your videos about what the monster manual doesn't tell you, you've done a tremendously great job and keep up the good work
While a tapetum lucidum improves low-light vision, the second bounce of light is blurrier than the first. A dragon would need perception recognition algorithms of _fantastical_ quality to unblur the image while zooming.
I always wanted a monster manual full of these kinds of anatomical breakdowns of common fantasy creatures along with realistic ideas of how hard the scales actually are and how they can be damaged, how powerful IS the bite in practical numbers, things that a party could use to creatively take down powerful creatures that isn't just lowering an HP bar.
those fingery wings! I'd make adult Dragons fly in really almost unnatural ways just like bats because they can tweak their wings by litty bitty bits just by moving a finger or a muscle in the flaps between the fingers... just like bats do IRL!
Draconomicon: The book of Dragons is litteraly the first D&D book I read. Really got me into D&D: by my first game, I had read all of it, I didn't know most of the core rules, but I knew my dragons! ( which never came in handy before I became the GM for my friends groupe...). Glad you took inspiration out of it. Why was the first image of it the French version? I don't know, but so was mine ;)
I've watched you transition from a kid like 16 or 14 to an adult. I love your videos and I know it's not fair that you don't have more subs but I appreciate you, thanks for your videos and your resiliance. Honestly, truthfully thank you for your uploads I love every video I watch
I like how at 11:48 the picture he is showing is literally a picture of tsunami from the Wings of Fire book series, and it's the picture on the cover of the 2nd book :p *The more you know*
The sad part about carving up a dragon is that there are no specific "spell" or "resource" components outlined, so you usually take what you can get. I would imagine that if a dragon was slain by a small town, it would be a great source of income to that town. Hopefully they harvest it all before it rots and poisons their water or brings scavengers.
This reminds me of my Steve Irwin expy, an excitable Ranger who starts with Favored Enemy (Animal) but quickly becomes facsinated with dragons when he started researching the menace that scourged his lands. Good information for the Dragon Hunter Steve Irwin.
Hi MrRhexx , long time fan of you Elder Scrolls lore . I have read hundreds of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books and had many paper D and D adventures as a kid . This was a very entertaining video , thanks .
Great video, as always content continues to amaze me, you really have one of the best channels on DnD content, it makes me increasingly better like DM, congratulations to a Brazilian fan!
Clear depiction of leveling up: Rhexx back in the day: 18:06 "This video is already suuuper long" Rhexx now: Almost every video is 20 minutes long with some being 40-50 minutes long
This is just a collection of thoughts and issues I had with the dragon's anatomy. All of this being said highly appreashate what the makers of D&d had done in creating the most detailed phisicality of a dragon in fiction. On the part about eyes: I have thought about the odd parts of the eyes of a dragon and the extreme redundancy leaves the dragon at a massive disadvantage. If you had that much redundancy on a single sense it would acsualy leave you prone to having sensory overload much quicker then nearly anything else. The dragons from D&d seem to have eyes based off what you would find on a red hawk and a deep water fish (any number of examples would work here), that being the case the dragon would require two things to constantly be apparent. For one, most of the day it would need to put some form of blind fold on, because if any brain would need to prosses that around of sensory information (in this case being 6 times the amount a normal creature would due to the extra eye in each "eye" and reading light twice) for most creatures this would lead it to being only able to stand being outside in daylight with no protection for only up to a few hours a day. The dragon could fix this by some form magic, but that would be up to the DM if the dragon would do this. Secondly, the dragon's brain would almost entirely need to be dedicated to visual processing. This leads to a number of problems for a creature of that size, for instance it would make the dragon have a harder time having any form of higher reasoning and it would make fine manipulation near impossible. The best real world analog for this is a human, because humans are primarily visual creatures that depend on other scenes, but dedicate the most processing power to higher reasoning and visual processing. The only way a dragon could have an extreme visual system in its body is by ether dedicating more of its body to a brain which would make it more venerable overall, because getting a cut on the arm could lead to permanent brain damage. In my personal head cannon is that a dragon at birth has no form of higher reasoning at all and has no way of accessing magic, until an early off ritual of some type is done (divine or magic) giving it access to reasoning and thoughts that it had no way of doing before hand. This could have been done to the species even when they had been evolving as a new species. This could also be an explanation for the dragon's gods or god (depending on what you are writing this in for) and by why dragons must pay such a high price before they die. All of this is just going to blatantly ignore the fact that in the real world organ redundancy normally leads to increasing the chance for genetic disorders to the point of it lowering life expectancy to the point of the redundancy being killed out of a species. On the part about teeth: The teeth of a dragon are more analog to what you would find as predators on earth, but they are attached to an animal that is the size of a small barn. This would cause issues in the long run because the larger the teeth of a creature is the more likely they are to break. In the real world the closest thing to this is a saber tooth tiger. The tiger would often use its smaller teeth to widdle down its prey and then use the large fangs only when it knew it could get the kill, this is because the fangs would constantly break and would take months to regrow and often leave the tiger with risk of getting an infection. This becomes a problem for a dragon when all it has are massive fangs making so a dragon would constantly run the risk of getting an infection every time it would fight. The dragon's way of fighting with the teeth only exaggerates this because by shaking its head it is cracking and breaking its teeth with the momentum and mass of the victim of the dragon's bite. The dragon could solve this if it had teeth that are not massive fangs and instead are k-9 teeth (as most creatures do) and be able to bite and swing the creature around like it wants to because of the increased density and mount of teeth, or simply only rarely biting to kill a foe. I know this one is a bit nit-picky but its still a detail that I feel can be played with in fun ways, especially when having a character talk to a dragon if that character knows about the anatomy of the dragon. On the scales: The issue with having non-shedding scales is that scales (like an analog of say leather armor) will degrade over time eventually wear down to the point that the amount of resources (protean energy and because its a fantasy creature that loves gold I will say eaten gold and silver) required to restore the scale to fully functioning is far more then it would be just to grow a new one. The reason a real world lizard may shed its skin is to get rid of cracked old skin that no longer protects as it once did and the reason you won't see a bear shed its skin (outside of not having the ability to) is that scales take a quality approach to defense while a bear will use fats and fur for protection because it is using a massive amount of intertwined proteins to stop any attack. Both have issues but a scale does better stopping a slash while fat will do better stopping blunt trauma and weather. The issue is that by not shedding the scales the dragon is forcing itself to do more work getting food and resources rather then letting go of old broken scales that are still attached. The dragon would be better off just shedding scales that are too old. On the bones: The bones being hallow is a massive weakness for a creature that expects itself to get into fights. The hallow bones bit was clearly put in as a justification for flight but the size of a dragon, the massive muscular system and the fact that it uses scales (one of the heaviest forms of skin) make so flight is impossible without breaking the laws of physics so in my head cannon the dragon has typical bones. For the interest of argument, a dragon with hallow bones would collapse in on itself due to its massive size and skin being heavy. Assuming that it does not however, makes so the dragon has a hard time doing much of anything after getting hit in a fight because no matter how hard the bones are if they are not properly supported the bones would snap quite easily, think about it like why metal armor is not used on a person. Yes, the mettle is stronger then the cloth fibers, but a metal plate if shot, hammered or even stabbed strongly enough would bend and not be able to move back to a useful position and often just leaves the wearer shot with metal impaling the wound. In a similar fashion, the dragon's bone may do fine agents slashing attacks (that the scales are already going to do great agents) but the moment something blunt hits the dragon with any worth while force the dragon's leg is broken. This is why I say that the ability for a dragon to fly comes from 1 of 2 places. Either a part of the dragon's deal to enhance its brain comes with flight, or the dragon can fly because of inherent magic that the dragon has. On the organs: The dragon's internal organs are clearly based off of a bird's, it looks most akin to an ostrich then anything else. What I think is intresting to point out is that if the magical organ wasn't there, you get a workable internal system. The reason I thought about this: I had DMed for a group for a bit and they wanted to do a campaign where everyone was going to be a dragon in the normal world of D&D. I talked to a few of the players about it and they wanted some form of justification of being able to have some of the class elements of the base game as well as the dragon mechanics. I looked though the lore of dragons and the justification I came up with was that dragons would make a pact with gods to gain magical ability's and just made so other class elements would add to the total amount of money they owed the god. The campaign was fun enough to write, I would highly recommend a veteran group to try it at least for a one off.justification I came up with was that dragons would make a pact with gods to gain magical ability's and just made so other class elements would add to the total amount of money they owed the god. The campaign was fun enough to write, I would highly recommend a veteran group to try it at least for a one off.
I think some of this seems covered by dragon anatomy or general so I'll give my take of this: 1. Optical Processing: Don't forget Dragons also have a much larger Brain Size, Higher Metabolism, and Greater feats of Processing power as compared to humans(shown via their much higher intelligence, wisdom, and charisma which are roughly analogous to conceptual processing/"understanding concepts", retention of memory/"retaining wisdom", and adaptive process/"thinking on your feat" in how they're used on a character sheet). It's not a stretch to say that dragons actually have more neuron density per volume of brain than IRL sized animals in real life(like say a whale) and have scaled up versions of human/dolphin-like brains. As such would have more than the necessary dedicated neurons if you left a similar proportion of brain for visual processing as compared to the proportion used for human visual processing. Dragons are Born with the same level of thinking(intelligence/wisdom/charisma) as is normally expected of an Adult human after all. 2. D&D is already full of fantasy materials that are stronger than steel from the working phase and there are IRL animals with systems to combat the same problems you brought up. If the dragons teeth were continuously growing/needing to shaved away like a rodents, were replaced constantly like a sharks, or were simply grown in layers of dense, stronger than steel material like macro sized limpet teeth, then the dragon wouldn't have nearly as much to worry about with tooth breakage. Dragons my also have deposits of hyper-strong alloys in their bones and scales, a byproduct of their tendency to eat shiny things(and possibly the reason they seek out shiny things in the first place, besides the grave/grave-guardian tradition). It's noted in many D&D supplements that dragon scales and bones are abnormally strong, on par with metallic heavy armor even, which is why they use it to make armor and weapons. 3. Dragons don't heal scales, they shed them individually and re-grow them(just not all at once). It's mentioned in the video, but He only mentions the ones adventurers damage. In the book he references, it mentions scales that suffer Any sort of damage are regularly "preened" by dragons so that they can grow new ones. 4. I'd like to reference my statement in #2. Dragon bones are noted to be physics breakingly strong in D&D, they're as strong a tempered steel for the weight of hollow bird bones. 5. I think the "magical" organ is actually kind of important to it function at all, without it there is no way that a creature as massive as a dragon could support it's own energy requirements. Not to mention the fact it allows them to metabolize metals(including fantasy metals like mythral and adamantine) into their system is what I suspect to be the reason their claws/bones/scales are strong enough to support their mass. As the Draconomicon describes it, it operates almost like an organic nuclear reactor(albeit one that operates on the physics of the planar elements rather than atomic structures), as it takes in Any consumed mass as fuel regardless of organic/non-organic. It also leads me to believe its a kind of fusion reactor, as most materials would be to light to function as effective fission, and unlike stars, the initial reaction energy being supplied by an outside planar force could allow a dragon to avoid the "more energy need to go into initiating a heavy atom fusion reaction then you will produce" thing. In any non-forgotten realms setting, I'd say the Draconis Fundamentum is more than aptly named as I believe it's the First thing the ancestors of dragons would have needed to evolve long before flight, a huge size, energy hungry brain power, and their hyper-advanced sensory/motor systems(in order to keep up with the energy cost these new systems would bring). This also leads me to believe dragons themselves would have been a small, six-limbed cousin of lizards or salamanders, who by happenstance evolved an organic connection to the elemental planes and unwittingly won the genetic lottery forever
10:55 so the "alar olecranon" is that little elbow spike that dragons sometimes have to better separate the design of their wings from actual bat wings? I wasn't aware that structure had a legit name.
Hey MrRhexx. Hope you're doing good. Just wanted to ask if you could do a video or investigation over the lore of one of the most infamous items in DnD history: The Deck of Many Things. Where did it come from? Who created it within the lore? How can such an item have such powerful effects? Many questions can be asked, but I hope you ca look into it and possibly make a video of it.
With as much as you dive into the deep lore from older editions and focus on the forgotten realms, im curious. do you play personally primarily with the FR setting or do you do a homebrew? if its homebrew how much of the lore do you make up yourself?
Ok so a dragon has a gizzard? Assuming it works like every gizzard works, then the dragon would ingest stones from time to time. Those stones are stored in the gizzard and used to grind up anything it east. In birds those stones get smooth and rounded from the use. I wonder if there are magical properties to the gizzard stones from a dragon?
In 9:55 you alluded to Smaug loosing scales as per a D&D dragon. This is not the case. D&D dragons may have tough underbelly scales, I hadnt heard this before but it does fit the artwork. Mythic dragons are actually the opposite. Most medieval art depictions of dragons refer to an undercut being the lethal target, dragons are known for having weakspots in otherwise hardened scales. Tolkien formalised this and said that dragons had a weak underbelly and would remain low to the ground while fighting on the ground to protect themselves. Glaurung was defeated by the dragonslayer hiding in a ditch and then striking upwards with a single thrust as the dragon passed over. The depiction of the giant spider Shelob specifically mentioned her tough underbelly as being unlike a dragon. Smaug himself was a unique case. Being aware of draconic vulnerability Smaug embedded gems into his underbelly by laying on them for long periods of time. This protection was effective, Smaug didn't lose a scale or gem from his underbelly to cause his vulnerability, there was simply one portion of the dragons body where the added gem armour did not hold 'in the hollow of the left breast'. That portion was bare and Bilbo noticed the fact reporting it and the news eventually reaching Bard the bowman.
"If a dragon couldn't breathe underwater and it had a breath weapon that it used underwater, it would choke" The picture: A dragon that breathes underwater and has no breath weapon
The wing musculature confuses me. What are the muscles attached to? In birds it's the keel of the sternum, but that's where the arms are attached. What do the wings pull against?
I always liked the idea that a dragon eating platinum ore like birds swallowing stones. In their gizzard, hydrogen could build up and fill an air bladder, so it could lighten its body to fly or breathe out with a spark from an organ in their throat to launch fire. Like an electric eel for lightning
It's worth noting that the greek work draco comes from an older greek work meaning 'to see clearly'. Yeah that's were dragons got their name, their eyes
I prefer the Flight of Dragons explanation that dragons use stomnach acid and limestone to produce lighter than air gas to gain lift, and the wings produce propulsion....
First time through the Draconis Fundamentum reminded me of bile-sacs from The Owl House, and second time through I picked up that you said it’s connected directly to the heart. It’s probably just a coincidence, but it’s a cool coincidence nonetheless.
i wonder if the multiple layered iris thing lets them render multiple images at the same time with an extremely close difference in time from light taking time to travel between them perhaps allowing them to calculate the speed of incredibly fast moving things unconsciously, like a passive slow motion camera
I have an idea to create a dragon missing a scale right on their Draconis Fundamentum. They will try to hide this weakness but if a player finds out that and throws a successful attack, dragon will loose their ability to use breath weapon.
@@peachibread1983 I believe Smaug was missing a scale directly over his heart. Once it got punctured he'd very quickly bleed out as the powerful organ proceeded to pump all of his blood outside the body.
@@kylepessell1350 in the diagram it said the blood goes from the heart, to the draconus fendamentum and then to the rest of the body. so i think if he got shot their it would be the same affect as a heart.
soooooo with fang dragons, is their draconis fundamentum not as strong then? cuz they have such little power when it comes to seemingly every part that that specific gland effects. do they even have one?
Once your done telling us the established lore you found, it would be awesome to hear your thoughts on the stuff lost in between. But any dragon video is always going to be amazing coming from you.
Under some canons (remember that the foundation has no official canon)the Scarlet king is an infinite-dimensional being that exists in all dimenions and can deal significant damage to the omniverse.So,he wins unless these princes are like Azathot levels of power.
@@solinvictus6562 Yep and there are still entities who are more powerful than the Scarlet King still. ua-cam.com/video/_OJ29rzXkig/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/YAcIT9RYNu4/v-deo.html Amd Swann's Proposal. Shows how scary the SCP verse is.
Thats not how it works. Most of the skarlet kings "power" comes from his reality altering capabilities not just raw physical caoabilities. Therefore, you cannot really scale his combat power. Sure in his universe he can cause damage to the omni-verse but thats not an actual scale of what he can do, he could be physically as strong as a child. Clearly he isnt and Im not evem saying he wouldnt win. It just isnt something anyone could say. Additionally a lot of the daedric princes' "power" are also very ambiguous. Their physical and reality altering capabilities are not really ever tested. Additionally, you would have to argue how things would go. Daedric princes cannot die if their realms in oblivion exist they will just be reborn there. They have very tight control over who comes in and out, so could the scarlet king destroy a daedras realm? There is canon that shows that people and other daedra can essentially just force their way into another daedras realm, in the case of the fall of jygallag. But the actual method as to which they go in isnt clearly stated. Would the scarlet king be capable of recreating the methods, how would his powers work, would they even work? Although I think the answer is overall yes, the scarlet king would be able to take the daedric princes, it wouldnt really matter. There are bigger entities in existence than daedra. Sithis for example is the embodiment of non existence. Sithis being essentially tied to the world of the elderscrolls, the scarlet king would have to destroy the whole world to kill sithis and even then, I am not sure. But I see a world where he loses because his powers do not translate. This is because the world of elderscrolls isnt set up like the scp's. There is is no space, no galaxys. There is no universe per se. The world is run on magic, could he live in this world. Its just a personal question essentially, do his powers translate?
@@SuperNeospace The Daedric Entities are not omnipotent or invincible even in their planes of existence in Oblivion their just stronger. You can't use some 3rd dimensional limit such as strength and use it on a entity whose's above the 3rd dimension. That's why powerscalers use scaling, feats, supported statements, and if possible mutiplers.
Something I noticed about dragons is that if you look their brain to body ratio is way lower than a humans. I good way to explain this (or at least how I do it) is that dragons have a neuron density more like a crows
More important.... We need a list of what parts of the dragon to harvest for magic user spell components and the requirements to prepare dragon-skin/Dragon-scale armor/shields and what bones are useful for making staves or other weapons. Compiling a listing f what pieces of what creatures are useful and thus worth collecting, and how to collect them has always been on a case by case basis with no similarity between DMs. And dragons do not disappear when they die. That has never been part of any dragon slaying story. The victorious knight is always described as leaning on or standing on the corpse. All of the pictures depicting the slaying of a dragon have the knight with their boot on the dragon once it is dead. But a dragon might plane shift just before dying of old age instead of in combat. We have always had the player characters get an opportunity to try to harvest parts of the dragon once they have killed it. (if it didn't fall in a volcano or into deep water, when the players have never tried to harvest the parts in any game I have been part of.)
In ''Das Scwarze Auge'' its much cooler explained . There they grow special cristals which name i forgot in their brain and heart . These kristalls can be used by dwarf and lizardmen -earthdruids-#Geode to get an nearly unlimited mana supply
The video game footage comes from Dragon's Dogma, one of my favorite games of all time
It's sad to think dd 2 is an online Asia only if they ever rerelease our favorite game idd love to play it with yoy
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You content is amazing Just subbed on patron.
And crapcum didn't flag your video like they did some of my Dragon's Dogma stuff?
They seemed to get specifically pissy over cutscenes.
This is an awesome video and I have the same book. But you mention that dragons are like cats or something along those lines. Would you consider a dragon to be a mammal in that sense or despite their warm blood would you say they are reptiles? Personally after hearing this, dragons kind of remind me of pangolins. More so referring to their warm blood and scales like pangolins. Just an interesting discussion I think.
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I like how the most crucial organ of the dragon is where the arrow hit Smaug
Maybe Smaugs death inspired the organs location?
So the dragons eyes are basically: take every cool eye ability found in all real animals and combine them.
Not all
That's what a dragon is in General. Think about it.
The Mantis Shrimps would like to have a word with you! Dragons eyes do not come even close to Mantis Shrimp eyes....
The ultraviolet spectrum still is the domain of bees, (some) birds, and various bugs and out of reach of dragons.
they have fucking
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I absolutely love Fantasy Anatomy, and really wish companies would publish Detailed anatomical info on monsters more often.
The lords of madness book went into more detail on some iconic aberrations. Some of the pics are from the Draconomicon, a book about dragons!
@@anthonygorman94 Oh awesome, I'll have to check it out, thanks!
I still can’t get over the game that you have an actual face. All this time I thought you were some kind of mythical story telling god who has transcended your mortal form.
dont be fooled. Its a paid actor
It’s his avatar. Do you really think he’d show us mortals his true appearance?
Wonder what a Cleric of Rexxr would act like
Deathcoldn what you say makes perfect sense keep it away from everyone got it.
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“Dragons are pretty catlike”
Great, now I can imagine my house cat flying around with wings, breathing fire, and shaking off the heads of mice while his collection of toys serve as his treasure. For some reason he likes to sleep on his toy box.
I imagined it backwards. Now I see a dragon leaving and entering their layer for no good reason, pushing down carts down ravines for the heck of it, and, of course, meowing.
@@YouW00t NO! not the statue of the hero! that has been there for 12 generations!
*thwack*
literally pseudodragons with fur and no wings... and a little less pride I guess? but yes, very much a hybrid of a cat a bat and a reptilian XD (2 out of the 3 really like to bask in the sun, as do pseudodragons)
Um.... that's not a cat. You have been fooled into thinking that it's a cat.
I would LOVE a video on each dragon, you are probably the ONLY reason people even know what a fang dragon IS. Love your work mate
Glad that Dragons aren't just hanging dong while flying around wreaking havoc on lesser creatures. The intimidation factor would be staggering.
.... now all my dragons are hanging dong in every adventure
@@riseofsock "Oh no... I know that shadow... Run! Valadong the Tipdragger in upon us!"
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Me: "It's okay, my Background gives me Advantage against dragons."
GM: "What's your Background?"
Me: "Mohel."
@@xeltanni8999 that was clever, well done.
Fun fact. Many species of birds also have three eyelids.
@GermanGamer7 indeed. the lungs he was talking about are also regular avian lungs. They need the extra harvesting to get enough oxygen to not die of oxygen starvation
Cats too
And hollow bones
7:50 According to Council of Wyrms, dragons with higher DEX can use dragon sized brushes to write and also wield weapons as their claws are more developed.
I love the idea of a draconis fundamentum being a magic-producing organ, but I also wonder if the following could be cool sources of breath weapons as well;
The fundamentum contains two separate chambers containing reactants that produce a breath effect (flame, liquid nitrogen as ice breath, acid, poison, neurotoxins). The blood pumped into the organ is used to secrete these substances.
When the dragon wants to breathe [fire, ice, etc.], a valve opens up between the two chambers, letting the reactants run alongside each other until they meet on the mouth, mix, and produce the effect.
Edit: These draconic anatomy videos are really interesting, I love ‘em!!
Draconomicon is one of the best bit of splat Wotc released. Lords of Madness is another good one.
Liam Royston I own a copy. One of the few books I went out of my way to get a physical copy of.
I've always assumed a dragon being very magical in nature solves most of the issues that pop up about why the dragons hollow bones don't break easy, why it can live so long, or how such a massive an heavy creature can fly at all, but the magical nature of a dragon even though it acts magical down to ever fiber of the dragon, it somehow became natural over millions of years, kind of like an evolution process that breaks the laws of the physical world making them one with the magical world and they know it, making dragons feel like they are at the peak of the evolutionary process, No madder how you look at it, its still a fantasy world no madder how much realism anyone tries to put into it, on another note, I've been really enjoying your videos about what the monster manual doesn't tell you, you've done a tremendously great job and keep up the good work
Petition to change MrRhexx's name into DrRhexx, as he is a professional Magibiologist and has a doctorate in dracology.
magibiologist needs to be a feat
@@Fyre19 yes
Okay, but as a bard i still need important information that has to be given yet to fully understand dragon anatomy.
As a fellow bard, I know what you're asking! ;)
@@nuru666 ;D
Yuubi Timberwolf as a brass dragon I would love to give you the details >w
...what info? o_0
Heavy metal, classic, acid jazz and trash pop for some reason, hope that helps play Music it likes... thats what you ment, right?
While a tapetum lucidum improves low-light vision, the second bounce of light is blurrier than the first. A dragon would need perception recognition algorithms of _fantastical_ quality to unblur the image while zooming.
The purpose of a vertical pupil is actually to be able to LIMIT the amount of light coming in. It can close more tightly than a round pupil.
Loved all the footage used from Dragon's Dogma. Props.
I always wanted a monster manual full of these kinds of anatomical breakdowns of common fantasy creatures along with realistic ideas of how hard the scales actually are and how they can be damaged, how powerful IS the bite in practical numbers, things that a party could use to creatively take down powerful creatures that isn't just lowering an HP bar.
those fingery wings! I'd make adult Dragons fly in really almost unnatural ways just like bats because they can tweak their wings by litty bitty bits just by moving a finger or a muscle in the flaps between the fingers... just like bats do IRL!
But that’s a wyvern
@@pablito-e all dragons have wings. unless they're a wyrm or drake.
Depends on your fiction. Like skyrim's dragons are all wyvern-style, but in that lore, thats what dragons are straight up.
Draconomicon: The book of Dragons is litteraly the first D&D book I read. Really got me into D&D: by my first game, I had read all of it, I didn't know most of the core rules, but I knew my dragons! ( which never came in handy before I became the GM for my friends groupe...). Glad you took inspiration out of it. Why was the first image of it the French version? I don't know, but so was mine ;)
You need to make more DND lore videos I've seen them all twice already.
I've watched you transition from a kid like 16 or 14 to an adult. I love your videos and I know it's not fair that you don't have more subs but I appreciate you, thanks for your videos and your resiliance. Honestly, truthfully thank you for your uploads I love every video I watch
This is the most nerdiest D&D stuff I saw in my life.... and I love it!
I like how at 11:48 the picture he is showing is literally a picture of tsunami from the Wings of Fire book series, and it's the picture on the cover of the 2nd book :p
*The more you know*
The sad part about carving up a dragon is that there are no specific "spell" or "resource" components outlined, so you usually take what you can get.
I would imagine that if a dragon was slain by a small town, it would be a great source of income to that town. Hopefully they harvest it all before it rots and poisons their water or brings scavengers.
This reminds me of my Steve Irwin expy, an excitable Ranger who starts with Favored Enemy (Animal) but quickly becomes facsinated with dragons when he started researching the menace that scourged his lands.
Good information for the Dragon Hunter Steve Irwin.
love the random Wings of Fire book cover art
Imagine a black dragon looming over you then it speaks in the highest pitch possible
Where's the elder brain video ?
The DarkTiger mind flayer types
@@oliverv6892 actually it's not there
Could you make a video where you briefly cover a bunch of lesser known dragons? Love the video.
Bro if been playing dnd for 20 years almost and these videos are just chalked full of info and I love them so much
I like when you're nerding out as it gives me opportunity to nerd out too. Love the videos!
nerds forever
Hi MrRhexx , long time fan of you Elder Scrolls lore . I have read hundreds of Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance books and had many paper D and D adventures as a kid . This was a very entertaining video , thanks .
It's amazing that this lore was developed so much.
Thank you for sharing.
Read the book. I now know how to disect a dragon, a beholder, a aboleth, a hooked horror and so many more.
@Dillon Brunschon noooooo clacker! He was such a good character
As a fan of the wings of fire series,I kinda was surprised when I saw tsunami (aka at water dragon)
your d&d discussions are always my favorite! thanks!
thanks for your work, an awesome resource to be more accurate in my dragon modeling.
Great video, as always content continues to amaze me, you really have one of the best channels on DnD content, it makes me increasingly better like DM, congratulations to a Brazilian fan!
Awesome video, loving all this lore. And u have a great voice, u can hear ur passion in dnd lore. Keep it up.
Clear depiction of leveling up:
Rhexx back in the day: 18:06 "This video is already suuuper long"
Rhexx now: Almost every video is 20 minutes long with some being 40-50 minutes long
My first time watching this vid and I just realized that I watched every single one of your dragon vids backwards
Well I'm going to use this and the lore in my d&d game, time to do a bunch of Homebrew. Thank you
Amazing video, love your lore content. Probably the best on the internet.
That bit about the dragons eye reminds me of the way Riddicks eyes work
Looking forward to more dragon vids my man. Keep up the excellent work!
Listening to you talk about dragons is my ASMR
I don't even know anything about D&D but this was great
more dragon lore? why thank but christmas isn't till december :3
This is a great break down thank you!
Oh thank you about the comment about dragons being warm blooded! This I’ve been waiting to hear for a while.
Great video rhexx this will come in handy slayin those dragons out there ''my cousins off fighting dragons and what do I get gaurd duty ''
This is just a collection of thoughts and issues I had with the dragon's anatomy. All of this being said highly appreashate what the makers of D&d had done in creating the most detailed phisicality of a dragon in fiction.
On the part about eyes: I have thought about the odd parts of the eyes of a dragon and the extreme redundancy leaves the dragon at a massive disadvantage. If you had that much redundancy on a single sense it would acsualy leave you prone to having sensory overload much quicker then nearly anything else. The dragons from D&d seem to have eyes based off what you would find on a red hawk and a deep water fish (any number of examples would work here), that being the case the dragon would require two things to constantly be apparent. For one, most of the day it would need to put some form of blind fold on, because if any brain would need to prosses that around of sensory information (in this case being 6 times the amount a normal creature would due to the extra eye in each "eye" and reading light twice) for most creatures this would lead it to being only able to stand being outside in daylight with no protection for only up to a few hours a day. The dragon could fix this by some form magic, but that would be up to the DM if the dragon would do this. Secondly, the dragon's brain would almost entirely need to be dedicated to visual processing. This leads to a number of problems for a creature of that size, for instance it would make the dragon have a harder time having any form of higher reasoning and it would make fine manipulation near impossible. The best real world analog for this is a human, because humans are primarily visual creatures that depend on other scenes, but dedicate the most processing power to higher reasoning and visual processing. The only way a dragon could have an extreme visual system in its body is by ether dedicating more of its body to a brain which would make it more venerable overall, because getting a cut on the arm could lead to permanent brain damage. In my personal head cannon is that a dragon at birth has no form of higher reasoning at all and has no way of accessing magic, until an early off ritual of some type is done (divine or magic) giving it access to reasoning and thoughts that it had no way of doing before hand. This could have been done to the species even when they had been evolving as a new species. This could also be an explanation for the dragon's gods or god (depending on what you are writing this in for) and by why dragons must pay such a high price before they die. All of this is just going to blatantly ignore the fact that in the real world organ redundancy normally leads to increasing the chance for genetic disorders to the point of it lowering life expectancy to the point of the redundancy being killed out of a species.
On the part about teeth: The teeth of a dragon are more analog to what you would find as predators on earth, but they are attached to an animal that is the size of a small barn. This would cause issues in the long run because the larger the teeth of a creature is the more likely they are to break. In the real world the closest thing to this is a saber tooth tiger. The tiger would often use its smaller teeth to widdle down its prey and then use the large fangs only when it knew it could get the kill, this is because the fangs would constantly break and would take months to regrow and often leave the tiger with risk of getting an infection. This becomes a problem for a dragon when all it has are massive fangs making so a dragon would constantly run the risk of getting an infection every time it would fight. The dragon's way of fighting with the teeth only exaggerates this because by shaking its head it is cracking and breaking its teeth with the momentum and mass of the victim of the dragon's bite. The dragon could solve this if it had teeth that are not massive fangs and instead are k-9 teeth (as most creatures do) and be able to bite and swing the creature around like it wants to because of the increased density and mount of teeth, or simply only rarely biting to kill a foe. I know this one is a bit nit-picky but its still a detail that I feel can be played with in fun ways, especially when having a character talk to a dragon if that character knows about the anatomy of the dragon.
On the scales: The issue with having non-shedding scales is that scales (like an analog of say leather armor) will degrade over time eventually wear down to the point that the amount of resources (protean energy and because its a fantasy creature that loves gold I will say eaten gold and silver) required to restore the scale to fully functioning is far more then it would be just to grow a new one. The reason a real world lizard may shed its skin is to get rid of cracked old skin that no longer protects as it once did and the reason you won't see a bear shed its skin (outside of not having the ability to) is that scales take a quality approach to defense while a bear will use fats and fur for protection because it is using a massive amount of intertwined proteins to stop any attack. Both have issues but a scale does better stopping a slash while fat will do better stopping blunt trauma and weather. The issue is that by not shedding the scales the dragon is forcing itself to do more work getting food and resources rather then letting go of old broken scales that are still attached. The dragon would be better off just shedding scales that are too old.
On the bones: The bones being hallow is a massive weakness for a creature that expects itself to get into fights. The hallow bones bit was clearly put in as a justification for flight but the size of a dragon, the massive muscular system and the fact that it uses scales (one of the heaviest forms of skin) make so flight is impossible without breaking the laws of physics so in my head cannon the dragon has typical bones. For the interest of argument, a dragon with hallow bones would collapse in on itself due to its massive size and skin being heavy. Assuming that it does not however, makes so the dragon has a hard time doing much of anything after getting hit in a fight because no matter how hard the bones are if they are not properly supported the bones would snap quite easily, think about it like why metal armor is not used on a person. Yes, the mettle is stronger then the cloth fibers, but a metal plate if shot, hammered or even stabbed strongly enough would bend and not be able to move back to a useful position and often just leaves the wearer shot with metal impaling the wound. In a similar fashion, the dragon's bone may do fine agents slashing attacks (that the scales are already going to do great agents) but the moment something blunt hits the dragon with any worth while force the dragon's leg is broken. This is why I say that the ability for a dragon to fly comes from 1 of 2 places. Either a part of the dragon's deal to enhance its brain comes with flight, or the dragon can fly because of inherent magic that the dragon has.
On the organs: The dragon's internal organs are clearly based off of a bird's, it looks most akin to an ostrich then anything else. What I think is intresting to point out is that if the magical organ wasn't there, you get a workable internal system.
The reason I thought about this: I had DMed for a group for a bit and they wanted to do a campaign where everyone was going to be a dragon in the normal world of D&D. I talked to a few of the players about it and they wanted some form of justification of being able to have some of the class elements of the base game as well as the dragon mechanics. I looked though the lore of dragons and the justification I came up with was that dragons would make a pact with gods to gain magical ability's and just made so other class elements would add to the total amount of money they owed the god. The campaign was fun enough to write, I would highly recommend a veteran group to try it at least for a one off.justification I came up with was that dragons would make a pact with gods to gain magical ability's and just made so other class elements would add to the total amount of money they owed the god. The campaign was fun enough to write, I would highly recommend a veteran group to try it at least for a one off.
I think some of this seems covered by dragon anatomy or general so I'll give my take of this:
1. Optical Processing: Don't forget Dragons also have a much larger Brain Size, Higher Metabolism, and Greater feats of Processing power as compared to humans(shown via their much higher intelligence, wisdom, and charisma which are roughly analogous to conceptual processing/"understanding concepts", retention of memory/"retaining wisdom", and adaptive process/"thinking on your feat" in how they're used on a character sheet). It's not a stretch to say that dragons actually have more neuron density per volume of brain than IRL sized animals in real life(like say a whale) and have scaled up versions of human/dolphin-like brains. As such would have more than the necessary dedicated neurons if you left a similar proportion of brain for visual processing as compared to the proportion used for human visual processing. Dragons are Born with the same level of thinking(intelligence/wisdom/charisma) as is normally expected of an Adult human after all.
2. D&D is already full of fantasy materials that are stronger than steel from the working phase and there are IRL animals with systems to combat the same problems you brought up. If the dragons teeth were continuously growing/needing to shaved away like a rodents, were replaced constantly like a sharks, or were simply grown in layers of dense, stronger than steel material like macro sized limpet teeth, then the dragon wouldn't have nearly as much to worry about with tooth breakage. Dragons my also have deposits of hyper-strong alloys in their bones and scales, a byproduct of their tendency to eat shiny things(and possibly the reason they seek out shiny things in the first place, besides the grave/grave-guardian tradition). It's noted in many D&D supplements that dragon scales and bones are abnormally strong, on par with metallic heavy armor even, which is why they use it to make armor and weapons.
3. Dragons don't heal scales, they shed them individually and re-grow them(just not all at once). It's mentioned in the video, but He only mentions the ones adventurers damage. In the book he references, it mentions scales that suffer Any sort of damage are regularly "preened" by dragons so that they can grow new ones.
4. I'd like to reference my statement in #2. Dragon bones are noted to be physics breakingly strong in D&D, they're as strong a tempered steel for the weight of hollow bird bones.
5. I think the "magical" organ is actually kind of important to it function at all, without it there is no way that a creature as massive as a dragon could support it's own energy requirements. Not to mention the fact it allows them to metabolize metals(including fantasy metals like mythral and adamantine) into their system is what I suspect to be the reason their claws/bones/scales are strong enough to support their mass. As the Draconomicon describes it, it operates almost like an organic nuclear reactor(albeit one that operates on the physics of the planar elements rather than atomic structures), as it takes in Any consumed mass as fuel regardless of organic/non-organic. It also leads me to believe its a kind of fusion reactor, as most materials would be to light to function as effective fission, and unlike stars, the initial reaction energy being supplied by an outside planar force could allow a dragon to avoid the "more energy need to go into initiating a heavy atom fusion reaction then you will produce" thing.
In any non-forgotten realms setting, I'd say the Draconis Fundamentum is more than aptly named as I believe it's the First thing the ancestors of dragons would have needed to evolve long before flight, a huge size, energy hungry brain power, and their hyper-advanced sensory/motor systems(in order to keep up with the energy cost these new systems would bring). This also leads me to believe dragons themselves would have been a small, six-limbed cousin of lizards or salamanders, who by happenstance evolved an organic connection to the elemental planes and unwittingly won the genetic lottery forever
You. You I like.
10:55 so the "alar olecranon" is that little elbow spike that dragons sometimes have to better separate the design of their wings from actual bat wings? I wasn't aware that structure had a legit name.
Need more in depth, its great!
Hey MrRhexx. Hope you're doing good. Just wanted to ask if you could do a video or investigation over the lore of one of the most infamous items in DnD history: The Deck of Many Things. Where did it come from? Who created it within the lore? How can such an item have such powerful effects? Many questions can be asked, but I hope you ca look into it and possibly make a video of it.
Excelent video, as always.
I was wondering if the third video on Illithid would be made?
With as much as you dive into the deep lore from older editions and focus on the forgotten realms, im curious. do you play personally primarily with the FR setting or do you do a homebrew? if its homebrew how much of the lore do you make up yourself?
Ok so a dragon has a gizzard? Assuming it works like every gizzard works, then the dragon would ingest stones from time to time. Those stones are stored in the gizzard and used to grind up anything it east. In birds those stones get smooth and rounded from the use. I wonder if there are magical properties to the gizzard stones from a dragon?
In 9:55 you alluded to Smaug loosing scales as per a D&D dragon. This is not the case. D&D dragons may have tough underbelly scales, I hadnt heard this before but it does fit the artwork. Mythic dragons are actually the opposite. Most medieval art depictions of dragons refer to an undercut being the lethal target, dragons are known for having weakspots in otherwise hardened scales. Tolkien formalised this and said that dragons had a weak underbelly and would remain low to the ground while fighting on the ground to protect themselves. Glaurung was defeated by the dragonslayer hiding in a ditch and then striking upwards with a single thrust as the dragon passed over. The depiction of the giant spider Shelob specifically mentioned her tough underbelly as being unlike a dragon.
Smaug himself was a unique case. Being aware of draconic vulnerability Smaug embedded gems into his underbelly by laying on them for long periods of time. This protection was effective, Smaug didn't lose a scale or gem from his underbelly to cause his vulnerability, there was simply one portion of the dragons body where the added gem armour did not hold 'in the hollow of the left breast'. That portion was bare and Bilbo noticed the fact reporting it and the news eventually reaching Bard the bowman.
Thank you for the insight on all of your videos!
the depth of info they made for this game is amazing
"If a dragon couldn't breathe underwater and it had a breath weapon that it used underwater, it would choke"
The picture: A dragon that breathes underwater and has no breath weapon
The wing musculature confuses me. What are the muscles attached to? In birds it's the keel of the sternum, but that's where the arms are attached. What do the wings pull against?
You're my favorite creator man, keep it up
Being extraordinarily powerful to keep a dragon's mouth shut? Please, I have two words, sovereign glue.
Dude I would love to see more face reveals from mrrhexx
Luv ur vids u have an excellent voice for this. Looks ng forward to hearing some biographies
I always liked the idea that a dragon eating platinum ore like birds swallowing stones. In their gizzard, hydrogen could build up and fill an air bladder, so it could lighten its body to fly or breathe out with a spark from an organ in their throat to launch fire. Like an electric eel for lightning
This was awesome! Just a suggestion, vut it would be really cool to delve into vampires some time. What do you think?
Do draconic ancestry sorcerers and the Dragonborn also have a Draconis Fundamentum?
7:28 that is no ordinary human. That’s the person/god/deity/thingy from The Journey Of The West
It's worth noting that the greek work draco comes from an older greek work meaning 'to see clearly'. Yeah that's were dragons got their name, their eyes
I somehow didn't expect to see a wings of fire cover in this video
This reminds me of the draconomicon! That and the Lords of Madness were my favorite books.
I NEVER SAW YOUR FACE BEFORE ITS SO DIFFERENT THAN I THOUGHT HELP
> see video titled "Dragon Anatomy"
> Pulls down trousers
> this gon' be good.
> Start video.
> no dragon prn.
> pulls trousers up again.
Fml.
I prefer the Flight of Dragons explanation that dragons use stomnach acid and limestone to produce lighter than air gas to gain lift, and the wings produce propulsion....
Also, bring on a vid on each dragon.. we can take it! 👊🏻💪🏻
Awesome video! More dnd lore please!
I remember all of this... the Draconomicon right? Oh how so many years it was since I've read this...
Love your dnd lore videos!!
First time through the Draconis Fundamentum reminded me of bile-sacs from The Owl House, and second time through I picked up that you said it’s connected directly to the heart. It’s probably just a coincidence, but it’s a cool coincidence nonetheless.
i wonder if the multiple layered iris thing lets them render multiple images at the same time with an extremely close difference in time from light taking time to travel between them perhaps allowing them to calculate the speed of incredibly fast moving things unconsciously, like a passive slow motion camera
I love the DND vids
Sooo.. Do dragons have cloacas or what?
@Deathcoldan found the bard
Jairus Pratt almost 100% of bards seek only the legendary coochie of the dragon
+LukeWarmPlayz well, all the half-dragons and dragon-blooded sorcerers have to come from somewhere
I have an idea to create a dragon missing a scale right on their Draconis Fundamentum. They will try to hide this weakness but if a player finds out that and throws a successful attack, dragon will loose their ability to use breath weapon.
so.... smaug.
@@peachibread1983 yeah but he got one shoted
@@peachibread1983 I believe Smaug was missing a scale directly over his heart. Once it got punctured he'd very quickly bleed out as the powerful organ proceeded to pump all of his blood outside the body.
@@kylepessell1350 in the diagram it said the blood goes from the heart, to the draconus fendamentum and then to the rest of the body. so i think if he got shot their it would be the same affect as a heart.
soooooo with fang dragons, is their draconis fundamentum not as strong then? cuz they have such little power when it comes to seemingly every part that that specific gland effects. do they even have one?
Keep making vids man your very talented BTW you have a very entertaining voice
Once your done telling us the established lore you found, it would be awesome to hear your thoughts on the stuff lost in between. But any dragon video is always going to be amazing coming from you.
Love the dragons! So keep them coming
The Scarlet King (SCP Foundation) vs The Daedric Princes (Elder scrolls)
Under some canons (remember that the foundation has no official canon)the Scarlet king is an infinite-dimensional being that exists in all dimenions and can deal significant damage to the omniverse.So,he wins unless these princes are like Azathot levels of power.
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Yep and there are still entities who are more powerful than the Scarlet King still.
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Amd Swann's Proposal.
Shows how scary the SCP verse is.
Thats not how it works. Most of the skarlet kings "power" comes from his reality altering capabilities not just raw physical caoabilities. Therefore, you cannot really scale his combat power. Sure in his universe he can cause damage to the omni-verse but thats not an actual scale of what he can do, he could be physically as strong as a child. Clearly he isnt and Im not evem saying he wouldnt win. It just isnt something anyone could say. Additionally a lot of the daedric princes' "power" are also very ambiguous. Their physical and reality altering capabilities are not really ever tested. Additionally, you would have to argue how things would go. Daedric princes cannot die if their realms in oblivion exist they will just be reborn there. They have very tight control over who comes in and out, so could the scarlet king destroy a daedras realm? There is canon that shows that people and other daedra can essentially just force their way into another daedras realm, in the case of the fall of jygallag. But the actual method as to which they go in isnt clearly stated. Would the scarlet king be capable of recreating the methods, how would his powers work, would they even work? Although I think the answer is overall yes, the scarlet king would be able to take the daedric princes, it wouldnt really matter. There are bigger entities in existence than daedra. Sithis for example is the embodiment of non existence. Sithis being essentially tied to the world of the elderscrolls, the scarlet king would have to destroy the whole world to kill sithis and even then, I am not sure. But I see a world where he loses because his powers do not translate. This is because the world of elderscrolls isnt set up like the scp's. There is is no space, no galaxys. There is no universe per se. The world is run on magic, could he live in this world. Its just a personal question essentially, do his powers translate?
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I think it's safe to assume the Scarlet King is very strong and powerful due to his story and feats.
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The Daedric Entities are not omnipotent or invincible even in their planes of existence in Oblivion their just stronger.
You can't use some 3rd dimensional limit such as strength and use it on a entity whose's above the 3rd dimension. That's why powerscalers use scaling, feats, supported statements, and if possible mutiplers.
Awesome video keep up the excellent work
Something I noticed about dragons is that if you look their brain to body ratio is way lower than a humans. I good way to explain this (or at least how I do it) is that dragons have a neuron density more like a crows
A brass dragons shield/ plate on it's face could be for (seeing) as it swims through sand.
I read the Draconomicon at least a undred times, and even then i happen to learn things ^^
Really like your videos a lot, it give me scenarii ideas ^^
More important....
We need a list of what parts of the dragon to harvest for magic user spell components and the requirements to prepare dragon-skin/Dragon-scale armor/shields and what bones are useful for making staves or other weapons.
Compiling a listing f what pieces of what creatures are useful and thus worth collecting, and how to collect them has always been on a case by case basis with no similarity between DMs.
And dragons do not disappear when they die. That has never been part of any dragon slaying story. The victorious knight is always described as leaning on or standing on the corpse. All of the pictures depicting the slaying of a dragon have the knight with their boot on the dragon once it is dead.
But a dragon might plane shift just before dying of old age instead of in combat.
We have always had the player characters get an opportunity to try to harvest parts of the dragon once they have killed it. (if it didn't fall in a volcano or into deep water, when the players have never tried to harvest the parts in any game I have been part of.)
More error in your video than anything that fits with legends.. and the video contradicts itself.
So what happens if you damage or destroy the draconis fundamentum?
Does the dragon die?
Or perhaps is it magically crippled?
In ''Das Scwarze Auge'' its much cooler explained . There they grow special cristals which name i forgot in their brain and heart . These kristalls can be used by dwarf and lizardmen -earthdruids-#Geode to get an nearly unlimited mana supply