Topic Research: Dragons

 The Dragon's Pearl

  • What was so interesting was that the story showed the origin of a dragon that is now considered the "guardian" of that riverbank.
    • The story started with a common backstory about a poor, but a generous family that was struggling to make ends meet. However, they had come across something that would change their fortunes forever
    • However, with the kindness of the main characters, it would have to be counterbalanced by evil and greed by the antagonists of the story, which in this case would come in the form of some men in the village that wanted to take away their source of fortune from the kind family
  • The story seeks to explain some natural occurrence of the real world, which in this case is the River Min, the mud banks, and why it was called "Looking At Mother Bank"
    • This can be something that I can use to incorporate into my story, some sort of supernatural explanation for natural events that includes supernatural characters like the dragons
    • For the most part, especially in Western depictions, dragons represent fire and destruction. But in this story, it resembled more about water and guardianship.
  • This source is unorthodox from many traditional stories as this source was more about the description of the dragon, which included Chinese as well as Japanese reiterations. They talk about what powers the Japanese dragons are capable of and what they represent in the culture that they are sighted in, which also includes what can happen when you see the full sight of the dragon's face and body. (Hint: not pleasant things)    
  • Here, the source talks about a variety of dragons reiterated in the Korean perspective and history. Like many other Eastern Asian countries, the dragon has existed since antiquity and there is a variety of them. The source here goes into depth about the specific dragons that exist as guardians of a water source as well as those that can be seen flying and around the mountains. It also seeks to explain how dragons come about, saying that some water dragons have been brought to existence through fishes.

  • (Fuku Riu, Dragon of Luck. Source: Dragonsinn)

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