What is a Weredragon?

Take me to the weredragon links!

So, what is a weredragon, anyway? As far as I know, there aren't any weredragons per se in mythological or popular literature, although there are a number of shapeshifters who can turn into dragons... I could of course be mistaken, and if I am I have no doubt that someone (assuming, of course, anyone ever vists this page but me) will tell me so.

I suppose there are dragon shapeshifters in The Elvenbane by Mercedes Lackey and Andre Norton, but that's not what I had in mind.

Anyway, I was innocently puttering around the Web when one day I wandered into the newsgroup alt.books.m-lackey... and never found my way back out. Everyone else had such interesting little personas, so I had to have one too.... and ta-da! the Official Weredragon of Rice University was born. I invented some details of how a weredragon operates while I was supposted to by doing Physics 201 homework, and drew these two pictures, one while I was supposed to be doing Physics 202 homework, and one when I was supposed to be studying for a math analysis test. Do you sense a pattern here?

The weredragon is kind of fun, actually... My Space Physics prof visited my page to grade my interacting galaxies pages and sent me a little e-mail: Weredragon?????

I spent some time I was supposed to be doing homework typing "Weredragon" into some web search engines. Here are a few things I got out:

Kelly Price is someone I know nothing about whatsoever but apparently draws a lot of pictures of things for Furry MUCK. This has some images of a weredragon if you scroll down far enough. They look totally unlike my weredragon, but hey -- different is good!

The Dragon's Cry An on-line choose-your-own adventure type story about a weredragon. Unfinished, but otherwise very cool.

The DragonHold DragonCode A way to generate a dragon code. Don't ask me, I'm not on alt.fan.dragons. :)

Victor Maciel is another person I know nothing about, who also has some very cool weredragon pictures, although again my weredragon is nothing like his.

Dragorian is still another person I know nothing about who apparently uses "weredragon" in his
handle.

(Gee, maybe I should e-mail some of these people?)

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The flying dragon graphic is from Here Be Dragons.