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The prospect of many different types of dragons has piqued my interest. While writing my novel, (or attempting to) I decided to have 8 types of elemental dragons, not separated by color like normal, but by physical and mental characteristics. A dragon can really be anything you want it to be. It...

the way i have thought about it is that they are about human sized, the cities are vast with normal sized buildings. the lava realm is the plane of fire, sooooooo, yeah. they are feared, yes, but not because they are conquerors. they actually are content to be hired out as mercenaries. like i...

the fortia live on the plane of fire in giant cities made of gold, bronze, and copper, all floating above a massive ocean of lava. the fortia are similar to djinn, or efreet. they are gaseous beings with a solid upper body, can float, but not totally fly, and are resistant to fire. they are a...

i imagine them similar to the triton who look like the image, with the obvious differences i stated. they are able to breath both air and water, and they love to socialize with anyone who will listen to their newest theories on the universe

the syreni are a race of fish-like people. they generally have skin in shades of blue and blue-green. they also have small fins on their arms and legs, as well as a larger fin on their heads, Mohawk style. these fins can be tinged on the ends with any variety of colors, and the color you are...

i agree that making a map of the landscape can be useful, that is why i want to make one, thanks for the advice!

there are an incredible amount of different tropes out there. i am honestly not sure which one to choose, but there are certainly many ways to find new ones for writing stories. my favorite is tvtropes. i have spent quite a number of hours looking around of it.

comitatum, meaning caravan in Latin. see if you can screw with the lettering to make it sound like a group of people or profession. or possibly just take the word caravan and put it into google translate in some other language. comitaem could possibly work

i have an idea for some of the physical areas of the map in my story, but i am not sure whether to create an actual map of the area or just leave it up to descriptions in the book, and if i need to make a map, how to do it?

honestly, these are all really good websites. i have even looked through a couple, but you really cant deny the effectiveness of putting a word that describes your character into google translate and messing with it. that is how i have gotten quite a few names for both magic items and several...