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This article describes player characters, important party companions, notable supporting characters, and major antagonists who appear in the video game Dragon Age: Origins, its expansion Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, and associated DLC's. Certain characters have names chosen by the player.
An early appearance of the Old English word dracan (oblique singular of draca) in Beowulf [1]. The word dragon entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French dragon, which, in turn, comes from Latin draco (genitive draconis), meaning "huge serpent, dragon", from Ancient Greek δράκων, drákōn (genitive δράκοντος, drákontos) "serpent".
It is also a name for a maiden cursed into a dragon in the story of the same name. Lithuanian dragons Slibinas: This dragon is more of a hydra with multiple heads, though sometimes it does appear with one head. Aitvaras: Aitvaras is described as a bird with the appearance of a dragon outdoors. An aitvaras will lodge itself in a house and most ...
Name Origin Notes Acnologia Fairy Tail: Acnologia, also known as The Black Dragon, and fearsomely reputed as The Black Dragon in the Book of Apocalypse and the Herald of New Ages, is a cataclysmically powerful Dragon Slayer that can take the form of a Dragon, that assaulted the Fairy Tail core Mages on Tenrou Island in the Year X784.
The coiled dragon or snake form played an important role in early Chinese culture. The character for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period. [13] Ancient Chinese referred to unearthed fossil bones as "dragon bones" and documented them as such.
Dragon Age: Origins is a 2009 role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts.It is the first game in the Dragon Age franchise. Set in the fictional kingdom of Ferelden during a period of civil strife, the game puts the player in the role of a warrior, mage, or rogue coming from an elven, human, or dwarven background.
Child names, names of unknown status and nicknames are in green. Kargish names are in orange. Titles in parentheses are the novels or stories in which the character appears. A. Aihal – Aihal is a wizard on Gont, student of Heleth and master of Ged; called Ogion / ˈ oʊ ɡ iː ɒ n /. [1] ("The Bones of the Earth")
The dragon's story is expanded upon in the novel The White Dragon. In Dragonquest, the gold dragon Ramoth lays a clutch of eggs, one of which McCaffrey describes as small with an unusually tough shell. The weyrfolk of Benden Weyr assume that the egg will not hatch, and begin to depart from the Hatching Ground when all the other hatchling ...