[EsotericForest]

According to the book...

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"The Tiste Andii spread his arms wide, then rose upward. Kurald Galain sorcery swirled around him, blending his clothing, his massive sword, drawing all inward to the shape he now climbed toward. The veering was smooth, eloquent, as jet-black wings unfolded from his shoulders. Flesh and bone surged in size, changed in shape.As he flew higher, eyes fixed on the stars, Anomander Rake became a black dragon, silver-maned and dwarfing even Silanah. His eyes gleamed silver, the vertical slits of the pupils dilating. His breath gusted in heavy grunts, the snap of his wings loud amid the deep groan of muscle on bone." - GotM, US HC, p.467

I know he takes Soletaken form again in Memories of Ice, but I'm not sure where exactly it is in the book.

But from the passage from Gardens of the Moon, it appears that we have a obsidian black dragon, that is "silver-maned". My question is what we're supposed to visualize when we read "silver-maned". When I read it the first thing that comes to mind is that he has his normal silver hair in a row down the main part of his neck, similar to a horse. That seems reasonable, but once I started trying to draw it, I was having some trouble making hair on a dragon not look a little weird. The only other thing I could consider is that he has silver spiking down his back, but I don't know if I would consider that "maned". I wasn't able to find a good artistic rendition of Anomander in soletaken form, so I'm looking for some opinions from fellow readers.

[Icarium Kalam]

perhaps like a lions mane?

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[EsotericForest]

Possibly, though I have a harder time pictuing a lion type main than a horse style mane.

[EsotericForest]

Maybe like this?

[Icarium Kalam]

emo dragon?

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[Sinisdar Toste]

i always envisioned it closest to how those chinese dragons are portrayed just upthread, but on a western dragons body

[Aptorian]

I would like to note that if you search google for pictures of hairy dragons, a couple of pages in there's an amazing collection of gay porn in there...

[EsotericForest]

You really do get some strange results on google images sometimes. Do we agree we're dealing with a dragon with hair though instead of only spikes?

[BlackMoranthofDoom]

EsotericForest, on 03 January 2011 - 02:27 PM, said:

You really do get some strange results on google images sometimes. Do we agree we're dealing with a dragon with hair though instead of only spikes?

Yeah I guess it's a western style dragon (bulky body rather than snakelike), which has hair similar to these found in the Chinese style.

[Osserc - Lord of the Sky]

western with chinese hair. The end! lol

[Da'alar]

A mane would be anything growing off the back of the neck and along the spine, for example a horse mane. In this case, as dragons are frequently depicted as having spikes running down the neck along the spine, spikes would be a dragons mane.

So, image a black dragon with silver spike growing off of the neck with snake like eyes that are silver and violet.

[Traveller]

I would imagine it to be long and hair-like, but thicker than , like long silver dreads? That sort of whip out from the back of his head. So a sort of cross between hair and spikes - what his hair becomes when he veers.

[amphibian]

Da, on 08 January 2011 - 08:00 PM, said:

A mane would be anything growing off the back of the neck and along the spine, for example a horse mane. In this case, as dragons are frequently depicted as having spikes running down the neck along the spine, spikes would be a dragons mane.

So, image a black dragon with silver spike growing off of the neck with snake like eyes that are silver and violet.

Then why do we not talk about iguana manes or something similar? A mane involves hair.

The consensus has been hammered out by those on this board: Western dragon with some level of Chinese dragon hair. Perhaps spikes too, depending on artist imagination and execution.

[Adhara]

Whatever form he´ll take, he will be SEXY!

[Vaddon Ra]

Perhaps Black and huge like the picture for neltharion from World of Warcraft?

http://ui29.gamespot...ng1680x1050.jpg

just a thought, but hes meant to be the biggest dragon and all black so perhaps? maybe more sorcery wavering from him?

[miriya]

Icarium Kalam, on 03 January 2011 - 04:56 AM, said:

emo dragon?

That is the single most awkward picture of Orochimaru ever.

Well, barring the gay porn Apt may or may not have come across.

ILU Japan ♥

[Tezz]

Mane doesnt have to mean physical hair, I pictured it in my minds eye as bright silver streaks running down the dragons skull and its neck more markings than hair...

mheh thats just me anyhoot

[Steel General]

From Dictionary.com:

MANE
1. the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
2. Informal . (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.

This post has been edited by Steel General: 26 April 2011 - 06:01 PM

[Gust Hubb]

I really like EsotericForest's picture, but perhaps the hair image should be moved to the image of a dragon on the map of TCG. Unless that isn't SE's drawing. Then, dunno, and thus, extra kudos to EF's pic!