Given some of the art glitches I encountered after drawing out the plush designs, I decided to study Ori's proportions at various possible sizes, with the slightly taller than six feet livebearing floppy-eared drake that we know and love as a rough scale reference.

Ori should fall somewhere between the first two sizes, and should be comparable in size to a large ceratopsian or nonavian theropod. They're somewhat lighter due to radical weight reduction measures (compared to the solid bones and mammal-like respiratory system of an anthropomorphic livebearing drake), but can't fly or glide as gracefully as their more svelte bretheren. Much like an American fighter aircraft in the Pacific theater of operations or an F-4 over Vietnam, Floppy Ears wins his fights with diving attacks and straight-line speed and is doomed if he gets into a turning fight.

However, this character just stops being fun if scaled up to the size of a strategic transport jet or Krynn Overlord. You just can't relate to something like that, nor do they fit in most environments. Their voice is either eardrum-rupturing or transmitted in the VHF band, and their body is really more of a clarketech cyborg than a living being. They're basically a foul-tempered, particle beam-armed OGRE wrapped in a layer of flesh and scales that's either sleeping, being used by Tiamat as an enforcer, or as an anti-tarrasque weapon. They're not something you want to be around. Yeah, I'm demoting them to an object, even if they have flight muscles the size of a decent keep and energy output that could launch a DMC-12 through the space-time continuum from a dead stop.

You might plead for service, but unless today's date is prior to December 13th, 2012, you're not getting any more of it. Go hit up some other artist, you wireheads.

Artwork, Ori Hadar © of me
Blue dragon designs loosely derived from the works of Todd Lockwood

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