Inheritance Dragon Sizes

Just a little something I noticed about the Dragons. I know Via sheer size is often fairly vague, and we had a discussion about making a character High 8-C or 8-B via sheer size, despite being nowhere near as big as the Empire State Building. Inheritance has just a few.

Saphira is 9-A via sheer size due to being comparable to a small house; this looks fairly good. But Glaedr is High 8-C due to being only "Three times bigger" than Saphira. I highly doubt a skyscraper is only 3x bigger than a one room shed/cabin sort of thing. I think 8-C sounds more reasonable for sheer size.


Size comparison of the dragons in Inheritance.

But then we have Shruikan, who is 8-B. For sure looking at the gallery above, he's overwhelmingly larger than Saphira or Glaedr, but I don't see him dwarfing the size of a Skyscraper or a City Block. I'm unsure what to rate him as though, but should be much higher than Glaedr or Saphira.

If they have scalings for other reasons, rather than just size, then fair game.

I personally am not a fan of 'shee size' reasoning and I feel that we should find other methods of reasoning for the scaling.

From that picture, Shruikan definitely looks to be High 8-C via sheer size, similar to how SAO has the GeoCrawler at High 8-C for being of a comparable size

Too be fair, Sheer size calcs are based on a combination of mass, and velocity, which can translate to kinetic energy. There's also speed via sheer size being height divided by height of other animals. Also, Shruikan does appear to be at least 2 stories tall minus the head or tail, but the length does look more impressive. High 8-C seems like a maybe, but want to hear more input.

I don't see any strong reasoning for 8-B. It's difficult to judge his size, but he doesn't seem that big.

DarkDragonMedeus said:

Too be fair, Sheer size calcs are based on a combination of mass, and velocity, which can translate to kinetic energy. There's also speed via sheer size being height divided by height of other animals. Also, Shruikan does appear to be at least 2 stories tall minus the head or tail, but the length does look more impressive. High 8-C seems like a maybe, but want to hear more input.

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That's like rating the average human at 9-C by using their kinetic energy at top speed.

Not quite, we use the fist of a human to calc kinetic energy of a punch. And as for durability, normal humans technically have Street level durability in their skeletons, but there's vitals that are weaker spots in which a Street level punch or kick is actually quite fatal if striked in the face, neck, or chest.