Post by The Forsaken Subtle Sin Saint on Jan 25, 2007 0:25:27 GMT -8
...a group of our Avians and Dragons? We use the Terran collective nouns for them, and since very soon we're going to need to mention them ic, we are providing the names of the different groups of birds for you. Please note that the name for a flock of Thunderbirds is completely fictional, since it is the only mythological clutch on the list, and we could find no references.
Crows: Murder
Thunderbirds: Tribe
Cormorants: Gulp
Swans: Bank
Eagles: Convocation
Ravens: Unkindness
Aren't these great names? We got them from www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/got_questions_groups_list.html, check them out for other great collective nouns for animals.
Dragons are another story. It seems EVERYONE has a different opinion on what to call a group of dragons, from a bask, clan, clutch, doom, drive, drove, flame, flight or horde to pride, rage, scourge, storm, weyr or wing. We of course mostly refer to our Dragons as armies, lol, since we have five Dragon armies, and that's the collective noun most commonly used. But for civilians, I am making an executive decision; we will refer to them as a "bask of dragons," simply because I love the idea of dragons basking in the sun. A bask will refer to a group of three or more Dragons, be they immediate family, extended family or other other social grouping of civilian Dragons.
Crows: Murder
Thunderbirds: Tribe
Cormorants: Gulp
Swans: Bank
Eagles: Convocation
Ravens: Unkindness
Aren't these great names? We got them from www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/got_questions_groups_list.html, check them out for other great collective nouns for animals.
Dragons are another story. It seems EVERYONE has a different opinion on what to call a group of dragons, from a bask, clan, clutch, doom, drive, drove, flame, flight or horde to pride, rage, scourge, storm, weyr or wing. We of course mostly refer to our Dragons as armies, lol, since we have five Dragon armies, and that's the collective noun most commonly used. But for civilians, I am making an executive decision; we will refer to them as a "bask of dragons," simply because I love the idea of dragons basking in the sun. A bask will refer to a group of three or more Dragons, be they immediate family, extended family or other other social grouping of civilian Dragons.