You missed the whole thing where legendary heroes seem to be constantly imitating Akatosh and Lorkhan? Most recently, I pointed it out. And besides, the khajiit did it simply enough with ' is depicted as a fearsome dragon, a creature the Khajiit say 'is just a real big cat'.' without fart-arsing about with absurd meta-logic.

There's a whole heap of glaring logical leaps in there that I'm not going to bother pointing out. The tigers are actually dragons who look like canines because the Chinese had lions that vaguely looked like dragons but weren't. I'm not sure I follow the point of this whole argument. If that was the case, doesn't that actually argue against the whole western/eastern dragon dichotomy anyway? Or are we going to play slippery slope hypotheticals again and say they changed when they came to the west. Megan gleeson Posts: 3493 Joined: Wed 2:01 pm Humans and Elves I can get, but there's no real reason for two strains of Khajiit developing on opposite ends of Nirn- ignoring the Lilmothiit for now, who at least lived near Elsweyr. Plus, this case of convergent evolution is a lot more satisfying (to me, at least) than having two races (the Ka Po' Tun and Khajiit) looking basically the same. The Ka Po' Tun are said to be trying to become dragons, but what if they're already distantly related to the Akaviri dragons? It would explain the (theoretically) similar features, and why they even want to become dragons in the first place! Now, the actual Ka Po' Tun are clearly tiger-like, as their leader, Tosh Raka is said to be orange with black stripes, but other than (Pok%C3%A9mon), what's there to say that they don't actually have features more like a Fu Lion? They don't look like any big cat i've ever seen, but they DO look somewhat dog-like.ДЄnother thing to consider, if you've been reading the articles i've linked to, is that both Chinese artistic depictions of lions and dragons are actually rather similar. Think, what IRL looks canine to a westerner, but is actually feline? I present. 'But Jara!' you say, 'as handsome as you are, you're mistaken! The Ka Po' Tun are feline, not canine!'ДЄh, but that's where you're wrong! Please keep in mind that no Tamrielic citizen has ever (supposedly) seen a Ka Po' Tun with their own eyes, merely relying on stories by the Tsaesci. If you read the, you might notice references to canine pirates, who were among the first of the Akaviri races to make contact with Tamriel. Why would the dragons there look like Akatosh and Peryite? Instead, Akaviri dragons would look a little something like. However, the dragons originated in Akavir, an Asian-influenced continent. Tamriel is a European-influenced land, so naturally they have European dragons.

However, after some thought on the subject, I've come to the conclusion that this interpretation is wrong. This is pretty much the only information available about the enigmatic people of Ka Po' Tun, and I don't know about the rest of you, but i've always viewed them as pretty similar to the Khajiit. He is the largest Dragon in the world, orange and black, and he has very many new ideas.' Since that time the cat-folk have tried to become the Dragons. A great war was raged, which left both the cats and the snakes weak, and the Dragons all dead. They managed to enslave the Red Dragons, but the black ones had fled to (then) Po Tun. After the Serpent-Folk ate all the Men, they tried to eat all the Dragons. They are now a very great empire, stronger than Tsaesci (though not at sea). The cat-folk here are ruled by the divine Tosh Raka, the Tiger-Dragon. 'Ka Po' Tun is the 'Tiger-Dragon's Empire'.

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