Talk:Temeraire (series)
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I have created a (stub) page for His Majesty's Dragon, and linked it from here. Those of you considering working on this page will probably also want to work on that one, too! One thing I might suggest is modifying what I put in about dragon breeds in that one and move it to here, since it's more general information really, right? (I don't have the time, and I've got a low laptop battery, so I can't do it just yet myself :P) Runa27 05:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Nevermind. As you can see, I moved it (and tweaked it a tiny bit in the process) from His Majesty's Dragon. Initial history can be found there. Runa27 18:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
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- Trivia: the Celestial's ability, divine wind, is called kamikaze in Japan; should this be included as a point of interest? -Izaak
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- I would say no. They aren't Japanese dragons. It might be nice to have the Mandarin translation though. -Athaler 20:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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Minor curiosity, I haven't read any book in this series and it seems fairly interesting, excellent article, but I'm fairly sure that dragon in Japanese is ryu (pronounced ree-you) so would that be the proper spelling of Ka-Ryu and Sui-Ryu (fire dragon and water dragon respectively)? Rayfire 05:39, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
I believe that the spelling given is correct as per the books- The name is written by a character 'in setting' (so it can presumed he's spelling it 'correctly' for a 19th century Briton), I wouldn't change it unless it's fixed in a later book. However, can someone confirm the name 'Sui-Riu' as actually being mentioned in the books? I know Japanese 'waterspout breathers' are mentioned in the first book, but no breed name is given to them there, nor have I found it in later books. So is this name just a guess by a fan?
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- Yes, that's how it's spelled in the books. Can't give a page number, but I remember noting it when I read them. -Athaler 20:18, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't know where the name from the Japanese dragons came from. I did edit the lists to make them more manageable and supplied information straight from the books on characters and dragons. (I had made lists of ships and battles that play prominent roles, but hadn't got that far yet.) I'm not sure where the Scarlet Flowers or Emerald Dragon (Chinese listing) came from either, as I didn't catch them in Black Powder War or Throne of Jade. I need to read HMD again to go through the references and flesh out the characters. Pejorative.majeure 13:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
