sixth-light:

I used to think dragons weren’t terribly plausible in the RoL universe because both 1) physics and 2) the large unknown animal problem (essentially: talking foxes are one thing, but the largest non-marine vertebrate unknown to science that wasn’t a subspecies of a known species, i.e. forest elephants don’t count, was the okapi in the early 20th C). But thinking on it, people breathing underwater (or surviving without breathing?) for hours + invisible unicorns pretty much address the how-much-can-magic-screw-with-physics issue (although one feels dragons would have to be fairly significantly magically powerful even so), and entrances to Fae deal with the large unknown animal problem.

All of which is to say that dragons in this series would not break my suspension of disbelief, but only as long as Peter spent a lot of time being outraged about the ability of magic to screw with physics and doing sketch diagrams in his notebooks about the amount of force required per square metre of wing area and so on to keep them airborne.

I think firebreathing as a biological phenomenon might still be out of the question, though. Maybe dragons can just naturally cast fireballs.