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Old 2013-06-10, 11:00   Link #305
GDB
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It's not weird for a white dragon to be named Albion. It's the oldest known name for Great Britain. Further, the word's latin roots come from the word for white. There is a bit of lore for Albion in King Arthur mythology, which is where the white and red dragon stuff comes from.

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The Welsh Dragon – Welsh: Y Ddraig Goch ("the red dragon") pronounced [ə ˈğraiɡ ˈɡoːχ] – appears on the national flag of Wales.
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They continue their fight and the red dragon finally defeats the white dragon. The boy tells Vortigern that the white dragon symbolises the Saxons and that the red dragon symbolises the people of Vortigern. If Vortigern is accepted to have lived in the 5th century, then these people are the British whom the Saxons failed to subdue and who became the Welsh.
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The same story is repeated in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, where the red dragon is also a prophecy of the coming of King Arthur.
As for looking similar... there's only so many ways to design a dragon, especially when you cloak it in shadows.
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