Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
[HB...But that theory itself just opens a different hole: if this is ultimately a phenomena born of collective belief, then how did effectively the exact same thing develop on two separate continents with, to our knowledge, no interaction?[/HB]
I don't think it's that strange.

I would point to the real life phenomena of how it seems like every other culture in human history seems to have a version of a dragon in their mythos and folklore. The best theory I've heard behind this is that people were finding dinosaur bones, but even that is a theory. Tural Vidraal and Auspices being so similar but also wildly different can be a similar idea as how east Asian dragons have many similarities but are so different from dragon myths of Europe, but other differences and similarities from the myths of the Americas that Tural is based upon.