Talk:Dragon/@comment-39110948-20190617190155/@comment-27950421-20190701125407

Early dragon myths didn't feature fire breathing at all. They had a poisonous bite, but that was it. It kind of progressed from there in a sort of fisherman's tale, where story tellers were essentially making the monster bigger and badder to make the hero more heroic.

The dragon would have a poisonous bite, then another dragon would be so poisonous that he only need to breathe on you to kill you, then another could fly, eventually the stories evolved into the fire breathing winged beast we know today.