This is a list that I was asked to save from the old forum, and repost here once the new forums were up and running. Rapidshare has a draconian download policy which (I guess) helps them to save bandwidth. They log your IP, and allow you to download only a single 20MB+ file, or several files that will add up to that much.

Draconic: For Dragons For Dragons A long while back I found that someone had decided to link an article on a semi-popular site to my dragon page. The article mainly dealt with the theory that dragons are so often depicted in so many cultures because of some genetic memory of dinosaurs. It's a good way to increase traffic to Draconic, but lots of miscellaneous traffic isn't what I want. I want to touch people like myself. To help them if I can. The miscellaneous web surfer who visits my site may be impressed with the graphics or the design. But that's all they really see - which is fine, for them.

But what if you see more? What if you feel something you can't explain - an attraction - a fascination - a love for something inhuman, yet more familiar to you then any human you've met? Are you a dragon? That's why I've created this site. I'm 29 as I revise this page once more, and Draconic has been around for about 7 years.

I started this community back when there weren't any others. Alt.fan.dragons newsgroup was for roleplaying, Herpetophile mailing list was for scaled erotica, and that was about all there was that I ever found (and this was after searching relentlessly to compile a list of dragon-related web sites that was as complete as I could make it). Most of Draconic's software was created from scratch, before ASP and PHP were even invented. Seven years later, these communities are much easier to make, with pre-built software, and so they come and go. Some are now more advanced than Draconic, and admittedly I haven't had time to keep up with all of their fancy features. Instead, my goal has always been to help those like myself. To understand that you're not alone.

I now know dragons in their 60s, and surely there are older ones than that. I think that dragon spirits have always been here, but it has only been since the age of the internet that we could easily find one-another. Around 1994, I found that I wasn't alone, and I was overjoyed. It's not that I hadn't expected that somewhere in this world of billions of people there was at least one other person at least somewhat similar to me; but to actually find that person, many of them in fact, was a turning point in my life.

I've seen it have the same effect on other dragons and on displaced spirits of all kinds. We are sometimes referred to as Otherkin - spirits of any inhuman creature 'trapped' in a human body. From spirits of animals like wolves and foxes, to unicorns, fairies, and elves - they're all out there. In fact, as of 2005, over ten-thousand people have registered with Draconic. Of course, some are duplicates, and not all are Otherkin, but it's still a large number, and just one of the many places you now might find us on the net.