Dragon's speech

[ZombieAstronaut]

So speech of dragon characters in comics written as thoughts bubbles. But despite this everyone understand them and respond. So do they(dragons) directly "load" words into person's mind instead of producing sound? (Like Death from Terry Pratchett's discworld). Still can't figure out how this stuff works.

[MuonNeutrino]

So speech of dragon characters in comics written as thoughts bubbles. But despite this everyone understand them and respond. So do they(dragons) directly "load" words into person's mind instead of producing sound? (Like Death from Terry Pratchett's discworld). Still can't figure out how this stuff works.

Telepathy is the general consensus, yes. It's hard to see how *else* one could interpret "words placed in thought bubbles that are obviously intended as directed speech towards other individuals and which said individuals obviously 'hear' and react to", anyway. Dragons are super-powerful magical beings, after all, and we already know from Natani and Zen's link that magic can do telepathy, so dragons communicating that way doesn't seem far fetched at all. It certainly would avoid the question of how beings with such obviously different vocal anatomies could produce intelligible human/keidran speech.

[SpottedKitty]

It also meshes well with the many times so far when Reni's accidentally "thought out loud" something incredibly self-embarrassing. She's a lot smaller than Nora, and the leader in the wolf attack (was that Clovis himherself?) said Reni was too young to break through their magical defences. So, most likely Reni hasn't yet learned how to completely separate her "thinking out loud" from "thinking to herself".

[Schrodinger]

It also meshes well with the many times so far when Reni's accidentally "thought out loud" something incredibly self-embarrassing. She's a lot smaller than Nora, and the leader in the wolf attack (was that Clovis himherself?) said Reni was too young to break through their magical defences. So, most likely Reni hasn't yet learned how to completely separate her "thinking out loud" from "thinking to herself".

The problem with telepaths is knowing when and how to filter all those thoughts. Not only yours but the thoughts of others. I wonder how many surface thoughts she's gleaned from others.

[Cyon]

It also meshes well with the many times so far when Reni's accidentally "thought out loud" something incredibly self-embarrassing. She's a lot smaller than Nora, and the leader in the wolf attack (was that Clovis himherself?) said Reni was too young to break through their magical defences. So, most likely Reni hasn't yet learned how to completely separate her "thinking out loud" from "thinking to herself".

The problem with telepaths is knowing when and how to filter all those thoughts. Not only yours but the thoughts of others. I wonder how many surface thoughts she's gleaned from others.

This could be one large source of paranoia. I'd be scared to like around her

[Cpt.Obvious]

It also meshes well with the many times so far when Reni's accidentally "thought out loud" something incredibly self-embarrassing. She's a lot smaller than Nora, and the leader in the wolf attack (was that Clovis himherself?) said Reni was too young to break through their magical defences. So, most likely Reni hasn't yet learned how to completely separate her "thinking out loud" from "thinking to herself".

Well I guess it's a good thing that so far her thoughts has made her appear to be incredibly sweet, slightly naive, and easily embarrassed...

Knowing that the big scary dragon has a puppy crush on a squishy guard is kind of cute.