Do you the welsh Water Leaper as a dragon?
I do not! This is a personal preference of mine rather than any deep insight as to what is or what is not a dragon.
In some ways, Llamhigyn Y Dwr could be interpreted as a dragon already in Dracones Mundi, the vouivre or green wyvern, as it is a winged, long-tailed animal, but I just feel that the froglike aesthetic of the water leaper is what defines it, and none of my dragons, in my opinion, look froggy enough to do Llamhigyn Y Dwr justice.
The Welsh dragons I do have are the gwiberod (Pteroserpens cambrius) which are small amphitheres with long, featherlike scales and webbed, winglike structures. Their scales have a lovely iridescent sheen and the immature forms of dragons do resemble adders (Vipera berus), which lends some basis to the myth of an adder turning into a magical dragon after either drinking too much milk or living to a great age.
I also have y ddraig goch as a very brightly coloured subspecies of the smok (Drakon drakon), the animal on the Welsh flag, and the anfanc is the Welsh variety of lindorm (Vivernapterus fafnirus). Welsh mythology is discussed a lot in Dracones Mundi as Wales is a country which is proud of its dragons and traditions, so I am careful to include lots of it in the book, but for now I do not have a mention of the Llamhigyn Y Dwr.
