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Arielle wasn’t mentioned as a Sylph, right?
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GlaDOS is my spirit animal.
The legend grew up with this idea, but nowadays we know real salamanders are just brave little critters who know when to get the heck outta there when there’s a fire about. We can learn a thing or two from them.
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Cool
Also the main reason why people associated salamanders with fire, in case you really must know, is because they tend to hibernate either inside or in between logs. Hence, people would accidentally disturb their sleep by starting fires. The salamanders managed to get out alright, thankfully, and this lead to the conclusion that they seem to walk from the heart of the fire entirely unscathed.
Ah
@Background Pony #9DA2
Huh, I never knew it’s based off of that XD
When people of the past set logs on fire for warmth, sometimes a salamander would be slumbering inside. The fire would then wake up the salamander and the poor bastard would get the hell outta there. The ancient people, being the masters of the deduction that they were, would come to the conclusion that the fire birthed the salamander, and so salamanders would be associated with fire for generations to come.
Neat!
@Derpy Whooves
You’re a fan of portal aren’t ya? ;P
According to some great thinkers in the long ago, the substance that salamanders secrete makes them immune to fire, and even able to put out fires.
Subsequent testing has determined that they are not, in fact, immune to fire.
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It does seem ironic, but legendary salamanders do take a reptilian shape as do dragons. That, and the name is based on an Arabic term that translates to “lives in fire”.
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Really? Huh, it’s weird since salamanders are essentially water dwellers
I believe it has something to do with the myth of the creature. Folklore has ascribed the salamander as affinity with fire for generations.
Because this particular one is red ig
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