Talk:Dragon/@comment-5483097-20120915200759/@comment-1216259-20120921223806

I doubt dragons are immortal, that would just be kind of silly. Dragons are shown to need to eat and procreate, which would not only not make sense if they were immortal, it would lead to overpopulation.

It would, however, make sense to me if Ran and Shaw were mates, and dragons were very long-lived. In the real world, most reptiles grow continuously in size until they die, which would explain their gargantuan size--they could be hundreds, maybe even thousands of years old.

The stone was implied to be an egg. But hopefully they can lay more than one ever 20 years or so, or it would take quite a while to get the species back up to healthy numbers.