"Why does everything we do have to deal with dragons and fairy wings??? " The answer, my dear xoconostle, is of course that we are in many ways socially conditioned (even in our own fantasy productions.) And over time dragons and fairies have, through constant reinforcement, come to be the mainstay residents of the "collective unconsciousness" of Western fantasy...but you already knew this. bored waiting for the P5 patch, --lb