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Sylphs derive all nourishment by means of photosynthesis. Water is the only substance they ingest directly. However, some prefer to imbibe milkroot sap. An ironic side effect is that it induces an effect similar to inebriation.
Vestiges of the Sylph's former language--Old High Sylphic--still exhibits themselves in the sylphs' use of the adopted tongue. For example, they don't use traditional personal pronouns...instead referring to themselves as "One"
Ishgardian naturalist and father of modern taxonomy, Frandelont Raimdelle, tried to classify the common duck as a spoken race. He believed their "quacks" to be a not-yet-understood language.
Astute observers of dragonspeak have noticed similarities between Eorzean and Dragonspeak. For example: r[h]ei= pray ta[h]i= tie ee[h]s=eat wor[h]=war Thus, some surmise Eorzean languages have roots in dragonspeak.
On the Dragonstar, during the war where dragons fought against machine life forms, Midgardsormr chose to flee to a new star instead of dying. Although he was wiser and stronger than most, he was labeled a coward for not defending his home.
Although dragons will identify their gender as either male or female, be it for the sake of convenience or individual preference, every member is capable of reproducing asexually.
They're lowkey a cosmic horror. They can practically live forever and grow proportionately powerful, they can evolve to fill every ecological/biological niche, they can turn other lifeforms into dragons by making them infest their blood, and they can reproduce all by themselves.