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Revision as of 15:12, 17 July 2013
| Media type | Short story |
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| Release date | July 17, 2013 |
| Creator | Lavie Tidhar |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| URL | http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/07/dragonkin |
Dragonkin is a short story by Lavie Tidhar in which otherkin - particularly dragonkin, angelkin, elfkin, otakukin, and demonkin though others are mentioned - have been given their true forms by the release of a device termed the "Mythago bomb". It describes otherkin as mere children of "pure Mythago, a powerful myth-imago from the primal human subconscious". Five pure Mythago are listed in the story. As fiction, it is unique in dealing with the actual beliefs of the real otherkin community - from awakening to headmates, among others - but in a future dystopian fantasy setting, and augmenting such beliefs with speculative additions such as "in Cuba Marx-kin battled Leninkind for domination." It remains to be seen what influence, if any, this fiction and any future works of this kind may have on the real otherkin community.