Talk:Dragonewt/@comment-43285887-20191002143841/@comment-26144500-20191003062600

I just now checked the fan translation of volume 6 and weirdly enough Gabiru and his subordinates are referred to as Dragonoids in and out fo narration (and yet they are referred to as Dragonewts in the fan TL of vols 7 and 8).

As for the official translation of vol 6, the head-priest does indeed say that they are Dragonewts like Gabiru, but to me it feels more so in a spiritual sense and in terms of magicules or something like that. However, the way their bodies work are stated by him to be very different. (with them not having any physical dragonic traits like those of Dragonewts(Gabiru and co). Heck, even Souka and the others who evolves with human forms can transform into more dragonic forms and can have partial transformations (wings, claws, etc). The ones like the Dragon Faithfull cannot do that, but they do have some special dragonic senses and some of them do awaken the same Dragon Eye as Milim (with the Head-priest having it).

I thought I remembered him calling himself a Dragonoid, but from me searching for the term "dragonoid" with CTRL-F for the fan translation of volume 6-7-8, I found out that I likely remember things that way due to how it was translated in the one for vol 7.

In that volume(7), Rimuru says that Benimaru had informed him of the priests under Milim being powerful Dragonoids. As for Gabil and his subordinates, they are referred to as Dragonewts in both that volume and in vol 8.

So the way I interpret this is that the two words are likely written differently in Japanese. In the fan TL of vol 6, the priest, Gabil and co, as well as Milim are all called Dragonoid. In the YenPress TL, Milim is still Dragonoid, Gabil is still Dragonewt, and the head-priest says that he's the same as a Dragonewt, but without dragon form, yet he still doesn't outright call himself a "Dragonewts" (he just says that they are the same, essentially both descendants of dragons). (He does still explain the difference between the dragons they both descend from though, with his own being the ones who took human forms unlike the ones for Gabil.)