his dragon baby has clearly run away with his heart

In the long long ago, dragons held a special cachet in the castle world. The art of mecha was fairly well established but there had yet to be full integration, and castlers' dragons were of... mixed elegance. We combed the archives and believe that the game-changing technic-gear hinges of the Teknomeka by Brian Cooper preceded the landmark castle dragons of Anthony Sava, which used some smaller geared hinges. In the absence of other Lugnet historians we will declare these as the progenitors for all that was to come.

More than a decade later, dragons are loose in the world. The distinction between castle dragons and mecha mechs is no longer black and white. Oh wait:

We would classify the white dragon as more castley - the curve of its spine is elegant but fixed. It is posed perfectly for the cover of some fantasy novel, staring down at the brave hero with sword raised.

Meanwhile the black dragon has five articulate necks (your gumshoe reporter is on the case to figure out what's inside those tyres - we can kind of see a hinge here but are too old-fashioned to know what that part is) and has as much movement in its body as it has spines. 

We wonder what else has emerged from the mixing of mecha and majick while we've gone gray.