the old anglo saxon word for dragon is wyrm (pronounced worm), and is interchangeable with serpent.
Draconian comes from the latin Draconis, which is where the word dragon comes from.
now as i understand it, the race known as draconians are not the fire breathing winged leviathans of popular fiction, but a race of intelligent reptilian people.
around 80 million years ago, there was a few species of dinosaur which where roughly man sized (between 5 and 7 feet tall), bipedal, and hada cranium sufficiently large to house a brain not entirely unlike our own. experts believe their intelligence may have ranged somewhere from that of a racoon to that of a proto-hominid (cave-man). most significantly, some of thse species had opposable thumbs.
the dinosaurs disapeared around 20 million years later - ample time for them to evolve and adapt into something more like us - or beyond.
this is speculation, but what if they didn't die out when the other dinosaurs did? although we have found many fossils, the circumstances under which a creature can become fossilised is relatively rare. in other words, the fossil eveidence we have barely scratches the surface. it is entirely possible these creatures could have developed a culture, and a few may even have survived beyond the catastrophy that wiped out the great dinosaurs (after all - our anscestors survived).
i'm not saying any are still alive now - but some may have survived to the times of our prehistoric civisation. i doubt they ever built huge cities and great machines, because i am sure there would be some evidence of that - but they could have been "people" and they could have had their own rituals and magic beliefs.
