When I first saw the Xanmeer mounts I thought that the skin looked more like a dragon texture, dragon eyes, and "horns" looked more like a dragon skin applied to a mount passed off as a lizard. Then the announcement was made about dragons coming...
I think they were working on expansions already and had the dragon models and skins mostly ready and used this as an opportunity to add it to a mount for the season before the expansion to get additional value out of the textures.
The eye, the texture, the horns and spikes, etc. Thoughts?
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