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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9571689" data-attributes="member: 12388">Regarding the new Purple Dragon Knight found in the latest Unearthed Aracana release:For goodness' sake. If the Purple Dragons are going to be riding across Cormyr's skies, it's going to be on wyverns, not fricking amethyst dragons (or any kind of true dragon).Cormyreans don't like seeing dragons in the sky. Ever. That's bad.They didn't like it every time the Rage of Dragons took place. They really didn't like it when the OG purple dragon himself, Thauglor the Black Doom, went mad from old age and made one final attack on Cormyr (see the novel Cormyr). And they sure as heck didn't like it when near the same thing happened in modern-day Cormyr (see the novel Fire in the Blood).So: No. Dragons. Especially purple ones.Instead: wyverns. Wyverns are OK.Why?Wyverns are far more plentiful in Cormyr than super rare gem dragons are.Wyverns aren't prohibited by law and tradition from trespassing in Cormyr like dragons are.[Edit: Wyverns have a history in Cormyr, too. They don't call that big star-shaped lake in the middle of Cormyr the Wyvernwater for nothing you know. Then there's the Wyvernspur noble family and their particular wyvern affliction...]Wyverns require smart, dedicated riders to handle them.Cormyr's monarch wouldn't want just anyone doing this on her behalf. She'll want people she can trust, i.e., her soldiers. Her Purple Dragons.These are the sort of capable riders a Cormyrean ruler would grant the noble rank of Knight to, see?These are the sort of riders that Cormyr's Crowned Heads would pair with adventurers and bid them go patrol high in the sky over the rugged Stonelands, across the vast green reaches of the Hullack, through the bilious quagmire of the Vast Swamp, and up into the wind-tossed crags of the Stormhorns and Thunder Peaks.Places where danger brews and adventurers are needed.Wyverns are better.</blockquote>

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