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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9170179" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Yes, but with two important twists:</p><p>1. Dragons are less of a cosmological commitment than various celestials. You aren't involving gods or true immortals or the like. Dragons are powerful, but they don't cross such a dramatic line.</p><p>2. It's a lot more believable that a relatively "mundane" or "ordinary" (meaning, non-outsider) villain could somehow manage to <em>kill</em> a good dragon. It requires significantly more mojo than what a typical mortal could manage to kill a deva or the like.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Dragons can fight--and honestly are <em>better</em> at fighting--the systemic, pervasive problems. Perhaps some type of metallic is innately in tune with the natural order (might be a good idea for my "wolfram" dragons, the old German name for tungsten, hence its elemental symbol W), and thus better equipped to deal with the large-scale problems of deforestation, drought, habitat destruction, etc. Gold dragons preserve and disseminate knowledge, both helping to resist its loss (whether through the fog of ages or the collapse of civilizations), and to kindle its development (whether as new discovery or as the seed of new societies). Silvers, at least in the best cases, would be the ones actively <em>joining</em> with mortals, keeping the flames of courage and virtue alive in times of plenty (to fight indolence and avarice) and in times of deprivation (to fight callousness and cowardice). Etc.</p><p></p><p>I agree that dragons need to be used carefully. I love dragons, but I also know that when they show up, it should <em>matter</em>. They shouldn't <em>ever</em> become run-of-the-mill.</p><p></p><p>And that's part of why they don't solve every medium and small problem themselves. Maybe, theoretically, they could. It would run them ragged and leave them spent and broken, but maybe they could...and then who would be attending to the large-scale problems? Heroes are there to solve the immediate crises, the things that aren't amenable to "we'll fix it in three centuries," and the so-called "small" things, only "small" from the scale of beings that count their age in centuries, the problems of particular villages, or monarchs, or whatever else.</p><p></p><p>Heroes are great for crises. Dragons are great for glacial problems and eternal vigils. The two help one another, not detract.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I find such grave-dancing disheartening, to say the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9170179, member: 6790260"] Yes, but with two important twists: 1. Dragons are less of a cosmological commitment than various celestials. You aren't involving gods or true immortals or the like. Dragons are powerful, but they don't cross such a dramatic line. 2. It's a lot more believable that a relatively "mundane" or "ordinary" (meaning, non-outsider) villain could somehow manage to [I]kill[/I] a good dragon. It requires significantly more mojo than what a typical mortal could manage to kill a deva or the like. Dragons can fight--and honestly are [I]better[/I] at fighting--the systemic, pervasive problems. Perhaps some type of metallic is innately in tune with the natural order (might be a good idea for my "wolfram" dragons, the old German name for tungsten, hence its elemental symbol W), and thus better equipped to deal with the large-scale problems of deforestation, drought, habitat destruction, etc. Gold dragons preserve and disseminate knowledge, both helping to resist its loss (whether through the fog of ages or the collapse of civilizations), and to kindle its development (whether as new discovery or as the seed of new societies). Silvers, at least in the best cases, would be the ones actively [I]joining[/I] with mortals, keeping the flames of courage and virtue alive in times of plenty (to fight indolence and avarice) and in times of deprivation (to fight callousness and cowardice). Etc. I agree that dragons need to be used carefully. I love dragons, but I also know that when they show up, it should [I]matter[/I]. They shouldn't [I]ever[/I] become run-of-the-mill. And that's part of why they don't solve every medium and small problem themselves. Maybe, theoretically, they could. It would run them ragged and leave them spent and broken, but maybe they could...and then who would be attending to the large-scale problems? Heroes are there to solve the immediate crises, the things that aren't amenable to "we'll fix it in three centuries," and the so-called "small" things, only "small" from the scale of beings that count their age in centuries, the problems of particular villages, or monarchs, or whatever else. Heroes are great for crises. Dragons are great for glacial problems and eternal vigils. The two help one another, not detract. I find such grave-dancing disheartening, to say the least. [/QUOTE]
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