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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike D F" data-source="post: 2213077" data-attributes="member: 18256">And, jumping on the religion bandwagon...The dragons have their own religion with no connection to the humanoid races of Aleasana.  Their religion revolves around the elements, which they regard as the building blocks of the world and life, and the embodiments thereof.  There are four major deities, and their many deific children, the lesser gods.Their priesthood mostly bears little resemblence to that of the various bipeds.  While demihuman priests are powerful weilders of divine magic, dragon priests do not.  Rather they serve mostly as judges, arbiters, sages, loremasters, and philosophers.  Though some have picked up Cleric style priesthood from the demihumans.  They pay little attention to rituals or temples, with draconic faith being more personal.  Their priests are less the supreme rulers of the faithful, and regarded more as particularly wise and able advisors, leaders, or sages.  The Council of Elements is composed of the most gifted priests.They are terribly secretive of their religion, with other races knowing nothing of it, the only real clue being the name of their high council.So, the widespread belief that their jealous mastery of the skies is responsible for their hatred of Shay airships has some grain of truth, it is mostly founded on ignorance.  The main reason is that to the dragons, who venerate the elements, and regard elementals as the emissaries of their gods, find the mistreatment of elementals abhorrent.  And permanently enslaving them by binding them to a tool meant as a weapon of war is regarded by dragons as the blackest, most vile, most blasphemous of evil.  Such a despicable deed had not even been imagined by them until they saw the airships.The Council of Elements has been trying to figure out what do in the long term.  The gold dragon Zusse, a demihuman style cleric of Wotenn the SkyLord, and like most such draconic weilders of divne magic something of a zealot, believes that the actions speak of a racewide taint.  He argues that a people capable of such horrors must be wiped out before they can unleash such widespread evil- or worse- upon the world.  The green dragon Sorrahk, and even rarer druid, argues for a more moderate position: destroying the airships, trying and executing those responsible, and driving the Shay into the Faegrimm where they won't be likely do make more trouble.  And the red dragon Hephaesuss, a traditional priest with no divine power, who worhips Vulca, Mistress of the Flame of Life, believes that the answer is negotiation.  He believes that the Shay should be persuaded to abandon the idea, possibly through bargaining.  Possible trades include treasure, or perhaps spells and magics that can be refined into a more palatable construction method.This debate, known only to dragons, which may determine the Shay fate, however, will likely take some time.  The last such divisive issue, the rulership of Alshoon over Kendra, sparked a debate that lasted from almost the moment he made his intentions known, to a little over a decade later, when he stepped down.  This argument will likley take longer.  While all agree as to the abhorrence of airship construction, they are deeply divided as to what to do about it.  In the meantime, however, individual dragons who go after airships face little chastisement.  And the dragons Yessool, who caused the second destruction faces none.  Unlike Krath, who destroyed the first physically and is looked down upon for those he killed, Yessool simply disjuncted the magics enslaving the elementals keeping it aloft.  What happened after the captive elementals were freed, when gravity reasserted itself on the ship and its Shay crew, was regarded as their own fault.</blockquote>

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