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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9743365" data-attributes="member: 907">The dragon was in the original boxed set, but the sorcerer-monarchs were described as highly powerful defilers/psionicists. The concept that they were proto-dragons was introduced in the novel The Verdant Passage as well as the hardback Dragon Kings which mostly focused on level 20+ stuff but also had some generally useful player-facing stuff. Both of these were very early releases in the product line, so it was clearly part of the setting's concept from the start, just not public right away.The original box also didn't have any talk about Athasian history, only stating that all actual historical records had been purged and what was around should be considered sorcerer-monarch propaganda, but that there had been 183 or 170 (both numbers are stated on the same page) complete 77-year King's Ages since Tyr adopted the common calendar – that's either about 13,000 or 14,000 years. It should also be noted that the lore part of the original boxed set is written in-character by "The Wanderer", so it should not be considered The Truth, but a point of view.(Also, in Shadowrun, only one of the Big Ten megacorps is directly controlled by a dragon: Saeder-Krupp by Lofwyr. I'm sure other dragons have reasonably large investments in the others, but not to the point of controlling them.)</blockquote>