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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1833603" data-attributes="member: 24969">Well, how did the dragons get said money? Do they provide service? Do they simply take it or get it through extortion? Seems what you're decribing is pretty similar to what happened with China and silver. China would only accept silver for its tea and silk which meant that getting silver for China got harder and harder. The British resorted to smuggling in opium and only accepting silver in payment to get it back. As the dragons gather more wealth, that which is left in circulation is going to become worth more. There will be more cause to mine it. Eventually, it will be come worth enough for some to think about stealing it back from the dragons or at least finding out what the dragons might want more than gold.There are few services that dragons can provide. They can act as teachers in subjects such as history or magic. They might act as protectors of each of their little cities and be paid a yearly sum for doing so. They might just take everything by force or extort the city for "protection money" from themselves. As a teacher they could pull a decent salary, but not really dragon style. The last two would make them threats that they'd constantly having to defending themselves from various humans. Chances are the best route would be for the dragons to set themselves up as fuedal lords and claim ownership of the land. Any who wish to live or till it must pay up as due the lord. Human fuedal lords sucked up tons of wealth from their peasants. No reason that dragons couldn't too. Of course, then the draogn takes on responsibilty and just like how human lords had a hard time hordeing money, so would dragons. They'd have to give some of it back out to make improvements and upkeep to make sure their land continued making money. They might have to also pay armies to take money from other humans not under a dragons protection or perhaps from other dragons.  Major battles would be include dragons but all the minor raids and skrimishes would still be left to humans. This would mean money paid out for castles and such also. A dragon could keep a decent horde, but the more they kept, the less able to keep their source of revenue.Dragons would also probably pay for art. Art is a very personal thing and they'd probably want specific art that appealed to their tastes. Art that appealed to one dragon might not appeal to another. Instead of a cave with a pile of coins, something more like a building they designed with gilded living quarters. Decorated how they liked and placed in a place where they could control their lands. building a dragon sized, ornate castle could be economically more damaging that wanting the gold. It could take deacdes of work and resources and still not be impressive by dragon standards.</blockquote>

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