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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Sun Gnome" data-source="post: 6791085" data-attributes="member: 6805010">Ah, I get it now. Looking though at the lore for the race, Dragonborn on Toril are supposed to be a perfect combination of humanoid and draconic, and thats why they look like they do. I was looking at it like they were supposed to just be dragons, but playable. Now it makes a lot more sense, and looking at it that way, I do prefer the dray from Dark Sun and the draconians, but they are different.The dray (at least in the original setting of DS) were made in the image of a mad sorcerer king that belived his form was the pinnacle of existance and that his children would inherit the entire planet as the dominant race when the Day of Light came and he rose to godhood. So it made sense that the dray looked like scaled down versions of a fully fledged dragon. The draconians were made from corrupted eggs of metallic dragons, so it made sense that they looked somewhat like twisted mockeries of metallic dragons with a bit of humanoid influence thrown in. The (really nice) picture that was posted earlier was a <a href="https://iamroewan.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/6a00cdf7e97ab3094f00d41417e204685e.jpg" target="_blank">kapak</a>, which were born from copper dragon eggs and it does look like a twisted and scaled down version of a copper dragon, plus its hat is that its stealthy and they make up most of the assassins in the dragonarmies. And while it does look a bit devilish, remember that Tiamat (Takhisis) resides in the nine hells, and there are a group of devils (Abishi) that were the footsoldiers of the dread queen, and that look very much like dragons, and the resemblance is possibly (probably?) not a coincidence......So, within the lore of FR, it makes sense that the dragonborn look the way they do. Of course, I would love to see ones that were skull faced. I'm not the greatest fan of them, and I would have preferred to see emphasis on other realms races and others in the SCAG (volodni, the many scalyfolk, races from Kara-Tur) as well as the dragonborn, but I've no problem with them being in the Realms. And as for prejudice, well, it would vary from region to region. In a place such as Thesk or Westgate, a dragonborn walking down the street might not even get a second glance, but in other places, they might arouse panic and fear.</blockquote>

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