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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 6791154" data-attributes="member: 6786252">I don't particularly care about your world - to each her own.   But you have a number of factual errors I feel compelled to point out. Majority, no.  But mercinary companies with dragonborn aren't unheard of either at the start of 5e's timeline.   There are the orphans of Bahamut running around too.  So, while not exactly common, its not exactly the same shock as finding an illithid or kobald adventurer. Except that fantastic racism is a thing in most fantasy worlds.  Its glossed over in D&D games simply because we need cooperative games involving mixed parties.  But just look at the fiction - half-elves, tieflings, and half-orcs all suffer major prejudice.  Elves and dwarves still have their age-old rivalry, which heats up anytime a dwarf goes to cut down trees for the forge.  Halflings aren't even allowed a culture of their own - they are forced to live and work inside of human culture.    Returned Uther is at war with the dragonborn.  Prejudice in action.  People in the Sword Coast and dalelands still stare and point at the dragonborn.  Some point fingers, raise prices, try to trick them.  Meanwhile, in dragonborn cities, they treat humans the opposite way, as outsiders. I think you understimate gossip, especially with traveling bards who perform for money and food to spread news.  And your assumption that the dragonborn would never leave their home is demonstratively false - a notable have been exiled for worshiping Bahamut, a number have left because the clan elders have become as tyranical as the dragons they once fought in their original plane, and some just adventure for the same reason that human villagers do, because they don't want to be sheep tenders.   And dragonborn as a whole have made a name for themselves as dragon slayers, going out and hunting down dragons to kill.  Its a cultural thing - one of the few ways to be honored as an actual adult. Dragonborn have been on Toril for 100 years.  Plenty of time for them to integrate Common as the most common language of their neightbors.   And being bilingual is actually pretty common in most non-American cultures. There are dragonborn enclaves outside of Tymanther already.  I mentioned a few of them in passing already. They have not.  The majority of them were in Djerad Thymar, which was remained behind.</blockquote>

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