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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6801724" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Which would seem to me enough time that, unless you were really sheltered and out-of-the-way, you'd have heard something about them. Hell's bells, if these people have anything like a European lifespan (a bit over 5 decades for the unlucky, shy of 7 for the lucky), at least one generation has been born and died since they appeared. That could even have happened twice, back to back (born-lived-died then that same day another child is born, it lives and dies). And for humans, at least, it'd be at least four and possibly as many as seven "proper" generations (that is, from birth to giving birth) since they arrived; 100/25 = 4 as a minimum; add 1 for overlap (people alive at the time they arrived), and assume 120 years and a 20-year birth-to-birth time, and that's what you get (120/20 + 1 = 7). That's sort of the equivalent of being shocked and horrified by people descended from immigrants that arrived during your great-great-grandparents' lifetime, at the most recent.And, unless I'm mistaken, FR's dragonborn spread out from Tymanther for pretty much that whole time ("A whole world NOT enslaved by dragons, even a little bit?! IT MUST BE WONDERFUL!") But given the real and meaningful differences, I wouldn't be surprised if they congregate in specific areas in other cities--a "dragonborn quarter" or "dragontown," if you will. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> But oddities like "I don't think they worship gods at all!" should surely come up now and again...and overAlso I have to say: The more I use the word "dragonborn," the more I hate it. Call 'em Tymantherians, call 'em Evans' "vayemniri," call 'em Arkhosians, something, because that oh-so-"functional" name is getting tiresome.As always: it's your world, do what you want with it. But people who have been around and slowly, steadily spreading through the world for over a century...don't feel like something that should be sending many, let alone most, shopkeepers running for the hills and townsfolk to their local Torches-N'-Pitchforks-R-Us. It could--particularly if you intentionally play up the racism, exclusionism, and suspiciousness of the townsfolk-type people in your world. But it's far, far from required.</blockquote>

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