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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erikdenizen" data-source="post: 4371083" data-attributes="member: 31264">Dragons don't carry treasure, dragons go to where the treasure is, kill or rout the treasure owners and then setup a lair where the treasure is located. Dragons are too lazy to move a treasure hoard by themselves and they are too greedy and paranoid to have someone else move it for them.  A dragon's main weakness is its tie to its treasure hoard. Imagine if a dragon did not have a treasure hoard in its lair. Why would it even have a lair? What would stop it from just flying around destroying anything and everything it comes across? Dragonslayers, you say. Nope. You send dragonslayers after the dragon and it just flys far away and just starts doing the destruction thing again. And what fun would dragonslaying be without getting to take a dragon's stuff.  Treasure keeps the dragon tethered. Sure it comes out every once and awhile and burns a few villages and what not but eventually its going to return to its lair because it is going to become paranoid someone is going to steal its loot. Even if it has million mindless constructs  and traps guarding its treasure a the dragon knows the best guardian for a dragon hoard is a dragon. And when it returns the dragonslayers know just where to go to get them some dragon. Its a vicious cycle. Man gains wealth. Dragon kills man and steals wealth. Man kills dragon to get back wealth. Can't we all just get along.</blockquote>