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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pyske" data-source="post: 1554559" data-attributes="member: 3567">Did I mention a handful of dragons?OK, so here's the story with the island, for those who are interested:Dragon blood is a magical substance which retains emotion and "attitude" for lack of a better word.  It also doesn't decay, but when it becomes part of a creature, it warps that creature to be more magical, as well as affecting its emotions.  This is where creatures like manticores come from.  Dragons have a strange sort of reincarnation, in that a dragon born from their blood inherits the temperment they had at the time.  Dragons can only be born from sufficiently concentrated dragonblood.The dragons of the area have set up the island as a sort of "wildlife refuge", a place to gather all the creatures they find which have dragonblood in them.  This gets the blood concentrated in a smaller area, and lets them shepherd the creatures to make their lives as pleasant as possible (to avoid further corrupting the dragonblood with negative emotions).Trivia:  Dragons colors are determined by their overall "nature" and attitude.  Dragons can and do change colors during their lives, as their outlooks change.  This change takes a while, as the dragonsblood gives their feelings some "inertia".  Evil dragons don't want to be evil (since that also implies unhappiness and negative emotions), but are prone to black moods, violent tempers, etc.The point is, that the manticores and such aren't likely to be cooperative, but even if they want to be, putting them in unpleasant situations (like a war) may just generate more nasty critters in the future. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />She's one of several main movers.  I'd describe her as the BBMAG (MA = "morally ambiguous").  Depending on the PCs agenda, she may be a major ally (if they are hostile to Rome), an opponent (if they are Roman "opressors"), or just a resource (if they say neutral or loyal to the town over it's factions).  Then of course there's personal opinion, as well.  She's not entirely ruled by her politics. . . . . . . . -- Eric</blockquote>

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