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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 900791" data-attributes="member: 571">"Life has been so much quieter since I ate Billy"---silver dragon motherYoung dragons are rather common, adolescents more common than they need to be in the opinion of some (especially their parents). The older dragons get, the rarer they get; thanks to various events,  with accidents and disease low on the list. "You would condemn a man to years of torment in a broken body when death would release him to a better life. And you call yourself a paladin."---Garas the BlackDragon morality is not human morality. The greatest punishment a dragon can conceive of is to live for hundreds of years as a cripple. Dragons of all species will kill young who are disabled in some way, weak, stupid, or otherwise impaired. 'Tis a rough life dragons lead, and it does them no kindness to coddle them as young when the world will be out to kill them when they mature. The lone exception are red dragons, who will nurture and cherish a particular type of mentally retarded young up to the day the child dies. Most often in early adolescence, though one did live to early adulthood. According to red belief such children are gifts sent to teach them patience and forbearance. Not that must humans can tell the difference."You don't know how old we are. You don't want to know how old we are.---Stephen the WhiteStephen himself was only about 1100 years old (1112) 1112 years old when he said that. But as a group dragons are indeed very old. The modern genus goes back about 50,000 years -making them younger than modern humans, but as a family dragons can be traced back some 150 million years, with proto-dragons going back to the middle Permian."The reason I don't eliminate my competition is because then I'd have nobody to talk with."---Malcolm the BlueThe oldest of dragons, the elder wyrms (Slayer's Guide to Dragons, Mongoose Press and Gary Gygax) are rare in the extreme. You've met three of the eight above. The Silver Whisp (a green dragon) was not lucid the day I tried interviewing him for this overview, and the other four don't give interviews, period. All elder wyrms are considered forces of nature. In the past some have been worshipped as gods... (Have you ever cleaned up after a major pilgrimage?) (I don't think they have, Steve, and I have to get this missive finished... ...Thank you.) ...and others reviled as demons. All dragons with an ounce of smarts take classes. Steve, for example has training as a wizard, fighter, priest, rogue, and druid. (And I have a PHD in two of them.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> [sardonic]He's proud of himself.[/sardonic] (If it weren't for the agreement, Kellogg, if it weren't for the agreement... Dragons are also a pragmatic people, willing to make compromises when such compromises mean greater benefits than being prideful. But, never mistake a dragon's agreement now with a willingness to compromise later. Besides, a favorite dragon saying is, "Revenge is a treasure to be passed on down to the descendents." As the old saying goes, never humiliate a dragon.So there you have the dragons of my world.</blockquote>

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