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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6067181" data-attributes="member: 55680">OK we’ve got one hex that implies that kobolds are figments of nightmares escaped from an extra-dimensional prison (27.11) and another that associates them with dragons (13.24). Let’s reconcile them. The Kobold ExodusHex 45.09 Kobolds are the things that dragons have forgotten. Once the father of all dragons asked the darkness behind the moon for a gift and it was granted. Even today, all dragons remember every coin of their hoard, every bauble and every gem. This knowledge fills their narrow minds to bursting and so when they sleep their memories of everything but their hoard flows through their minds like a desert through a sieve. But the memories of a dragon are not like the soft airy things of men, they are definite and they skitter and crawl. Men call them kobolds and are reminded of things half-seen in dream. Kobolds are bitter creatures. How could they not be when the must squabble with rats as their minds writhe with migraine-visions of dancing with the fires of burning cities? As befits creatures born of thought, kobolds are cunning, filling their homes with a thousand traps. They are driven to do this by the certain knowledge of just how weak and puny there are that hammers at their minds every second of their existence. Their days are filled with fear but when they dream they are dragons. Dragons react variously to their accidental offspring. Some file them away in their caverns, forming squirming libraries of memory, some ignore them entirely and some eat any that they can find, hoping to reclaim their forgotten memories. But no kobold dares strike back for if they kill their dragon they will surely die. Instead many kobolds travel to far places to see and do and learn strange things in hopes of capturing memories strong enough to still the draconic thoughts that thrum beneath their hides. They almost always fail. Despite this, it is rare for kobolds to migrate in large numbers. That is why the kobold exodus here is so surprising. Along this bit of the World’s Edge, thousands of the creatures swarm up ropes, ladders, improvised pulley systems and even the rock of the Edge itself. While their fellows climb, other kobolds patrol the thick air on canvas wings. What they are fleeing or where they are going is unknown. Connections:-The migrating kobolds seem to be avoiding the Lost Lighthouse (46.10).-Kobolds did indeed emerge from the Mind Chambers of the Infidel (27.12) but this is because dragons dream such potent dreams (i.e. kobolds) that they tend to bleed over in the dreams and nightmares of other races.-This may explain the behavior of the kobolds of the Nameless Mountain (13.24). Perhaps the dragon will try to eat them when it wakes to reclaim its lost memories. Hooks:-What are the father of all dragons and the darkness behind the moon?-Kobolds often appear in the dreams of others. What effects does this have?-Who are some famous kobolds? What draconic memories are they composed of?-What is the cause of this kobold exodus? Where are they going? Where are the dragons that spawned them?</blockquote>

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