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<blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 7429836" data-attributes="member: 6786839">I play a dragonborn PC, so I put some time into considering how gender roles might differ when raising children doesn't involve nursing. I came up with some similar conclusions. I decided that a dragonborn clan keeps eggs in a communal hatchery, rather than in the egg-layer's individual house or lair. Since, unlike any real-world reptile, they are tool-users, they can use a hearth fire to keep the hatchery warm; one or two adults, possibly in the age humans consider &quot;grandparent&quot; age, tend the fire, and when they're not adding a log to the coals, they curl up around the eggs which need the most fine-tuned temperature maintenance. This role doesn't have to be exclusive to the sex which lays eggs. All it takes is fire-keeping skills and one's own body temperature.When the eggs hatch, anyone can participate in child-raising. No nursing, remember? Anyone can deliver easily-digestible food (perhaps the adult chews it up and spits it out) to the hatchlings. If the young are fed by a team of adult child-raisers, then they might never know who laid their egg, let alone who fertilized that egg; they would form loyalty to the clan as a collective. Dragonborn start life in the clan's hatchery, and are initially raised by whatever clan members specialized in childcare. When they're old enough for tasks, rather than just free-form play, they transition to apprenticing with the clan's hunters, ranchers, crafters, warriors, etc. Mammal humanoid loyalty to mother, father and &quot;family&quot; would be a foreign concept to any dragonborn who grew up in a clan which operated on those principles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Riley37, post: 7429836, member: 6786839"] I play a dragonborn PC, so I put some time into considering how gender roles might differ when raising children doesn't involve nursing. I came up with some similar conclusions. I decided that a dragonborn clan keeps eggs in a communal hatchery, rather than in the egg-layer's individual house or lair. Since, unlike any real-world reptile, they are tool-users, they can use a hearth fire to keep the hatchery warm; one or two adults, possibly in the age humans consider "grandparent" age, tend the fire, and when they're not adding a log to the coals, they curl up around the eggs which need the most fine-tuned temperature maintenance. This role doesn't have to be exclusive to the sex which lays eggs. All it takes is fire-keeping skills and one's own body temperature. When the eggs hatch, anyone can participate in child-raising. No nursing, remember? Anyone can deliver easily-digestible food (perhaps the adult chews it up and spits it out) to the hatchlings. If the young are fed by a team of adult child-raisers, then they might never know who laid their egg, let alone who fertilized that egg; they would form loyalty to the clan as a collective. Dragonborn start life in the clan's hatchery, and are initially raised by whatever clan members specialized in childcare. When they're old enough for tasks, rather than just free-form play, they transition to apprenticing with the clan's hunters, ranchers, crafters, warriors, etc. Mammal humanoid loyalty to mother, father and "family" would be a foreign concept to any dragonborn who grew up in a clan which operated on those principles. [/QUOTE]

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