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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4719405" data-attributes="member: 4937">Depends on another question we are entirely unable to answer - how fragile is free will?  Does it survive when mixed with something else?  Hellboy answers the question one way.  Other authors would answer it in another.There are lots and lots of ways that V's action can just go wrong, even if decide for simplicities sake that there are no black dragon sorcerers or that they aren't effected (for example, only relatives with the same subtype as the target individual).She's just escalated this conflict just about as far as it can be escalated.  Suddenly, she's populated the nine hells with a whole outraged race of vengeful black dragons.  At the very least, this is an action that Tiamat cannot overlook.  Her very domain has been threatened.  Death is not the end of anything in D&D.  V also must hope that dragon's cannot become ghosts, and that none have the means to be restored to life.  V also must hope that you can't survive this spell by throwing a natural 20, or by having a death ward in effect, because if you can, then there are likely to be survivors - very angry survivors.  V must also hope that all those hybrids are unloved by the non-dragon relatives.I should also say that for all my theorizing, Rich seems to have weighed into this with ideas of his own.  The actions of the Dragon upon being restored to life are suggestive of the idea that even evil dragons aren't wholly evil and hense are probably free willed beings, capable of both good and evil.</blockquote>

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