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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 256652" data-attributes="member: 177">Sorry, but that doesn't wash.  Methinkus specifically stated that this fighter respects the dragon's view of morality.  Thus, the fighter knows it isn't just a frightful beast.  He knows it is a thinking being of high moral position.  The fact that the locals don't know the truth is of no consequense.  The fighter knows that the dragon is no threat to the locals.  Heck, he knows that by killing the dragon, he's probably putting locals in danger by removing their protector.If the fighter was ignorant, he would be in less trouble.  His intent would then to be to kill a beast.  Of course, if he knew so little about the gold dragon that he doesn't know it's moral behavior, he's probably short on a lot of other data, and is going to get chewed up and spit out by the dragon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mind you, the fact that none of the fearful locals could actually document a case where the gold dragon hurt anyone who didn't deserve it (because it hasn't), should make said fighter wonder.If he desired to kill a Great Red - knowing the moral position of the beast - then he's not contemplating evil.  Your standard Great Red is not innocent.  It's a nasty, destructive, vile thing, and he's doing the locals a favor by getting rid of it.</blockquote>

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