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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3009543" data-attributes="member: 7280">Dragen doesn't hate Glasia, else he wouldn't have talked to her so thoroughly. Dragen actually is rather fond of Glasia, as near as I can tell, except for her "young people are stupid" delusions about gods and religion. Which is pretty understandable, given that Dragen is from Karrnath where the The Blood of Vol is common. Dragen isn't religious, but he still reflects a lot of the attitudes and beliefs of his childhood - namely the Blood of Vol's dismissal of the gods thanks to dying in Eberron sucking so badly. So, anyways, even though Dragen has broken with the church he's still a product of his upbringing. Some of the core tenants of The Blood of Vol revolve around how all the gods are in cahoots about promoting human suffering and death. To Dragen, given his experiences, that at least sounds like just good plain sense.Dragen doesn't "hate" the kobold, he's just treating it just like you should expect someone to treat a talking monster of the lowest possible class with an enormous ego. Vhir is Pepe Le Pew or something. Not only is it a talking rat, it's a talking rat that thinks it's better than everyone else that everyone else is listening to and seems to be forgetting that 99% of the other talking rats usually spend their time shouting curses at young adventurer types <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" /> It's not even like Vhir is part of some commonly "civilized" race like goblinoids and such. Add into the fact that the name Vhir looks something similar to the naming conventions of the kobolds that revere the Dragon Below, and Dragen's unspoken connections with some power groups perhaps opposed to kobolds in general (I've been thinking that his Darguunish armor might have been a gift, or at least taken from a comrade), and even if Dragen isn't cognizant of why it's likely enough to make him deeply suspicious.As for the rest of the group, they really haven't made much of an impression at all except for the shifter girl - and Dragen immediately placed her into the category of "able to take care of herself" and stopped worrying. Glasia, with her strange notions about dieties, is just naive enough that she's provoked Dragen to be protective - especially when she might find herself corrupted by some monster from the bowels of Khyber. Dragen, on the other hand, has already been imminently corrupted in his opinion - and he's perfectly willing to do the things he wouldn't want anyone else to do anymore to protect them.And that, is the end of Dragen psychology 101 for today.</blockquote>

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