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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8326210" data-attributes="member: 20741">The correct metaphor is angry abishai. It was the spirits of those devils that were literally put into the corrupted eggs that created the Draconians in the first place.The original idea for using the abishai for this was drawn by the DL design team from Gygax's article in Dragon #75. It appears on page 11, here: <a href="https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg075.pdf" target="_blank">https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg075.pdf</a>  When you read it, it kind of suggests itself, doesn't it? An easy fit.To give Draconians any free will to be other than evil was a subsequent retcon which does fly in the face of the premise of how they were created.That was canon from the very start. It wasn't mentioned in the novels though - only in the module. The secret and methodology behind the creation of the Draconians was one of the spoilers that was deliberately omitted from the Chronicles.So unless you read the module or played through to the end of the classic campaign, that fact never likely came to your attention.And as there was far more fans of DragonLance that came to the setting through the novels (where it was never explained) than from the modules, it was easily hand-waved and retconned more than a decade later.</blockquote>