I think you all are missing @Hussar , please correct me if I am wrong, main concern with this Dragonborn tangent. Hussar already has said its perfectly easy to come up with a reason and work with the DM to place his Dragonborn in the setting. The concern lies in that, despite being a typical PHB species, the the books generally offer no reason for the DM to include Dragonborn in most locations. This means the player playing the Dragonborn will never be able to tie their backstory as deeply as another species to the setting/story locale. Always being an outsider or at best a single household that maybe first or second generation. Rather than picking from an assortment of preexisting groups in the setting like the Flaming Fists or the humans/elfs of the Dead Mire.
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I think you all are missing @Hussar , please correct me if I am wrong, main concern with this Dragonborn tangent. Hussar already has said its perfectly easy to come up with a reason and work with the DM to place his Dragonborn in the setting. The concern lies in that, despite being a typical PHB species, the the books generally offer no reason for the DM to include Dragonborn in most locations. This means the player playing the Dragonborn will never be able to tie their backstory as deeply as another species to the setting/story locale. Always being an outsider or at best a single household that maybe first or second generation. Rather than picking from an assortment of preexisting groups in the setting like the Flaming Fists or the humans/elfs of the Dead Mire.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Pretty sure they accept recruits of any species.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
I think you missed my point. All of my examples were based on reasons from the 5e books. There are book reasons for Dragonborn to be in any location in the Forgotten Realms.
The Flaming Fists is a great example. According to the 5e books, Dragonborn have a reputation as fine mercenaries and have spread across Faerun. The Flaming Fists are a very large mercenary company, so they would have many Dragonborn among them.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Flaming Fist are fantasy Pinkertons.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Like if The Pinkertons and the Teutonkc Knights had a baby.
