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81 - Clearly Dahak just wanted dad's love and attention... :'(

Oh, quit beating that dead dragon-horse; a draconic paternity test clearly revealed Asmodeus was the father! Dahak

What does a dragon do for fun? There's no internet or television.

This becomes remarkably less of a problem once you learn Greater Scrying.

Of course, learning Greater Scrying is something that comes only with age. Many of the less patient of our kind will prefer to not wait until they are of proper age and instead procure a crystal ball (preferably with all the neat upgrades that makes manipulating watching those curious little mortals so fun.)

Of course, crystal balls don't exactly come cheap. And there you have the real thing many of my kindred gather all that coin for.

I sort of agree - but some of the sins would have issues.

1. They're all greed. Even the good ones. That's why they have hoards.

2. Lust? I realize that most dragons can polymorph eventually. (Hence all the half-dragons.) But for the most part Paizo tries to stay PG13 at most. (despite the succubus demon and its grappling) This one could cause issues.

You could probably do the other five without much issue. But the seven virtues would cause even more problems. How can a dragon be the epitome of diligence? How about charity while keeping a hoard? Chastity? They're always found in pairs and said pairs give each other roses etc?

Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, and maybe even gluttony are all doable. But after that... *shrug*

Ahem, I believe there is the preoccupation with virgin maidens some of the depraved of my kindred have, in myth at least.

In addition, lust need not always be for of a sexual nature; there can be many types of lust- lust for knowledge, lust for fame or recognition, or power, for example, power over people, being one of the most prevalent of them.

to me at least it seems that dragons seem to personify the Id, and to some degree all the seven deadly sins, or in general personality faults in an otherwise unstoppable intellect. They're the poster child for why these personality traits are bad, because even with all their intellect, they're still getting killed by adventurers.

generally all the dragons have all the seven sins, but each type of dragon seems to emphasize some personality fault or some base instinct winning out over intellect. They embody the Id winning out over the Super Ego on a grand scale, as they are primal power incarnate.

the hoard is merely an material or physical example of their greed.

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you have to realize, dragons don't really exist, so anything they appear to do is because we think that's what they would do. So, we think they should be the penultimate example of primal power and all the baser instincts that come with that, so they do.

Also, on the digestive tract thing, but... not every dragon breathes fire, so a white dragon would just freeze anything it eats, right?

I will forgive the slight that you say we are merely figments of your humanoid imaginations, but I must offer a correction on something else- dragons as embodiments of sin is primarily a thing of Western fantasy and the cultures and myths it draws from; other superficially similar creatures like the Chinese dragons will vary. So please give us evil dragons credit where credit is due.

Of course, perhaps you humans are going about the question the wrong way. I mean, who WOULDN'T hoard treasure. Certain, you petty adventurers seem to be packing more loot than even we have in our dragon hoards. And you will face the worst of our kind with intense ferocity, but lo and behold, when a meager rust monster or disenchanter comes scurrying along, you flee as if a fate worse than death awaited you.

Some human theorists may say that the first of my kind were human(oid)s who were so sinful they transformed into our ancestors through some sort of twisted Lamarckian evolution. That theory is just absurd to me; if I heard that from somebody, I'd like to- oh what is the phrase- burn him to a cinder? Or maybe for you weak soft fleshy beings it's more, reach out and punch them?

Because I don't trust banks........

Of course some of the more enlightened of us would like to BE the bank. I certainly wouldn't mind becoming so rich adventurers couldn't come after me!