I just noticed something that really make reincarnation much easier doable, a 10 HD druid creature can cast 4th level spells, so being able to produce reincarnators, only require us to upgrade the Fungus Forge, to be able to make such a Druid creature.
It's no big problem even if such a creature cost a 100k IM to make, charging 100 IM per reincarnate, mean it would earn 36500 IM a year, meaning it would only take 3 years for it to pay for its creation, so if we manage to be able to create 10 HD Druid creatures, we can mass produce reincarnators.
That makes no sense. Our interactions with Relath and Amrelath have clearly shown that they are not physically addicted to gold. They are greedy bastard who want to be rich.
And hey, they can. They just can't be "owning half a continent"-rich.
It's half of each, dragons want to be rich, which involve having spendable assets, but they also want a hoard, which can include things they never can spend or even want to, they just wont be satisfied having only that in their hoard.
You have to remember dragons are super-humanly intelligent. They would see right though that, they would know the treasure isn't treasure. You have a better bet of imposing the tax and then explaining it. Any dragon who swears to you is likely to be engaged enough with mortal society that they would not fancy social collapse.
It's money, it's just money that there's a cap on spending, we could make it so you could exchange up to 50k of it a year without taxes, but if you want to spend more of it than that, then they have to pay the tax.
And the point of it would be that it was indeed treasure, it was just treasure it's illegal to directly spend, it cost the standard price of gold, you just can't spend it at will, it's essentially made for hoarding, because you paid for it, the government paid for buying the gold to make it, it's just supposed to be taken out of circulation.
But no matter what it is treasure, I did note that they could sell it back to the government, it was just that the more they sold back, the higher tax they would have to pay, meaning the coins do have worth, they are just something you have to spend slowly, to avoid diminishing return.
Basically the coins are a little like a pension fond, you don't have to pay tax on it, but you can't withdraw it all at once, you can withdraw some from it at any time you want, but anything you withdraw will be added to your yearly earnings, and so will heighten your tax.
