Dragon Caught in Amber (Warhammer Fantasy)
Blackout
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Tough question. We need someone well versed in the lore of the setting, Brettonnian lore and this story's take on both of the above.
Fortunately, I know just the guy.@Blackout, what's your take on this?
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I think it'd take a truly dire situation for Yara to tolerate anyone riding her.
Plus let's be honest as much as dragon rider fiction likes to present such partnerships as a union of equals a lot of the time they really aren't.
Yara: So mister Questing Knight why should I let you ride on my back?
Questing Knight: I have a really big sword that I can use really well.
Yara: That's nice. My teeth are swords, my claws are spears, and my breath is death. Plus I'm a wizard. I think I can handle this without you riding me like some beast of burden.
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The Cathayan Royal Dragons would nod in approval of Yara Trueclaw rejecting the concept of individuals riding Dragons as if they're glorified steeds.
somewhatLazy
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Time to share my very favorite post about dragonriders of all time yet again.
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I always figured they'd be like marines on a ship- the dragon plucks them off and drops them where the dragon needs a thing done, while it keeps to the sky to deal with peer enemies. Going inside buildings or recovering fragile items, stuff dragons could use a runabout for.
But Yara can do such things herself. Prefers doing such things herself, even.
Gofers and servants can just as well be carried in a basket below the dragon's chest.
Imperious
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Depends. In the combination of Seraphon and Malekith for example I'm pretty sure Malekith is the more dangerous of the pair. In the books Malekith even saves Seraphon's life after she gets her ass kicked by Imrik and Minaithnir and has to run away, with Malekith's spells being what stops their pursuers from catching them, but of course Malekith is something of an edge case.
That said Bretonnian knights are fairly tough dudes who sometimes have magical power. I could see one of the better questing knights with something like, say, the Virtue of Heroism, being able to hold his own in a fight Yara might struggle with. But I also don't see Yara ever allowing one to ride her.
Remember, Bretonnian Knights peak at feats such as one managing to kill three wyverns by himself while armed with nothing but an arrow (Gilles) or charging by themselves into an entire undead army and not being seen for days until the army crumbles and they're found with its vampire lord's head in their hand (Landuin) and in general humanoids like elves and humans have a much higher peak to their abilities then real life humans.
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K von Carstein
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If that ever happens, it's unlikely to be before decades have passed in-universe. This story seems to be about a dragon learning to fit in human society, not a draconic love story.
An Amber Dragonflight huh? That does sound interesting and scary at the same time. The potential mate for Yara Trueclaw would be The Imperial Dragon or Karl as I nickname him.
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Yara is an extremely young dragon.
Even if she'd ever be interested in that, it'd likely be decades off and probably outside the scope of the story.
Even if she'd ever be interested in that, it'd likely be decades off and probably outside the scope of the story.
Imperious
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If you thought that the MC of the story being a giant, young flying lizard would stop shipping wars, then you thought wrong
Roth963
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Now I had the image of Yara one sidedly swooning over ancient dragons like some tween girl over popstars.
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Just caught up. Before reading this story, I'd never imagined I'd tear up from someone paying a bar tab. This is a very good story.
For what it's worth, Ulthuan and Athel Loren seem to be the exceptions when it comes to draconic abodes. Everywhere else, dragons seem to like lairing in cold places like caves, mountains, and Norsca.
Wait, produced? Closest I could find here is in WFRP 4e: Middenheim - City of the White Wolf, pages 10 and 46, where it just says Middenheim has a problem with dark magicians because the Wellspring of Ghur hid them from witchsight. I don't know that the guild itself was the source of some of those dark magicians.
Immune to physical mutations, but they mentally mutate more than any other species.
While proofreading WFRP 4e: Lustria, I saw it said that dragons got sleepy because of the warmer weather and pointed out this contradiction the High Elves army book lore about them getting sleepy because of cooling mountains. It was confirmed to me that it was a discrepancy and that the 4e game line would stick with the Lizardmen army book's warm weather explanation to keep from adding further confusion.
For what it's worth, Ulthuan and Athel Loren seem to be the exceptions when it comes to draconic abodes. Everywhere else, dragons seem to like lairing in cold places like caves, mountains, and Norsca.
I don't think that fits too well with the latest cutting edge lore of The Old World. There it says that in the time before the Old Ones, the world was home to a bunch of warring leviathans, and the dragons were the ones on top. The great onslaught of the daemonic incursions was too much for them, but an age filled with normal warfare is an age in which they should be thriving.
Nagash isn't Nagash if he isn't insanely petty.
My own personal opinion is that that's less an abstraction and more a mistake.
Ok but Theodore is simply built different so for him it makes sense.*whistles nonchalantly while hiding Theodore Bruckner and his native S5 under the chair*
Man should've charged for healing the horse. Makes sense he didn't though, given he can't be used to needing money.
That's the name of Theodore Bruckner's demigryph. From voice lines in Warhammer 3, I think the Carmine Dragon's name is "Encarmine".
WFRP 4e, page 21, letter written by a Magister:
Not the most intuitive place to find that bit of lore, and it's not present at all in Winds of Magic, but there it is.
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Mopman43
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I think that's just another way of saying 'Carmine'.
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Thank you, I had a lot of fun writing that scene.
Dieter Helsnicht, also known as the Doom-Lord of Middenheim, was a member of the Wizard's Guild before becoming a Necromancer.
While I don't think it's explicitly stated anywhere, he was according to his own backstory, "once a great and respected wizard who lived in the Empire city of Middenheim in the Age of Three Emperors". Within the context of 4th edition lore introducing the Wizard's Guild, it feels obvious to me that he must have been a member and product of the Guild.
I am not hugely impressed with the Old World lore. I consider it mostly a lore pinata to be looted for cool new additions, but I am not going to go out of my way to align my writing with it.
It is also a point of pride for the Amber Order that they never work for money.
Fair enough.
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Sorry to come back to this but it was bugging me. Is there any reason that you think Dragon Ogres avoid the more southern parts of the Worlds Edge Mountains and Mountains of Mourn?