I meant it as in the High Elves would have the greatest claim because they would reunite it with its kin, not because it belongs to them like a possession. Because the dragons of Caledor are not here to represent themselves and we can't really contact them directly.
The zoo provides gold and security for the hoard, imperial prestige, college magical support, varieties of food, high level security, comfort, access to whatever the dragon may want, and it doesn't stop the dragon from simply leaving....Are you really trying to say that putting a sapient being in an enclosure and showing it off to gawking nobles against its will is comparable to forcing children eat their veggies?
Seriously, how the hell is it "good for" the dragon?
He finally got to show his video game protagonist skills.
I'm pretty sure it actually does, thats one of the main sticking points
It knows that if it leaves and starts eating people then it gets hunted.
Alot of us would.
Dragon quest!
Except none of that is true, you just came up with it. The imperial dragon, according to canon, explicitly utterly resents the indignity of being a zoo animal.
I really have a hard time seeing the justification for twisting "dominate" and "utterly resents" into "actually, it's just like a job", especially given how dragons are noted to be prideful and willful creatures by nature.
According to the novels, they live in the Dragonspine Mountains and hunt for food in the wild. I'm not really sure what other living expenses a dragon would have?
Why a hoard of course. Dragons use them to attract mates IIRC.
No, specifically it says only he has the strength of will to dominate it, not that he somehow uses his strength of will directly to dominate it like he's a telepath or something, and personality is never even mentioned. To me that reads like he's the only one who's crazy enough to try forcing a dragon to do his bidding, while leaving the specific methods up to air whether that be violence, threats of violence, coercion, magic, or some other method. But regardless of what it is the word choice of domination does not imply its a happy or voluntary relationship on the part of the Imperial Dragon. You do not "dominate" your employee to get them to do humiliating things for you.
Well, presumably if the dragons asked for help the elves would give it out of respect for their ancient alliance.
Hoards are a topic that's never really touched upon for Ulthuani dragons, so I don't really know one way or another.
So this?
You appear to be correct. Looking at the wiki the exact quote seems to be that "Only Franz has the force of will." rather then that Franz dominates him through force of will. Mea culpa on that one. I still doubt its magic that Franz uses since then it would be the magisters "dominating" the dragon rather then Franz himself but it does make for some less charitable reading of what goes on between Franz and the dragon.
Probably, yes.
Only if imperial law recognizes dragons as people with rights to ownership and such. Which considering 99% of the Empire and the Dwarfs' interactions with dragons consists of them being rampaging monsters, I rather doubt. A less charitable reading would be that it's like giving a squeaky toy to your dog. The dog has no legal ownership over the toy, nor any sort of legal rights to stop you from just taking it away whenever you feel like it.
"Dominant" might not but "to dominate someone" definitely does, especially when it's in the context of getting that someone else to do things they don't want to do and consider humiliating.
What Asrai delegation? Or is the delegation itself hypothetical?Totally unrelated but now im picture the Arasai delegation during the elector meet stumbling into frederick, they did not figured out that yes the screaming murrder guy was in fact that important.
Arasai representative: What you are doing here?
Freddy: Me? The whole point of the elector meeting is that me and my peers be here, what you doing here?
Hypothetical of course, this assumes that they may gotten curious about the empire afther freddy litle stunt.
