I know. That's why I said dwarfs are inhumanly bitter. Literally. 300 years is still plenty of time for a people to migrate to a new location, develop national identity, get conquered, hold a rebellion, throw off your shackles, have all the revolutionaries die off, and spawn a new generation of children looking back at the deeds of their ancestors.
I feel this greatly simplifies the possible results of talking with the dragon. You created two options. For one of those options you stacked a ton of conditionals and have set the second option as an automatic result if any of the conditions on the first option are not met.
I mean even then grudges don't have to be resolved in blood as I understand it. Its just most of the time its the most expedient and likely scenario that they will be solved.
I can't imagine there's many ways the dragon is likely to have angered the dwarves that don't involve killing some of them, but I suppose it's possible.
Well, under the right circumstances humans can have a pretty strong irredentist desire to reclaim the land of their ancestors, even if they lost it nearly two thousand years earlier.
The only reason we don't have states attempting to enforce their three thousand year old claims is because we don't have states with three thousand year old claims, much less states that were at war for three thousand years.
I know I was being obtuse on purpose lol
You know you keep mentioning that but, this fells like a non sequitur, like why deciding to live in a diferent place mean they are giving up on their culture ? Do you have a citation for that ?
I apologise, even then that's still an impressive list of conditionals to be applied to a sentient who a very real option is brick up a la a cask of amontillado and can be "bribed" with shines of a different kind.
Perhaps, but it feels a bit premature.
Perhaps if its a sun dragon or moon dragon equivalent, but by my understanding, the star/emperor stage were meant to have a bit more control of the old pride. The living through the high points of every species likely would impress upon them that they're not invincible.
That is certainly a theory of property. Here's a competing theory of property: "I've been living in the place for a millennium now it belongs to me."
Moving on to a new topic: How does the Grey College know that there's only one space-time continuum? For that matter, why is there only one space-time continuum? I'd expect the Warp to have one or two of its own, at least; or else for space-time to be not entirely continuous with the various flavors of magic running around the setting.
As I understand it, the Sun, Moon and Star categories are just the names for the dragons that live on Ulthwan which is a reference to their age not their type and all species of dragon live on Ulthwan we just see fire breathers for abstraction purposes in canon, but this is the case in quest.
But, they do appreciate that some squatters are not worth the effort of removing at this time.
