I wonder if he's got some sort of mastery that makes that approach harder, like having a constant spell matrix in his human form to transform back into his dragon self, rather than the normal version where you have to actively cast to go dragon and have a matrix to turn back.
This. Going around places on a super fast shadow horse, meeting new people and creatures, getting into places while invisible - that didn't get old yet for me and might never get old (until we explore all the world).
Yeah. Since Dragomas has been the target to beat for 32 years, there must have developed something akin to a metagame with anyone from Magister to Apprentice and even the occasional interested layman making speculation of how to beat him a common watercooler discussion while ambitious Lord Magisters merely drop misleading hints on the strategies they spend half a decade or more cooking up and training for.IF it allows an audience, I would vote to go see it
Something innocuous like Keeper of Keys (because s/he enters everywhere) or Minister of Hydration (inflow and outflow and making sure nothing is poisoned that shouldn't be poisoned) could also be neat.
That, at least, doesn't seem possible, for the same reason Mathilde can't go around with a spell in a matrix in her own body. He's probably got some nice related perks and almost definitely has a mastery in the spell, though.
24 years. If he wins this duel his term will be 32 years. Unless he dies before it's up.
I mean, off-hand I would think the "turn into a Cathayan dragon" part would be the Mastery.
Could also just go with Court Wizard - "It worked for Belegar, so I thought I'd try it out"
That would certainly be my guess in a vacuum, but it's not guaranteed; he learned the spell in Cathay, so it might be that the Cathay-form is simply an alternate 'normal' version.
Master of Doors and Gateways.
Has that been stated? He went there, and he came back with the non-aggression pact carved into Jade. He has the spell. But has it ever been stated that he learned it in Cathay?
