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Dragons are long-lived, intelligent creatures. Like all such, they exhibit a wide range of character traits and personalities, with two overriding tendencies: the natural aptitude and habit of “taking the long view” due to their lifespans (just as elves do), and...
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@TheEdVerse
Hello Mr.Greenwood :}
I am creating a gay dragon character based in your wonderful Forgotten Realms setting, and I was wondering if dragons marry/show long term affection, or if there is any credence to an obsidian dragon mating for life with a copper dragon.
Thx!
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...an innate arrogance or at least self-centredness—how much, and how this affects their dealings with others, vary with the individual; at one extreme is narcissism and a fierce territoriality, tolerating no other dragons in the demesne they consider “theirs.”
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At the other end of this scale are dragons who need the company of other dragons, or they feel lonely; when dragons “grow up” with three or four siblings, this is common among those siblings.
So, some dragons mate never, others mate once or twice in life, with...
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...brief courtships or just what we might call “horny one-night stands” ere they part again to resume their own lives, and about a third of all dragons show some sort of long-term affection. Faithful married pairs are rarer; perhaps a sixth of all dragons: ...
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...partners who share a demesne, a lair, and a hoard; these usually hunt together and work together, so are particularly deadly to other dragons. Formal weddings are nigh-unknown, for lack of officiants or a desire to tell the world, but weddings of real personal..
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...performance (spending decades or centuries together) aren’t unusual at all. Published canon lore down the years, from RPGA adventures to Len Lakofka and Jim Ward DMing at tables I’ve played at, has given us quite a few instances of mixed-species dragon...
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...weddings/partnerships, though the norm is for reds to mate with reds, greens with greens. Dragons who can naturally shapeshift (as opposed to deliberately casting a spell) have a higher incidence of partnering and mating with non-dragons. So there’s nothing at..
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...all barring a partnership (lairing together, fighting together, flying together on food hunts) that isn’t based on laying eggs and having young (there are dragons who slay or even devour young, their own included). In other words, two male dragons could...
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...partner, or two females. Eggs can be bought, sold, or traded among dragonkind for same-gender partners who want to raise families.
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