I think this is a reasonable way of summarizing what was probably a complicated political and religious situation. The way I see it, there were many variant understandings of dragon-thinking within the Wyrms Mind Collective. Those whose version of EWF was more pragmatic in it's approach to government would end up running the government, those who just wanted to become dragons might go off and become dragons but they would not get entangled in worldly concerns about governments, taxes, etc. It seems natural that this would happen; that the collective would become an empire, run by those interested in running an empire. Whether you class this as cynical, corrupt, more sedate, pragmatic, sustainable , Here-and-Now, or as a confusing mixture of any and all of these is probably a matter for Gloranthan historians to debate, or for Imperial Age Narrators to discover in their games.
Keith
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