Re: Dragon's, EWF remnants and Truedragons in the rest of Genertela

From: valkoharja <rintasaa_at_rXhVJIQA_j7Jo3CFPWD1MkZqoPGReXFLWIM2o52IyA8CSgshco6vHYcM6TR9qk8ALpm>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:54:46 -0000

• In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Lawrence Whitaker" <lawrence.whitaker_at_...> wrote: <snip>
  > Dream dragons are thus a material realisation of a True Dragon's
  > unconscious musings. They take physical form but have no anchorage
  > in the mundane world and little concept of who, or what, they are.
  > Intellectually, dream dragons are relatively simplistic although, as
  > a manifestation of a True Dragon's dream-state, they are certainly
  > intelligent and able to interact with their surroundings. However,
  > no dream dragon ever exhibits any true depth of character.
  

I see this differently. Newly created Great Dragons are propably rather simple. They revel in their power and their freedom, and the sheer joy of existence. There is no limit to their life though, and if they aren't killed they can grow old cunning and very "real".

> But tangible as dream dragons are, dreams do not last forever. They
> change and dissipate as the dreaming mind shifts focus, and so that
> physical, fire-breathing dragon that crouches on a bed of gold today
> might be gone tomorrow, dreamed out of existence as easily as it was
> dreamed into it.*

Again, I disagree. The True Dragon may have long forgotten the dream that begat a particular Great Dragon, but the dragon will not disappear. Parhaps some of them do, but others are more like set free to find their own purpose.

  -Adept