>> > Kralorela is not considered to be heretical by dragonkind.
>> The western dragonewts _do_ consider it heretical. Look at the
>> Elder Secrets Book p22 or the Genertela Book where also on page
>> 22, it sez "Priests and magicians practice dragon magic, though
>> they are accused of heresy by western dragonewts".
>Interesting variant interpretation.
It is not a variant interpretation. Reading the Elder Secrets reference would reveal that "The famous Scholar Wyrm of Heortland voices an old complaint when he says the Kralori claims cannot be, "because the Kralori are humans"." Hence the Dragon Pass 'newts cannot quite stomach Kralorela's existance as it is beyond what they understand about Draconism.
>I read this to mean that there are
>heretical Priests and Magicians in Kralorela (i.e. Path of Immanent
>Mastery and others), not that all Priests and Magicians in Kralorela
>are heretics.
It doesn't say that they are heretics, it merely says that the western dragonewts considers them to be heretics. After all, the Immanent Masters would hardly call themselves heretics, would they?
Secondly if the quote was meant to refer to only bad draconists, surely it would have qualified its statement in some way instead of tarring virtually all kralori priests and magicians?
>My feeling is that there is disfavor toward the Emperor and the
>Exarchs because they tolerate and use groups like Immanent Mastery
>to run the country.
I do not think that the Dragon Pass 'newts would know very much about distant Kralorela to distinguish between Good and Bad Draconists there. All they would know is that humans live there practicing dragon magic.
Certainly many Kralori themselves do know of Good and Bad Draconists, but then they live there whereas the Western Dragonewts don't.
>This doesn't change the published fact that there is one or more wings
>of mounted Dream-Dragons if Kralorela, although they might be coerced
>into service.
Was I somehow contradicting this?
>> Every Emperor since Daruda is a True Dragon, that is why they are
>> called Dragon Emperors.
>It has always been a confusion to me whether Godunya serves a True Dragon
>as his representative, or is considered to be a True Dragon in human form.
> Who is the real Dragon Emperor?
Godunya _is_ a True Dragon, cf Elder Secrets p16 where it calls him the "Emperor Dragon". What prevents a Dragon from taking human form, considering that they are capable of so much else?
>Were the EWF really trying to create another Dragon Empire like
>Kralorela, and got sidetracked?
Their stated aim, as described in the Glorantha Book, was to summon the Grand Dragon and bring back the Golden Age. The Oslir river was to be its spine, the Rockwood mountains its wings and the volcanoes of Caladraland to be its fiery breath.
So, no, they weren't trying to create another Dragon Empire. They were trying to bring back the Golden Age and got sidetracked into creating a Dragon Empire.
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