> My readings had lead me to believe (possibly by mistake), that the
> dragons had helped put Godunya on the throne to restore the ancient order
> and destroy the godslearner government. This would have shown friendship,
> or at least tolerance, between the emperor and dragonkind.
Well, in the sense that Godunya is a dragon, and himself on the throne, and is friendly, or at least tolerant, of himself, I suppose this would be correct. ;-)
> While I would not claim it to be impossible, I would claim it to be
> highly unlikely, and wouldn't the Dragonnewts recognize an ancestor?
> Frankly, I can't see a real dragon bothering. Elder Secrets is far more
> likely to be presenting another of Greg's cultural truths... the
> Kralorelans believe it, so it is true in Kralorela.
I understood you to be asking if Godunya "was" a True Dragon, or "was" the representative of a True Dragon, not about whether the Kralori perspective was correct or not. That the Kralori perspective may be somewhat 'incompatible' with that of the (western) dragonewts, I find myself somewhat untroubled by this, as each of their worldviews is almost _completely_ incompatible with most entities who are neither Kralori or draconic, who would file the opinions and practices of either under 'a right bunch of Nut Loops or similar cereal'. As to which of these many incompatible views is correct, I'd suggest that they all are.
BTW, you seem to imply Greg's some stripe of cultural relativist, which I suspect he'd deny rather strongly.
Cheers,
Alex.
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