>So a begning Dragonewt would be rated
>VIRTUE FLAWS
>Aggressive13 Passive 17
>Brave 13 Cowardly 17
>Energetic 13 Lazy 17
>Stubborn 13 Docile 17
>Dependable 13 Unreliable 17
>"Young Sssssspotted Beak, you will never asssscend to dragonhood if
>you do not clean the ritual incense bowls before every sssssunset – a
>good `newt issss a dependable `newt. I suppose now I must admonish
>you using the Martial Art of the Tailed Rebuke."
Is this the right way round? You seem to be saying that a Dragonewt must learn to be aggressive, brave, energetic, stubborn and dependable. I understood it to be more that a Dragonewt must be able to choose, at will, whether they will be aggressive or passive, or dependable or unreliable, in a particular situation... The sin, for them, is being enslaved by the routines and passions of their lower minds (or something like that). So:
"Young Sssssspotted Beak, you will never asssscend to dragonhood if you *always* clean the ritual incense bowls before every sssssunset. Such dependability is a mark of your failure to progress to a higher level of draconic consciousness. A good `newt issss sometimes an unreliable 'newt, and sometimes a dependable `newt. I suppose now I must admonish you using the Martial Art of the Tailed Rebuke. Or not."
Hence the reason why humans think that all dragonewts are crazy...
Stephen
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