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

From: Lawrence Whitaker <lawrence.whitaker_at_Lwln0ozZwqqv9mdGWomx3lLGaHpgMvpcYjK8-MLCzEc7kVUQ8TYYHlJ08I>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:12:57 +0100


Don't know if it's of interest on this topic, but here's how I covered Dream Dragons in the Dragonewt book...

*The True Dragons sleep and while they sleep they dream. Their dreams are vivid and magically powerful; so powerful that they break free of the dream state and manifest in the mundane world as living, breathing creatures that exhibit the qualities and desires (or those uppermost in its mind) of the True Dragon who has dreamt it into existence.

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. Dream dragons are, at best, the manifestations of one or two, perhaps three, base instincts or desires of the True Dragon who created it. They are therefore easy to understand, with no prolonged agendas, and simple, instinctive motives that may be no more complex than 'find food' or 'kill anything not like me'. Alternatively they may embody deep, noble and idealistic goals such as destroying Chaos, teaching gods how to behave, and simple exploration and inquisitiveness. Until the dream dragon acts, there is simply no way of knowing what motivates it or what its actions are likely to be.*

*Even those dragons that have been slain, dream, because although their mortal bodies have been set to one side, their immortal minds are still active across the Void. Indeed, dragons like Aroka and Sh'kaharzeel may be the most dangerous of all because they dream, sometimes, of vengeance against those who killed them, and their dream dragons are motivated only by the simple, yet horribly powerful compulsion of revenge at any cost.

Dream dragons are a rare occurrence in Glorantha. The EWF offer prayers to the Cosmic Dragon and the Great Dragon to Be for more dreams to become tangible so that they might try to harness the power of the dream dragons in their Great Project. The desire is to capture and question a dream dragon, retaining long enough to gain divine insight into the True Dragon mind to fuel their immense creation. 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.*

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