>>5552080>>5552043>>5551800>>5551745>>5551691While you come bearing a Dark Gospel of Love, Communion, and Community. However, as you look out at the massive crowd—well, it’s only a hundred or so Reptilians, but it’s the largest collection of Pureblooded Ones whom you have ever seen assembled in one place—and you start to wonder if they are ready to hear it. Your lift your gaze to note the imposing, hooded figures of the elder Serpent Priests, and the ornate regalia of the clan leaders, and the Red Dragon King’s warning eats at you. You remember his earlier advice: the love must be imposed by force, community bound in blood. Your race cannot afford costly infighting and strife, not with the Green Knight bearing down and a war effort ramping up. What you need now is unity.
What you need now is an Antipaladin of the God of Glorious Battle.
“Behold,” you repeat, “the Dragonborn! Your elite troops, born of the blood of the Green Dragon, and of the Red! The living avatars of the long-lost Age of Scales, and scions of our NEW Age of Scales… No, our Age of Darkness! A bold new age for ALL who live in accordance with the True Faith.”
There are murmurs from the crowd, some confused about the difference while others radiate a sense of guarded suspicion. You decide to help them along… But to do that, you’ll put your thumb on the scale without completely upending it. Better to leverage existing beliefs, you reason, than to try and change them all at once.
“The Dragon Kings of old, whose blood runs through the vein of we Dragonborn, were supreme rulers of vast empires. Nagas, Crocodilians, Tortles, Kappas, Kobolds and more! Wyverns and Linorms, Behirs and Basilisks, Demidragons, and more! All manner of the Master Race… Each had its place in the first Age of Darkness. It was an Age of Scales, but because the Dragons and their Dark Deities willed it so…”
This is all innocuous enough. Your listeners nod along, following the familiar flow of another story about the lost glory of ancient days—the True History, which keeps the Master Race’s flagging pride alive and pushes you all to give for the Great Design.
