>>5413689>>5413712>>5413741>>5413810>>5413845>>5413894>>5413900>>5413906It flies in the face of what you’ve been taught, raised to believe… Even the pragmatic prejudice which you have exercised and enforced back in the Bloodrise. With your heart newly-opened, though, and so many hopefully faced turned to yours, you find it difficult to deny these aspirants their ambition. After all, you have less dragon-blood now than the Junior Novice, crouched in a corner and licking himself. Whatever you were RAISED to believe, you have since learned the truth: your power came from the convention-defying meddling of a Degenerate mother, augmented with your own strength of spirit. Is there any reason a dwarf, kobold, or dark elf cannot do likewise?
“A noble bloodline is established by a founder with a noble spirit,” you proclaim, with absolute certainty.
You wonder if the Serpent Ascendant is watching. Does he approve?
“The original elven nobility were the children of gods,” one of Princess Jazkarmel’s assigned attendants says, a little uncertainly.
“Gods who abandoned you?” you ask pointedly. “Gods you reject? Gods who your nobles, souls aflame with righteous fury, turned against and now scorn?”
That silences him. Now those two guards, and all those in your impromptu congregation, listen as you explain the philosophy which you understand to be at the heart of your campaign—your own burgeoning Dragon Kingdom.
“Monsters, mutants, hybrids, the lowborn… They may be born worse, but this simply means they have to work harder to climb. Rise, and take glory for yourselves! Prove your worth! If you have the spirit of a dragon, you can BE a dragon.”
