Quote from: Pat;1146897They were mostly peaceful kingdom burnings, and all the princesses that were eaten were alt-monarchic human supremacists.

Wait until the dragonborn weigh in...

I fucking love you guys.

Well an idea I had, is that Dragons are sort of Natural Nerve Stimulators for the worlds they are in. What Dragons do is naturally cultivate and generate Leylines (Even sometimes called Dragonlines).

Alterning leylines requires large periods of time, power, and influence. And Dragons do all of that. They like lairs which become fulcrums, they are largely spread apart from each other allowing for a better spread of stimulation. Going by Ying-Yong philosophy and the like, Dragons don't so much so wear their colors on their sleaves as much as the entire universe is aligned with their colors.

Its their planet, your just living in it.

I like to base my depiction of dragons on mythology and literature. So my world building doesn't neatly segregate dragons by color, breath weapon, environment, and so forth. In fact, I don't even treat dragons as a "natural" species like typical D&D worlds do. My world building treats dragons as expressions of the magic fields (i.e. leylines, dragon lines) and the primordial chaos. Some dragons are tiny dragonets that serve as best friends for heroes, some are mindless beasts whose only drive is hunger, some are intelligent and driven to collect things, some have variable numbers and types of limbs and heads and other chimerical parts, some are benevolent gods of the rains, some are wicked and cruel, some like to court human beings and have children by them,  some are fantasy heroes in their own right, some are nymphs or giants from the waist up, etc.