• Rudee@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Considering its all usually in coins you can spend in town, is the implication that a dragon’s colon is a national treasury mint?

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    They breathe fire from nuclear fusion. And can fly from all the helium that the nuclear processes generate.

  • november@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    This is actually where the aptly-named Dragon Diamonds come from in the Lunar games. I don’t think the protagonists ever figure it out.

  • smeg@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    The gold is tribute, right? Give me gold every year and I won’t eat you

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      2 days ago

      Or, going by The Hobbit, the gold was just lying around next to all these dwarf skeletons when the dragon moved in

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        2 days ago

        Yes but the book explains smaug was drawn there by its riches. Dragons are just greed metaphors after all though the question remains of dragons are drawn to riches themselves or the aura of greed of those who amassed it.

        • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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          It’s an innate trait of dragons to seek out riches, I would assume from the time when Morgoth twisted whatever creatures would eventually become dragons.