A couple of recent threads about drakes got me thinking, since dragons tend to take great interest in newly awakened drakes and attempt to obtain their service to go work for them in a number of ways if you were a drake which dragon would you want to end up working for? Since you can only have ten options I just put down the main great dragons so if you'd rather work for another great, regular dragon, or organisation like the Draco Foundation vote other and say in a post. I curious to see which will be most popular.

I'm not too familiar with that entire list, but I think Hestaby would be OK.

Of course, sometimes you don't have much choice...

Lofwyr: "Work for me!"

Drake: "Um...no?"

Ghostwalker, not because I think it's a good career choice, but because I just really want to know what's going on there...

There's only one choice for a Homo Sapiens Draco Leviathanis: The Sea Dragon

Probably Rhonabwy (sp?) the Welsh dragon, because you could listen to rockin tunes all day and get blazed on deepweed.

I think you mean Celedyr. Wales is kinda densely populated as far as dragons go. They have it almost as bad as the AGS.

Perianwyr, so he could make me the head DJ at his club.

I had a former drake character who already worked as a bouncer, he'd probably take that option too.

But unlike overweight eagle land, Wales always had a thing for dragons. Look at their flag!

Lofwyr, because he at least is clear on what he wants; materialist power.

Sure, he's cold and ruthless, but so are all the great dragons. Only with Lofwyr do you have a clue on what to offer him if you want to change his mind; the rest are all too mysterious to effectively argue with.

What makes you think that? You really think that's all Lowfyr cares about?

Ghostwalker. He seems to be the most interesting.

I think Arleesh would be like a ramped up Indy Jones movie every day

Lofwyr. Because he's going to win.

Perianwyr or Damon. The two fun Dragons.
Else, Masaru, the quiet one.

This flag's made for flying atop castle walls. - Great country.

I voted for Lung. He´d offer the best learning opportunities I think.

Schwarzkopf ... I mean ... Prague + Magic ... how cool is that?

Not a bad choice either.

Wow, yeah, Schwartzkopf is a great choice, I forgot about him, because UMT hasn't gotten any love this edition.

Masaru. Because he's the least powerful of the greats so I'm hoping he'd give me a little more leeway to act as I see fit.

Yup! Plus he is cool without the huggy feely pretentions of the late (but Great) D.

Hestaby. She is moe.

Celedyr? Nah, he's more into computers and ancient languages. Rasumichin could have meant Rhonabwy since he's apparently a lover of music and singing (makes you wonder what sort of Welsh male voice choir he'd put together) and got left the Silver Songbird in Dunkelzahn's will but it's more like they mean Perianwyr as he's the dragon that's crazy about music and got left Dunkelzahn's literal warehouse of a music collection.


I don't know, for all his power he's not infallible. Hestaby managed to defeat him fairly handily in the Rite of Succession over ownership of the Jewel of Memory and connected position of Loremaster.


Well except for all the Welsh people in it. I mean, it isn't even a proper kingdom.


For a choice I can't really decide. Lung seems like a decent way to go since I've got a general like for eastern ways of living/doing things and how eastern dragons often have some metahumans as semi-family looks good. As Caine mention Arleesh and a constant run of Indian Jones missions tracking down and recovering ancient magical artifacts that are too dangerous to leave to humanity sounds fun and it's a worthwhile task. Schwarzkopf because even if you wind up pulling teaching assistant duty every so often you've still got university life, Prague, and cheap Czech beer to keep you going although I'm sure he'd also find other things for you to do as well. Perianwyr for the music. Celedyr since I have an interest in computers and ancient civilizations plus he's located in the UK which is a bonus. Or Hestaby as she seems to be the closest to a Dunkelzahn replacement.

I like Aden. He supports equal treatment of all metahumanity, and aside from destroying Tehran and killing millions, he's been pretty cool with methumanity

Ryumyo. At the last second, kick him in the Dragon-Groin and steal all that power he's been borrowing to turn into a spikey blonde haired dragon

As a sometimes bouncer myself, I can state that turning into a small dragon wouldn't do anything to intimidate most patrons if they've already had a few. Probably try and tug the tail.

What was the name of the dragon that raced the bullet train?

I like your style, and you would get paid trips to Glastonbury every year. I really do miss the compulsion power being part of the Path of the Wheel Bards bag of tricks.
/You all want to buy my Album /compulsion.

I know Ryumyo was the first seen by passengers on a passing bullet train near Mount Fuji in Japan, but I don't recall offhand whether he raced the train or not so it might be another dragon.

Oh, he didn't use his dragonfrom at his dayjob (technically he never used it at all...).

None of them. Because even drakes are still crunchy and taste good with ketchup.

Big D- he is going to give a lot of lee way in your actions and not care if you come in late or leave early.

To be fair, a dragon only eats another dragon's drakes.

And if you're not associated with any dragon, then each one will assume that you are.

I'd go for Other -> None. Down with Drake slavery!

And this isn't Highlander. There's always another dragon out there. So you're still crunchy and taste good with ketchup to somebody. Since that's the case anyway, might as well be free for the little bit of time you have before being a snack.

Edit: Or don't make drakes. I couldn't because I have a completely unnecessary and irrational hatred of them, due to Mercury. Like kenders, they're about the only two things I will warn players about being heavily biased against. They're unfair associations and stereotyping, but I'll be fair enough to make them clear up front.

Personally I don't think that particular stereotype exists in SR, esp. not SR4. It's a carryover from Earthdawn and AFAIK none of the dragons have explicitly said that drakes are their servants.

If they really were as sought after as you imply then drakes would come with a Hunted flaw.

It's mentioned somewhere (RC?) that drakes do seem to be preferred by Great Dragons as servants when possible.

What makes drakes such attractive servants anyway?

They are draconic, but not dragons. So, there is the relation but without the glimmer of direct competition.

I've got to say Celedyr, personally. Guy knows that language is the means through which the world is created. Also, he has the most direct experience with the power of technology. There exists the possibility that he may be the secret father of the modern Matrix..

This is exactly what we need more of in science fiction/fantasy: All powerful entities to come teach us stupid humans how to do things. God forbid humans possess any originally or inventiveness of their own. We need aliens to teach us about microwaves and microchips, we need immortal elves to guide us through history as our greatest inventors and leaders (such as DaVinci or King Richard the Lion-Hearted), and we need dragons to teach us how to create the Matrix.

Yep. Exactly what we need more of.

Wait what?
No, Celery woke up AFTER the matrix was created, like the Rest of the Dragons, right?
Also, he was cought and had a datajack forcibly implanted into him, if i remember correctly . .

Wrong dragon Celedyr wasn't the datajack dragon it was Eliohan.

Aaah . . i see . . me and my bad memory concerning names <.<;,

I happened to have the adventure book on my desk, I cheated and looked it up.

I think you're taking a post meant in humor way too seriously.

Dunkelzahn, because he's dead.

I remember reading something saying that the Great Dragons hate the idea of turning a sentient race into slaves - so they created Drakes and enslaved them instead.

I always got the impression that it was more of an arms race sort of thing. It only takes one great dragon to start building up an army of drake slaves to make all the other greats worried.

Isn't that why they kicked out the Denairastas clan? Because the daddy Dragon wouldn't stop screwing around and making dragonkin elves?

Noooo, the modern Matrix. Matrix 2.0.

It's more of a case of an all-powerful entity co-opting a source of power so that he can try and use if for his own ends.
His pet company, Transys Neuronet merges with Erika and and Neruonet to form NeoNET, which provides the huge majority of the wireless backbone for the new non-sim-only Matrix.