It's things like this that Tom puts in that really makes me feel like he reads the forum and that influences what he includes in the comic.Reni wrote:I’ve… only ever been a dragon, so I don’t know…
Just last week, BadFoMo posted:
-------BadFoMo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:43 pm I'm not sure if I should continue holding onto my moronic ‘Vampire: the Masquerade’ inspired theory/transformation interest or not.
I mean, Reni is vague enough that I could continue believing that Nora was one of the first actual Dragons (if not the first) and that all other Dragons after her are Humans/Basitins/Keidran/etc. which she turned into Dragons because she thought they were worthy of such power/turned by others who were previously turned by her for the same reason, but I feel this is most likely just a normal family tree.
Also, consider:
So... who is Reni's father? There are two obvious possibilities; either Reni's father was human too, or he was a dragon who didn't stay around to raise Reni. We actually don't know anything about dragon breeding/raising/family habits. Being the solitary creatures they are, dragons might just meet up to bonk every now and again, and then leave the mothers to raise the children.Reni wrote:I was raised almost exclusively among humans. The only other dragon I know well is my mother, the former “dragon princess.”
Also, if Reni's father *was* human, he most likely would have died when Reni was very young, dragon lifespans being what they are. So Reni would have been raised by a single mother in either case.
Also, for what it's worth, the dragon family tree from last page seemed to have a single line going from parent to child, as if children were born of one parent. This could just be a stylistic choice by Tom, or something that Tom didn't think about, or Reni may have only been including certain ancestors, (e.g. only the women, as dragon society may be matriarchal), or whatever. But it's interesting to note.
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Also, Reni talking about the dragons "not caring" what the Masks have to say seems to imply that the Masks' laws are not like laws of nature, which are inherent unbreakable rules of how reality works, but rather like the laws of government, which are enforced by the powers that be but can be broken, in which case the powers that be will punish you. We already saw with Euchre begetting Raine that he was able to find a "loophole" in the Masks' laws, and now we see again that the dragons can disobey the Masks' "laws".