Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

“Love is friendship that has caught fire”
–Ann Landers
“Hate is distrust subjected to arson. Especially the part where the arsonist sticks around
to watch it burn”
-Anonymous
In order to use this chapter, you’ll have to
have read the Storytelling chapter in the
World of Darkness Rulebook. While there’s
probably sufficient space here to go over all
of the topics covered there, that wouldn’t be
very sporting and frankly the redundancy
would be pointless.
Much of the Dragon game is about
maintaining and improving a building and
its surrounding community. Each player is
going to have a Province, and it’s your job
to make that Province as real as possible.
Your stories will be frail and your group
disinterested if you fail to properly develop
your setting. That, and the threats to the
status quo of each province. This chapter
provides some starting points for developing
your Dragon World of Darkness.
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with
Eternity Eternity
Eternity
There are precious few stories in
which the Dragon is the protagonist.
Usually it stands as a monster to be slain, or
a mystery to be studied. Sometimes,
especially in modern fiction, the Dragon
stands as a guide to push heroes in the right
direction (sometimes violently). The
Chinese tradition depicts dragons as
unknowable forces of nature. But still, in all
of these instances the Dragon stands as an
ancillary character.
We could delve into the Dragon as a
political image but considering the groups
that use it as their symbol it is best not to dig
too deeply there. So what’s life like from
the dragon’s perspective? There’s no way to
tell without anthropomorphizing the fire-
breathing lizards. Luckily, that’s what
we’ve done.
Dragons are durable, powerful, longlived
and feared. The Oroboroi are formerly
human and possess a singular frailty like
that of precious stones. Though this frailty
is not expressly emotional, it is symbolically
so. What does it mean to live forever, only
to watch everything you love wither, die,
and crumble to dust? Now consider this is a
consequence of indulging in power. Couple
the loneliness and guilt of a life like this
with the self-loathing knowledge that choice
made life that way, and you’ve got a
Dragon: The Embers game.
As a storyteller, it’s your job to make
your players regret their decision in joining
the Oroboroi. This is a more delicate
process than it sounds. If you snatch away
every happiness as it reaches its climax,
your players and likewise their characters
will become jaded and introverted.
Likewise if you allow the players to perfect
their environment you marginalize the mood.
Ideally you want them to be aware of
conclusions but not paranoid of them.
Practically, you want to make the players
more than uncomfortable but less than
miserable.
The The The lingering lingering lingering threat threat of of Extinction
Extinction
In the World of Darkness
Dragonkind is on its way out. There’s no
(or little) hope of propagation and the selfdestructive
nature of the Oroboroi condition
spirals the species towards oblivion. After
all, Oroborus cannot survive forever on the
meat of its own body.
It’s important to keep this truth in
mind while you’re forging a chronicle.