In the subclass of Way of the Ascendant Dragon, it says that your origin may be one of these examples: 1 You honed your abilities by aligning your spirit with a dragon's world-altering power. 2 A dragon personally took an active role in shaping your inner energy. 3 You studied at a monastery that traces its teachings back centuries or more to a single dragon's instruction, or one that is devoted to a dragon god. 4 You spent long stretches meditating in the region around an ancient dragon's lair, absorbing that lair's ambient magic. 5 You found a scroll written in Draconic that contained inspiring new techniques. 6 After a dream featuring a five-handed dragonborn, you awoke with the mystical breath of dragons.
My question is: what the hell is a five-handed dragonborn? Five limbs, or five heads, makes sense. But five hands? It's a very rare thing. Does anyone know what this refers to? Is it some of the lore of some setting?
I think it is just completely made up. Dreams are weird. I don't think it is lore or anything. They could have just as easily said five-eyed dragonborn, five-tongued dragonborn, etc..
Or I could be completely wrong, I'm no lore expert.
Is simply an idea to give cues to your backstory and motivation. You can change this element as you wish and it may give insights to the question that prompts the monk to follow this path.
Perhaps it is a dragon from the plane of dreams/nightmares, a new plane and a new race of dragons that drives the monk to discover a reality too great for him. In his adventure to find this truth he discovers a gateway between these existential planes releasing horrors and forces previously unknown to the world, and he must find a way to close this portal so as not to destroy his own reality. He discovers that the dragon that appeared to him in a dream is actually an entity that wants to restore balance in the existential planes and chose him to do so.
And from here you can create a new and interesting campaign.
These elements are designed to give psychological thickness, a role to your character and at the same time give the master insights to create an interesting story for the campaign.
It's a dream so it doesn't need to make 100% sense and it's supposed to imply you got those abilities from Tiamat.
This was my thinking as well; I initially wondered if it was a misspelling of five-headed but then it's a dream so anything in fives (with hands being more appropriate to a monk) still makes sense in that weird dream-like way.
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In the subclass of Way of the Ascendant Dragon, it says that your origin may be one of these examples:
1 You honed your abilities by aligning your spirit with a dragon's world-altering power.
2 A dragon personally took an active role in shaping your inner energy.
3 You studied at a monastery that traces its teachings back centuries or more to a single dragon's instruction, or one that is devoted to a dragon god.
4 You spent long stretches meditating in the region around an ancient dragon's lair, absorbing that lair's ambient magic.
5 You found a scroll written in Draconic that contained inspiring new techniques.
6 After a dream featuring a five-handed dragonborn, you awoke with the mystical breath of dragons.
My question is: what the hell is a five-handed dragonborn? Five limbs, or five heads, makes sense. But five hands? It's a very rare thing. Does anyone know what this refers to? Is it some of the lore of some setting?
I think it is just completely made up. Dreams are weird. I don't think it is lore or anything. They could have just as easily said five-eyed dragonborn, five-tongued dragonborn, etc..
Or I could be completely wrong, I'm no lore expert.
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sounds just like an experienced dragonborn maybe?
Pretty sure it’s in reference to Tiamat the 5 headed chromatic dragon god
Ninety percent sure it’s in reference to aria at the 5 headed chromatic dragon god
Is simply an idea to give cues to your backstory and motivation. You can change this element as you wish and it may give insights to the question that prompts the monk to follow this path.
Perhaps it is a dragon from the plane of dreams/nightmares, a new plane and a new race of dragons that drives the monk to discover a reality too great for him. In his adventure to find this truth he discovers a gateway between these existential planes releasing horrors and forces previously unknown to the world, and he must find a way to close this portal so as not to destroy his own reality. He discovers that the dragon that appeared to him in a dream is actually an entity that wants to restore balance in the existential planes and chose him to do so.
And from here you can create a new and interesting campaign.
These elements are designed to give psychological thickness, a role to your character and at the same time give the master insights to create an interesting story for the campaign.
It's a dragonborn who's going to have a hell of a time buying the right number of mittens in winter. 😝
This was my thinking as well; I initially wondered if it was a misspelling of five-headed but then it's a dream so anything in fives (with hands being more appropriate to a monk) still makes sense in that weird dream-like way.
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I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.