So I have a character I'm working on called maple (he's a tabaxi) and he's married and his wife is a dragonborn. And it got me wondering what is the the marriage customs of dragonborns ? Like is it the same as traditional marriage or different like has this been covered officially in anything? Cause I'm wondering if the traditions were different from ours that maybe maple would follow the marriage customs of his wife's culture over his own.
if it has been covered, it would be 3rd party, because there is no way to do that kind of thing without offending a LOT of folks, lol.
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Well if you were to come up with marriage customs for them what would you imagine them being?
Oh, now that's a question!
Let me think (which is code for read up on the race because I have to identify the specific points)...
Clan based
Caste based
Devotion/dedication value
Independence value
Ok, now we do some projections from that, and apply the knowledge base of Earthly systems...
Ok, I've got *something*. Not sure you will like it, but it works off typical customs found in cultures that have the four key points identified. Clicky the spoiler to see it.
The Clan is invested in the success of their members, and in the recording and structured keeping of the complex genealogies and histories of their lines. As dragons, they emerge from their shells and are cared for by their parents, raised to fit intot he caste into which their family is a part to carry on the duties, to know what their role in the clan is, what their station in the clan is, and how their clan lives.
This impacts the courting process. permission must be obtained from the parents and the Clan leadership, in part to obtain the best possible spouse price and to ensure the proper one is offered, but also to ensure that they do not disrupt the place and position, and therefore the Clan's safety and stability. They do not make arranged marriages because this would conflict with the customary expectation of independence, but they do not often allow that independence to interfere with the duty to Clan and caste.
Spouse price is exchanged by both families, a common tradition within both clan and caste systems. The goal is to offer the family something of value and need, and it is always positioned as a gift, both in the formal "to get agreement to the union" as well as the informal "we will turn to each other to strengthen our bonds in this union, and accept this duty".
The courting takes place entirely on the terms of the potential spouses, and they only ask their respective families and the Clan leadership once they are committed to each other.
Once all the necessaries are arranged, they choose an auspicious date (usually chosen by the eldest of each family) often something of import to their particular deities. On such a moment, they gather with a Clan leadership witness, close family and friends, and swear a binding oath before a Priest to place their devotion to each other before the Caste and befor ete clan, and to pledge their union to the Clan. This is a typically solemn ceremony, and involves symbolic eating of shells (for fertility) and use of breath weapon combined.
TO mark and show their affection, they adopt an armband of dragon bone of the sort that is ancestral to their spouse, often ornately carved and many times fashioned as the engagement or betrothal gift and symbol of their devotion -- working in the clan and family symbols as well as the pet names they have for each other. This is then worn on the right bicep for the rest of their lives, unless death or the Clan leadership orders them to remove it, or it is destroyed.
Should it be destroyed, they destroy the matching one together, and create a new pair as a couple -- or as a family if they have children. of late, the young have begun to pass these on to their children or to create ones fr their children that are worn on the left biep, thus uniting them as a single force against al outsiders.
While it is rare for them to find ouve outside their own kind, the Clan leadership will often allow such, provided the responsibilities and duties owed to the Clan are still held dear -- and even more so if the member from outside seeks to be adopted by the clan. Those who would leave such are presumed to have stolen their spouses, and are in trouble should they ever come across other dragonborn.
There you go. I hope it is ok.
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Marriage is a religious ritual, and so has nothing to do with dragonborn, and everything to do with religion. If you worship Lathander, you get married at dawn or some such, and if you worship Loviathar you get married in a [REDACTED] - regardless of race.
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I believe a more accurate way of putting is that marriage is a cultural ritual.. So what traditions a dragonborn, or anyone else, is likely to follow to is probably gonna depend on where the person grew up.
This fr I was asking because of cultural reasons dragonborns as a race have this down cultures there's a reason Thier known as a honourable race and it's because the enviorment they grew up in raised them to be that way. So nah the union of two people isn't tied to religion because that would be ridiculous and dismissive of other cultures and Thier cultural practices and traditions.
But yeah I'm open to hearing other peoples takes on what they personally think a dragonborns cultural approach the the union of two people would be which is what we would know as marriage. ( in Thier own culture it may not be nessarily called marriage but is the equivalent of it)
Which to specify on the characters a bit for the ones I mentioned maple is a trans man tabaxi his wife is a cis female dragonborn. His wife works as a doctor/Apothecary while maple works as a detective he met her after she ended up patching him up and just it ended up happening a couple more times. They eventually ran into each other outside of that and would start to spend time together as he suggested helping her forage for herbs and various plants for her apothecary. And this just went from there. Maples a pretty charming guy very much does on his wife and finds her incredibly charming. His wife is incredibly blunt and honest and stoic but she is kind and it comes from a place of care and takes her patients concerns and worries very seriously. She's the kind of doctor you go to when you want a second opinion.
Hey guys lets keep things on topic to the thread please and only answer the question that i have provided. let me reword and remind of the question.
When i say what do yous think the marriage customs and traditions of the dragonborns would be around the topic ? i merely meant the process of uniting two people together in a binding relationship. it doesn't have to be some offical contractual stuff or like what OUR preception of marriage is in todays work or historically accurate. this is a fantasy world use you imagination i want to know that if you were to decide what a dragonborns EQUIVILENT of what a marriage was what would it be what would it involve is there a specific tradition that maybe would be carried on in specific clans or families of dragonborns? like plate smashing or something idkcould there be stuff related to different elements based on the element the dragonborn has like fire related ones maybe having something to do with lighting candles or lantrens ect.
Yeah, there's no actual answer to your question. You got a suggestion about what they might be like. You got some (still relevant) topic drift, because this is an internet discussion forum, and that's how they roll.
There's no answer, because there's no single Dragonborn culture. If one's drawing from D&D lore, the Dragonborn of the Forgotten Realms would have different practices than those of Eberron. And really, those customs shouldn't be monolithic, because there shouldn't be only a single Dragonborn culture on either of those worlds. (What are human marriage customs on earth like?)
If you could tell people what the Dragonborn on your world are like, they might have more suggestions. You might also find yourself answering the question yourself in the process.
im not looking for a real answer just looking to spark a conversation around the topic to get a glimpse at the creative minds of others
[also ps the message was removed but the topic was drifting into argumentative territory which that isn't what i want on my thread i just want a civil fun discussion on a topic that peaked my curiosity is all]
So, the reason a lot of that other stuff got brought up is because the question was asked about marriage customs. Let me give a few of the things that apply in the concept of marriage customs:
Courtship (Who attracts, who is attracted, what signifiers are used, is permission required or presumed, familial engagement)
Gender Roles (Who is responsible for what)
Lineage (whose line is stuff passed down through)
Familial Roles ( this one has a bunch of sub-parts -- essentially, who "owns" the kids, who is head of family, what duties to children owe to their parents)
Kin Relations (who is related to whom and how)
Record Keeping (small communities will work to reduce marriage of closely related folks, large communities will want to track for inheritance)
Inheritance (who inherits what, and does marriage change that -- if the man becomes a part of the woman's family (to use standard het terms) does he suddenly lose inheritance in his family?)
There's a few more items that all feed into this, and that culturally operate as a rippling feedback loop -- so these things all impact other aspects of a culture which in turn reinforce the nature of the relationship, and so when external forces strike, it ripples out.
With family being at the core of all social bodies, this then ripples out beyond the narrow confines of just that one thing. And that's why I can make somewhat reasonable guesses based off so little information. The more cultural information, the more stuff I have to trace the way that custom is influenced by the nature of these things and come fairly close to a core idea for a bit of ability to describe something like that.
Now, scary part is that there are only so many answers to all of these things. They can be assembled into a series of small tables, for example (I did that like 30 years ago, and I keep wishing I still had that but I'm too lazy to do it all over again). And each thing changes the others slightly, so the more you know the more accurately you can describe something -- and the less you know, the less accurately you can describe something.
Yes, I could just make it up out of whole cloth -- but I have always liked to have something that feels grounded, feels possible, feels probably, and for that we have to at least try to base stuff within the constructs of what other people will see as probable.
I could just have easily said that they don fake wings and attempt to re-enact the mating sequence from one of the McCaffrey books, hoping they don't die from the plunge. It *is* a fantasy world, after all, so within that line such a thing is equally possible to the couple each taking a bite from the shell of the other to cement their bond and proclaim their rebirth while "ensuring fertility."
I could have them do a handfasting, where their hands are bound together ceremonially, before witnesses, and they become a pair forever more -- no fancy anything. But doing that doesn't change all that other stuff, and all the rest of the crap (the basis of why some things are done and how they are done) depends on all those other factors.
Because those other factors are why the rituals and customs exist.
(also, yeah, I get excited about this stuff and I know a lot about them. Do you have any idea how rare it is for me to be able to share it? lol I am a sociologist, psychologist, and religious studies person, that's what the silly letters after my name are for. And most of what I do with it is things unrelated to why I ultimately ended up in all of those fields -- making up fantasy crap for D&D -- no joke.)
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oh yeah i didnt have a problem with your answer i really liked that you thought about it genuinely and gave your own appraoch on if you were to make up thier customs and all that jazz around it thats how it would be :3 do you think that the different elements of dragons would have an effect on thier custom? [also when you say shell do you mean egg sgells or sea shells because if sea shells i would find that very ammusing to see a poor tabaxi struggle to eat a shell for the sake of respecting his partners culture]
oh yeah i didnt have a problem with your answer i really liked that you thought about it genuinely and gave your own appraoch on if you were to make up thier customs and all that jazz around it thats how it would be :3 do you think that the different elements of dragons would have an effect on thier custom? [also when you say shell do you mean egg sgells or sea shells because if sea shells i would find that very ammusing to see a poor tabaxi struggle to eat a shell for the sake of respecting his partners culture]
well, it would depend on the edition, in terms of the different dragons having an impact on creating their culture, lol. But, in general, yes, I do. Historically, Dragon types have had particular personality traits tied to their coloring and their breath weapon, and those have been presumed to be a "standard" across all of them, so yeah, there would be certain cultural aspects in place that encourage that kind of behaviors and personality development -- ifthey have a larger social system.
Specifically, I mean the shells of the Dragonborn individuals themselves. So, dragonborn egg shells. That came from hatching, and certain clan traditions of saving a bit of the child's umbilical cord for the same purpose. The exchange of shell and the nibbling of it (eating eggshells for the poor tabaxi must have been a shock, even more when he realized it was part of *her* shell) is meant to convey that they are now "one" unit, so, that they come from one shell made from two shells -- a ritual way of saying they are born to be together, while also suggesting fertility (because eggs are the actual product of fertility, and traditionally people do marry for the purpose of creating family, and family is usually presumed to include children, even if =no one actually expects them to exist or come along.)
I got the egg bit from the description of the dragonborn themselves -- they hatch.
I don't have dragonborn. I also don't have traditional D&D dragons, lol (mine are *really* angry and rightfully so, but I can't say much because it has to do with a later stage adventure).
So it was kinda fun for me to whip something up that I hadn't done before.
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huh i like that idea alot with the eggshells then [also because the idea of maple eating eggshells is very ammusing but anything for his wife. as for kids well they wouldn't be able to have them traditionally idk if they would adopt either for now though they are without children.] But yeah i could see him traveling with her to her homelands because he wanted to learn more about thier culture and also get the approval of her family. also just realised i could put pictures on here so here is maple for anyone curious as to how he looked.
I recommend going as far away as possible from our modern day beliefs and rituals if you plan to create them a culture. Our current western and westernized mainstream marriage culture is very young, and, in terms of world history, it's also very religion-specific and narrow. The spectrum is incredibly rich if you consider all sorts of minority religions and cultures and all the native cultures throughout history.
So if you want something specific, then think of something really different that arises from their own history and their own religions. Otherwise you can just have a generic monogamous marriage with some ceremonial dragonborn details.
So I have a character I'm working on called maple (he's a tabaxi) and he's married and his wife is a dragonborn. And it got me wondering what is the the marriage customs of dragonborns ? Like is it the same as traditional marriage or different like has this been covered officially in anything? Cause I'm wondering if the traditions were different from ours that maybe maple would follow the marriage customs of his wife's culture over his own.
if it has been covered, it would be 3rd party, because there is no way to do that kind of thing without offending a LOT of folks, lol.
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Well if you were to come up with marriage customs for them what would you imagine them being?
Oh, now that's a question!
Let me think (which is code for read up on the race because I have to identify the specific points)...
Ok, now we do some projections from that, and apply the knowledge base of Earthly systems...
Ok, I've got *something*. Not sure you will like it, but it works off typical customs found in cultures that have the four key points identified. Clicky the spoiler to see it.
The Clan is invested in the success of their members, and in the recording and structured keeping of the complex genealogies and histories of their lines. As dragons, they emerge from their shells and are cared for by their parents, raised to fit intot he caste into which their family is a part to carry on the duties, to know what their role in the clan is, what their station in the clan is, and how their clan lives.
This impacts the courting process. permission must be obtained from the parents and the Clan leadership, in part to obtain the best possible spouse price and to ensure the proper one is offered, but also to ensure that they do not disrupt the place and position, and therefore the Clan's safety and stability. They do not make arranged marriages because this would conflict with the customary expectation of independence, but they do not often allow that independence to interfere with the duty to Clan and caste.
Spouse price is exchanged by both families, a common tradition within both clan and caste systems. The goal is to offer the family something of value and need, and it is always positioned as a gift, both in the formal "to get agreement to the union" as well as the informal "we will turn to each other to strengthen our bonds in this union, and accept this duty".
The courting takes place entirely on the terms of the potential spouses, and they only ask their respective families and the Clan leadership once they are committed to each other.
Once all the necessaries are arranged, they choose an auspicious date (usually chosen by the eldest of each family) often something of import to their particular deities. On such a moment, they gather with a Clan leadership witness, close family and friends, and swear a binding oath before a Priest to place their devotion to each other before the Caste and befor ete clan, and to pledge their union to the Clan. This is a typically solemn ceremony, and involves symbolic eating of shells (for fertility) and use of breath weapon combined.
TO mark and show their affection, they adopt an armband of dragon bone of the sort that is ancestral to their spouse, often ornately carved and many times fashioned as the engagement or betrothal gift and symbol of their devotion -- working in the clan and family symbols as well as the pet names they have for each other. This is then worn on the right bicep for the rest of their lives, unless death or the Clan leadership orders them to remove it, or it is destroyed.
Should it be destroyed, they destroy the matching one together, and create a new pair as a couple -- or as a family if they have children. of late, the young have begun to pass these on to their children or to create ones fr their children that are worn on the left biep, thus uniting them as a single force against al outsiders.
While it is rare for them to find ouve outside their own kind, the Clan leadership will often allow such, provided the responsibilities and duties owed to the Clan are still held dear -- and even more so if the member from outside seeks to be adopted by the clan. Those who would leave such are presumed to have stolen their spouses, and are in trouble should they ever come across other dragonborn.
There you go. I hope it is ok.
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I would imagine a courtship kinda similar to bird mating rituals.
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Marriage is a religious ritual, and so has nothing to do with dragonborn, and everything to do with religion. If you worship Lathander, you get married at dawn or some such, and if you worship Loviathar you get married in a [REDACTED] - regardless of race.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
I believe a more accurate way of putting is that marriage is a cultural ritual.. So what traditions a dragonborn, or anyone else, is likely to follow to is probably gonna depend on where the person grew up.
This fr I was asking because of cultural reasons dragonborns as a race have this down cultures there's a reason Thier known as a honourable race and it's because the enviorment they grew up in raised them to be that way. So nah the union of two people isn't tied to religion because that would be ridiculous and dismissive of other cultures and Thier cultural practices and traditions.
But yeah I'm open to hearing other peoples takes on what they personally think a dragonborns cultural approach the the union of two people would be which is what we would know as marriage. ( in Thier own culture it may not be nessarily called marriage but is the equivalent of it)
Which to specify on the characters a bit for the ones I mentioned maple is a trans man tabaxi his wife is a cis female dragonborn. His wife works as a doctor/Apothecary while maple works as a detective he met her after she ended up patching him up and just it ended up happening a couple more times. They eventually ran into each other outside of that and would start to spend time together as he suggested helping her forage for herbs and various plants for her apothecary. And this just went from there. Maples a pretty charming guy very much does on his wife and finds her incredibly charming. His wife is incredibly blunt and honest and stoic but she is kind and it comes from a place of care and takes her patients concerns and worries very seriously. She's the kind of doctor you go to when you want a second opinion.
Hey guys lets keep things on topic to the thread please and only answer the question that i have provided. let me reword and remind of the question.
When i say what do yous think the marriage customs and traditions of the dragonborns would be around the topic ? i merely meant the process of uniting two people together in a binding relationship. it doesn't have to be some offical contractual stuff or like what OUR preception of marriage is in todays work or historically accurate. this is a fantasy world use you imagination i want to know that if you were to decide what a dragonborns EQUIVILENT of what a marriage was what would it be what would it involve is there a specific tradition that maybe would be carried on in specific clans or families of dragonborns? like plate smashing or something idkcould there be stuff related to different elements based on the element the dragonborn has like fire related ones maybe having something to do with lighting candles or lantrens ect.
Yeah, there's no actual answer to your question. You got a suggestion about what they might be like. You got some (still relevant) topic drift, because this is an internet discussion forum, and that's how they roll.
There's no answer, because there's no single Dragonborn culture. If one's drawing from D&D lore, the Dragonborn of the Forgotten Realms would have different practices than those of Eberron. And really, those customs shouldn't be monolithic, because there shouldn't be only a single Dragonborn culture on either of those worlds. (What are human marriage customs on earth like?)
If you could tell people what the Dragonborn on your world are like, they might have more suggestions. You might also find yourself answering the question yourself in the process.
im not looking for a real answer just looking to spark a conversation around the topic to get a glimpse at the creative minds of others
[also ps the message was removed but the topic was drifting into argumentative territory which that isn't what i want on my thread i just want a civil fun discussion on a topic that peaked my curiosity is all]
So, the reason a lot of that other stuff got brought up is because the question was asked about marriage customs. Let me give a few of the things that apply in the concept of marriage customs:
There's a few more items that all feed into this, and that culturally operate as a rippling feedback loop -- so these things all impact other aspects of a culture which in turn reinforce the nature of the relationship, and so when external forces strike, it ripples out.
With family being at the core of all social bodies, this then ripples out beyond the narrow confines of just that one thing. And that's why I can make somewhat reasonable guesses based off so little information. The more cultural information, the more stuff I have to trace the way that custom is influenced by the nature of these things and come fairly close to a core idea for a bit of ability to describe something like that.
Now, scary part is that there are only so many answers to all of these things. They can be assembled into a series of small tables, for example (I did that like 30 years ago, and I keep wishing I still had that but I'm too lazy to do it all over again). And each thing changes the others slightly, so the more you know the more accurately you can describe something -- and the less you know, the less accurately you can describe something.
Yes, I could just make it up out of whole cloth -- but I have always liked to have something that feels grounded, feels possible, feels probably, and for that we have to at least try to base stuff within the constructs of what other people will see as probable.
I could just have easily said that they don fake wings and attempt to re-enact the mating sequence from one of the McCaffrey books, hoping they don't die from the plunge. It *is* a fantasy world, after all, so within that line such a thing is equally possible to the couple each taking a bite from the shell of the other to cement their bond and proclaim their rebirth while "ensuring fertility."
I could have them do a handfasting, where their hands are bound together ceremonially, before witnesses, and they become a pair forever more -- no fancy anything. But doing that doesn't change all that other stuff, and all the rest of the crap (the basis of why some things are done and how they are done) depends on all those other factors.
Because those other factors are why the rituals and customs exist.
(also, yeah, I get excited about this stuff and I know a lot about them. Do you have any idea how rare it is for me to be able to share it? lol I am a sociologist, psychologist, and religious studies person, that's what the silly letters after my name are for. And most of what I do with it is things unrelated to why I ultimately ended up in all of those fields -- making up fantasy crap for D&D -- no joke.)
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oh yeah i didnt have a problem with your answer i really liked that you thought about it genuinely and gave your own appraoch on if you were to make up thier customs and all that jazz around it thats how it would be :3 do you think that the different elements of dragons would have an effect on thier custom? [also when you say shell do you mean egg sgells or sea shells because if sea shells i would find that very ammusing to see a poor tabaxi struggle to eat a shell for the sake of respecting his partners culture]
well, it would depend on the edition, in terms of the different dragons having an impact on creating their culture, lol. But, in general, yes, I do. Historically, Dragon types have had particular personality traits tied to their coloring and their breath weapon, and those have been presumed to be a "standard" across all of them, so yeah, there would be certain cultural aspects in place that encourage that kind of behaviors and personality development -- if they have a larger social system.
Specifically, I mean the shells of the Dragonborn individuals themselves. So, dragonborn egg shells. That came from hatching, and certain clan traditions of saving a bit of the child's umbilical cord for the same purpose. The exchange of shell and the nibbling of it (eating eggshells for the poor tabaxi must have been a shock, even more when he realized it was part of *her* shell) is meant to convey that they are now "one" unit, so, that they come from one shell made from two shells -- a ritual way of saying they are born to be together, while also suggesting fertility (because eggs are the actual product of fertility, and traditionally people do marry for the purpose of creating family, and family is usually presumed to include children, even if =no one actually expects them to exist or come along.)
I got the egg bit from the description of the dragonborn themselves -- they hatch.
I don't have dragonborn. I also don't have traditional D&D dragons, lol (mine are *really* angry and rightfully so, but I can't say much because it has to do with a later stage adventure).
So it was kinda fun for me to whip something up that I hadn't done before.
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huh i like that idea alot with the eggshells then [also because the idea of maple eating eggshells is very ammusing but anything for his wife. as for kids well they wouldn't be able to have them traditionally idk if they would adopt either for now though they are without children.] But yeah i could see him traveling with her to her homelands because he wanted to learn more about thier culture and also get the approval of her family. also just realised i could put pictures on here so here is maple for anyone curious as to how he looked.
I recommend going as far away as possible from our modern day beliefs and rituals if you plan to create them a culture. Our current western and westernized mainstream marriage culture is very young, and, in terms of world history, it's also very religion-specific and narrow. The spectrum is incredibly rich if you consider all sorts of minority religions and cultures and all the native cultures throughout history.
So if you want something specific, then think of something really different that arises from their own history and their own religions. Otherwise you can just have a generic monogamous marriage with some ceremonial dragonborn details.
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