“Do drekir see themselves as the dominant species in the world, or as chewtoys of Fate and larger things?”

Thanks to Dreamwood from Furaffinity for the Question!

I think this is an interesting question as much as it is one of those things that you can’t really answer. The DragonScape is full of thousands of cultures of éldimor dragons and so frankly there isn’t really any one perspective on where the role of people (or any group of people) fit into the whole cosmic universe.
That isn’t to say a sort of anthropocentric viewpoint can’t be found in various places in the lore. The Cydonians of the Cydon peninsula, a new landmass sticking off of eastern Texas in Suyu (america) is a fine enough example. The Chiefdom of Cydonia is one such example, in which there is a Denarch that forms in the mid awakening that directly rules over a handful of distinct tribes within the peninsula as a concrete aristocracy. Their view of the world is very much an anthropocentric idea of the éldimor being what the world was made for, that the trees are for them to build homes and the fish of the sea or for them to eat. Particularly, they view themselves as the aspiring rulers of the world under the name of the Drowned god of the world that was as the inheritors of the new world.
Likewise the Sivilão could be be a culture that argues themselves, their species and most of all their system of society as the dominant force of the world. Fim Éodin itself believes that the society of the éldimor (Sivilão) is what keeps reality itself churning, and a failure of the majority of éldimor to abide by their specific interpretation of fim éodin puts in danger the stability of reality itself. The very event that destroyed the golden sivilào age, The Pulse (which they know as Jãrsta) is associated with a failure of enough dragons to abide their role in the dominant system of reality itself. It’s also why they are so hostile to almost anyone that is not of their õfuth in the post awakening, not just against non sivilào drekir, ormer and mavõtur but other õfuthar.
But that said…
I would go as far as to say that isn’t terrifically common a perspective amongst the éldimor as a diaspora. Of course to again emphasize their cultural perspectives will vary wildly amongst different peoples, places, and times. But I would imagine a lot more wouldn’t view their place in the cosmos as a binary “we dominate” or “we are fucked over by fate”. Rather I imagine much like how a lot of indigenous peoples would come to view the cosmos in our world, I would figure their picture of the world and their place in it would be more systemic.
Especially considering the potential of éldimor to exhaust an environments ability to sustain them, and the dangerous consequences there in as well as the lack of technology to hold such exhaustion back, I feel that dragons would generally understand their lives as a part of the complex web of food, water, mineral resources, and other aspects that sustain them. I don’t imagine seeing themselves as a part of nature would be entirely true, but they definitely would see themselves as people that could have a large impact on it and that an overly avaricious and domineering attitude towards the world that sustains them would backfire entirely. Some cultures may see that type of situation as a sort of naturalism or agroforestry in which they are either a part of that web of systems, or stewards of it. Others may view it more pragmatically, understanding that if they hunt too much, farm too much, or herd too much then they can damage the environment to the point in which it can no longer sustain them.
So, in a managerie of different cultural interpretations across a universe of distinct peoples, I imagine many would reckon their place in the world in the systems both of nature and of their own making and subsistence, rather than as a directly domineering or submissive perspective. Of course those aspects can still exist in their perspectives and are probably common! They just aren’t the simple binary perspectives.

Hope that answers that!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

*

*