If you were a dragon, what would you hoard?
To be honest, I’m not really a hoard-y person; maybe it’s because I spent most of the last 7 years living in a foreign country not wanting to collect too much excess stuff I’d eventually have to pack up and ship a long distance, then had to come home at short notice and left behind most of the things I did own. Maybe books… but books are heavy and take up a lot of space, y’know, and who doesn’t have an e-reader these days, even as a dragon? Actually, I think dragon-Chris might hoard maps. Maps of real places and imagined ones; maps that lead to buried treasure; maps of the body, mind and spirit; maps that are scrupulously accurate and maps that are half-dream; maps that help people conceive of the shape of their world and their own place within it.
Are dragon hoards even required to be physical presences, or one specific thing? Hoarding knowledge, whether in the form of e-books, maps, written accounts of myths, or any other, feels like it’d totally be valid.
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