Editing Age of Dragons: Hunter Dragons (section)

==Society and Culture==

What most dragons and mortals refer to as the ''Ashen Kingdom'', the ''Hunter Dragons'' call the ''Skies of the Free People''. This vast swathe of land includes plains of long grass, cave-run hills and tracts of open veldt. It is the land which the ''Hunter Dragons'' claim that the Mother Goddess placed in their care, and they view the ''Ashen Dragons'' who claimed it from them millennia ago as invaders and defilers. The ''Hunters'' see that thanks to the ''Ashen'', the heart of this land has been replaced with the wasteland of a bloated and decadent civilisation. While other breeds might see the ''Ashen Kingdoms'' as a triumph of civilisation (with its sprawling metropoli, its fertile fields of crops and fine vineyards and its well built network of roads) the Hunters see them as nothing less than an abomination upon the land.

For as long as they can remember, the ''Hunters'' have been fighting a losing battle against the spread of this cancer of civilisation, and year by year the natural world is being replaced with the unnatural. Though the ''Hunters'' are physically and spiritually strong, they lack the infrastructure, raw cunning and mortal military support of the ''Ashen'' breed. 

Even though there are (at present) twenty seven ''Sky Tribes'', each with a dozen or more ''Hunter Dragons'', and even though there is only one ''Ashen Kingdom'' (with a mere two hundred or so ''Ashen Dragons'') it is too often the forces of the Ashen who are hunting the Hunter Dragons. The ''Sky Tribes'' struggle to survive, and are reduced to hit and run guerilla tactics. The ''Hunters'' know that if they can't find some new resource or new strength, they will likely lose what lands they still have within a century or two.

With this threat hanging over them, the ''Hunters'' cannot help but see both ''Ascendancy'' and ''Alliance'' as lesser enemies (though they are enemies nonetheless). The desperate pleas of ''Solar Ambassadors'' to bring them into the ''Alliance'' have for the most part fallen on deaf ears. Only a single tribe - the ''Talons of Open Sky'' - has joined the ''Alliance'', and they have done so only because of a foolish preemptive strike by the ''Ascendancy'' on them earlier in the war. Because ''Hunters'' tend to identify with their tribes rather than with the breed as a whole, the rest of the breed have seen little reason to follow the ''Talons of Open Sky'' into a war that they see does not concern them.

The ''Ascendancy'' have had even less luck recruiting ''Hunters''. The usual inducements of arcane power and wealth do not tempt ''Hunter Dragons'', and only a handful of corrupted ''Hunters'' have ever defected northwards. 
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