Dragons Or Gods?

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Who Would You Root For?


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This might be obvious enough for some people, but I'm still curious to see the consensus.

Picture this: You're a mere humble farmer who owns a small, but high-quality plot of land that allows you to keep yourself and your family afloat. You're generally distant to any and every political issue, as most of your time is spent tending to your crops in order to ensure a good harvest.

One day however, an interesting piece of news reaches you. The dragons, a supposedly dead race, have started a war with the gods.

You try to keep to yourself, as you always do, but even you'd find that difficult as the news you've ignored increasingly grows more concerning as the world is slowly being plagued with battles of a large scale. Supporters of the dragons (and the dragons themselves) are destroying towns and cities. Strangely enough, they only target settlements known for being places of worship. The little ones, like yours, they usually leave alone—sometimes even helping the least fortunate by gifting them with treasure.

Each of the gods' churches preach their deities' messages, and they all point to one thing: hatred for the dragons and their followers. If you, as a backwater farmer, choose to cheer for one side without openly voicing it out loud, who would you root for?
 

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Why not a dragon god? Best of both worlds really
 

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This might be obvious enough for some people, but I'm still curious to see the consensus.

Picture this: You're a mere humble farmer who owns a small, but high-quality plot of land that allows you to keep yourself and your family afloat. You're generally distant to any and every political issue, as most of your time is spent tending to your crops in order to ensure a good harvest.

One day however, an interesting piece of news reaches you. The dragons, a supposedly dead race, have started a war with the gods.

You try to keep to yourself, as you always do, but even you'd find that difficult as the news you've ignored increasingly grows more concerning as the world is slowly being plagued with battles of a large scale. Supporters of the dragons (and the dragons themselves) are destroying towns and cities. Strangely enough, they only target settlements known for being places of worship. The little ones, like yours, they usually leave alone—sometimes even helping the least fortunate by gifting them with treasure.

Each of the gods' churches preach their deities' messages, and they all point to one thing: hatred for the dragons and their followers. If you, as a backwater farmer, choose to cheer for one side without openly voicing it out loud, who would you root for?
A peasant wouldn't know better, so pagan gods.
 

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God.

Why you ask?
Read all of it again.

Dragons are destroying places and killing fellow humans who worship God.
They offer gold and help if you don't worship.
Plus, they have declared war on God.

Now just replace the word dragons with demons.

Also to note that God themselves haven't harmed any human settlements who side with dragons (unless @Lorelliad edits the original message.)
 
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What does it say?
What is my view of the gods and churches?
What does... what say? :blob_hmm_two:

You're not at all religious by any means, as you believe if you work hard you can provide for yourself. But you do sometimes turn to prayers if the going gets too hard.
What if I worshipped Tiamat? Which pie would my finger land in this conflict? ?
Idk, are you a Dragon Cultist? :blob_hmm_two:
 
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The newspapers. Do the media align with the churchs?
Somewhat. The general populace reads issues worked on by experienced bards and reporters who travel the world.

They're often neutral, but the issues containing information about the war seem to paint the church in a slightly better light than the dragons (most likely because they don't destroy settlements).
 
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❕Answer is placed assuming the thread owner wants it for story-writing purposes.


God.

Why you ask?
Read all of it again.

Dragons are destroying places and killing fellow humans who worship God.
They offer gold and help if you don't worship.
Plus, they have declared war on God.

Now just replace the word dragons with demons.

Also to note that God themselves haven't harmed any human settlements who side with dragons (unless @Lorelliad edits the original message.)

I think this is the objectively correct answer.
Some of the greedy people might align with dragons for the chance to climb classes and gain wealth, but they most likely would be politicians etc, not farmers
 

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Well, gods.

Because they can pretend to look like humans. These hypocritical bastards feeding off of faiths.

Dragons, as arrogant as they are, would not go to that level to garner an ant's support. Even if they decide to go for human mode, they will definitely show off their scaly side.
 
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