@Kryptid  
Pretty sure theyre just markings. Like Embers diamond shaped scales.

Dragons have been known to be androgynous in some legends.

Hmm, given the position of the “eyelashes” when his eyes are closed, might they actually be bushy eyebrows instead?

Where did the name Gaius come from? Was there a vote I missed? Staff confirmation on Twitter?

@Lord Seraph  
I don’t think this is the case. Their law suggests they do have writings. It was suggested that this story was made up for the competition.

@PonyPon  
Maybe it refuses to return to any previous owners because only a loser would lose it and it prefers to be owned by dragons who didn’t have it stolen.

@QueenCold  
I would also headcanon that dragons also don’t have any written language. Everything is passed down orally, and on the move being a nomadic race they are. Stories are easy to distort over time.

@PonyPon  
Wow. Dragons can be pushovers if you’re able to lay your hands on their prized McGuffin.

@Red-Supernova  
Once you have it, you’re in charge, nothing can be done.
 
Its primary use is magical suggestion.

So this dragon didn’t do anything to fight back Scales? Do dragons just give up right away once the Bloodstone Scepter is taken by another dragon?

a bishonen?

I like to believe that the Feast of Fire story is not only fictional, but by the end of Hearth’s Warming break Smolder’s learned so much from her friends that she gives the story about the dragon lord a happy ending for them.
 
Judging by the thighs and soft features, this dragon lord being trans is a possibility we shouldn’t rule out and could be based on a historic lord.  
Though more likely this dragon lord was intended to be female, but then the writers wrote “he” into the script. The lord’s mannerisms are rather feminine.
 
Also, this whole story sounds like it could be made up by Garble because it reeks of a power fantasy. It does beg the question why he didn’t just try to steal the scepter from Spike, since that’s apparently all it takes to become the new lord.

OH NO HES HOT

he’s “sensitive”

@darknessRising24  
Indeed.

Has anyone thought of what we should name this Dragon?
 
I was thinking “Trapper” because some people say he’s a trap.

@soundtea
 
@genervt
 
A classic “the farmer and the Viper” tale.

Too kind for his own good.

I’m still curious if EMBER was the one who told this story.
 
As kind of a “Yeah, I know it looks like I’m being weak and sensitive, being friends with ponies, but I know how you bastards think, so don’t pull that shit with me.” statement.

qt trap

@Garro the friendly dragon  
could be fiction, could be real. or there could be some truth to it, the dragon tried to seize it from the dragon lord but nothing happened. could be a spell was cast upon the scepter after this incident. could be this dragon tried to do something like conquer the pony land….. aaand got her ass kicked XD

As scary as the Dragon Lord may have looked. He freaking reached her claw for that poor little dragoness only to be backstabbed by that pink bitch.
 
It’s always Game of Thrones for Dragons
 
Could this have been Torch and Ember’s ancestor?

so if the sceptre can be taken and anyone can be dragonlord i can’t put it past garble to take the staff from Ember.

@neo4812  
@Garro the friendly dragon
 
Same. I wonder if the Pink one is related to Garble. Then again, the story may have just been fiction and not history.

@neo4812
 
yeah i agree