![]() Dragons, it was concluded, must be pathologically avaricious and stingy - kind of like a species of compulsive hoarders with a Money Fetish. More often than not, they don't do anything beyond brood over or sleep on their treasure. People have also long noticed - see that Beowulf quote - that dragons have no apparent use for treasure: they cannot spend, wear or process it. Whatever the reasons, on average dragons show noticeably less interest in other treasures, like silver or even jewels. In some ways, hoard-guarding dragons are no different from other treasure guardians: They make sure it isn't too easy for the hero to get at a desired MacGuffin, and a heap of treasure in itself provides a convincing motivation for a hero to engage in an exciting monster-fight.ĭragons have a peculiarity, though, in that they are especially attached to gold: dragon-hoards almost always contain at least a substantial share of gold. Justifications in-story for why a dragon sits on a hoard, including backstories of how hoard and dragon came together, vary considerably. ![]() Curiously, there is no consensus as to why dragons do this. This trope is especially ingrained in Germanic Mythology - in fact it is hard to find a dragon in ancient Anglo-Saxon, German or Norse legends that doesn't guard gold. ![]() ![]() In some settings, dragons tend to guard hoards of treasure - typically by lying on top of it. ![]()
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