Ok dudes, someone asked me how dragons relationships work. And let me tell you, not great.
Ok so, dragons are pretty freaking adversarial, so the first meeting is usually a territory or treasure thing. That's normal, and doesn't mean she likes you. But then both dragons keep finding excuses to start a feud, like deliberately going into the other dragons territory, burning down a village, killing an enemy or stealing the loot you wanted. Now, this is super tricky cause it's easy to misread the situation like, if she says something like "I have no interest in fighting you" that's not flirty. But if she's like " I don't want to fight a pathetic worm such as yourself" she's trying to get you angry to continue the feud. Usually this ends up in one or more steamy fights that can get pretty serious. When there is a mutual gesture of respect for each other's power BAM! that's it. That's a dragon relationship.
After that the dragons start raiding together. Raiding is like, date night. Word of advice be a show off. Village burning on the first raid is eh, you wanna start big, like bringing a ruin to a kingdom or knocking down a found family of heroes, something memorable. Now, real talk, most dragon relationships don't get past this stage, usually you meet a nice dragon, go on a decade or two of raids then break it off. But if you really hit it off you get to the lair stage.
The lair stage is when you both move onto the same castle, cave system, ruins, captured city or whatever. Wondrous domesticity. You can say things are getting pretty serious, because by this moment you are a major threat to the continued stability of the general area. Normally when two dragons lair, raids by enemy armies and adventuring parties jump in frequency.
And then, after a century or so of lair is when you merge your hoards. Once you merge your hordes the dragons are together for life. Obviously this doesn't happen super often.
