@Background Pony #9210  
Then why didn’t they air this episode on the Ides of March?

@Korora  
Dragons are surprisingly hard to kill. This probably explains WHY they’re such jerks toward each other; each one figures the other dragon can take it.

This whole approving-of-treachery deal has to be new; otherwise the Dragons would have destroyed themselves long since.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Gaius is based on Caesar while Scales is based on Brutus from what I have heard.

@Ardashir
 
What does any presently living character in the show have to do with a character whose probably dead or nonexistent?

I have another question (wow am I ever overthinking this): why can’t Gaius simply swat her like a bug and yank the Dragon Scepter from her lifeless claws? Maybe if a Dragon Lord is overthrown, they can’t reclaim the position? Or was my previous answer wrong and the Scepter gives you the power to control dragons? I seem to recall Spike putting the whammy on Garble when Spike held the Scepter.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant  
No more so than any other symbol of power and authority.

This whole short story is pretty much Crusader Kings 2 in a nutshell. You find or support some poor powerless character, then all of a sudden since they’re amoral and deceptive you end up murdered and invaded and before you can recover they’re on the throne. But because the AI is jacked everything is falling apart. Or because the AI is jacked said usurper suddenly gets the power of Absolute Authority and everything is a vice royalty now and you loose the game because tfw no land.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant  
Doesn’t seem like it.

Does the dragon scepter function like the One Ring or an object cursed with the Want It Need It spell?

Gaius: Come to me If you want to lived

@toonbat  
https://xkcd.com/959/

I propose we call this guy Good King Wingling Sass, because of the way he braved the weather to give aid to the hungry during Christm… The Feast of Steph… Hearth’s Warming D… The Feast of Fire.
 
Also because he looked so sassy when he was sitting with his legs crossed.

@Ardashir  
That seems more likely, given what we’ve seen so far from dragons.

Another potential lesson from this story for dragons: “No one is so weak they can’t be a threat, so never let your guard down.”

@Ardashir  
that and the molt smell

@Dirty Bit  
Seeing and hearing that makes me wonder if this is why adult dragons toss their hatchlings out when they hit puberty. “Okay, you can survive on your own now – now get lost before you knife me in my sleep.”

The Dragon Lord is male. Smolder says, “but the Dragon Lord told her not to be afraid, that he was taking her to the Dragon Lands for a great feast.”

@Mori  
I also like this comparaison by Pierre Desproges  
“Let’s take a man that answer to the name “Albert” and a dog that answer to the name “Kiki”.To demonstrate that the man is more intelligent than the common dog,we just have to led them to the battlefield of Verdun,where the fight is raging on and where bombs make holes in young peoples who then whimper and search for their intestines in the mud of the trenches  
When the capitain yell “Attack !”,we send Albert the man and Kiki the dog  
What do we see ? While the dog run away and go hide in the forest,the man run in the direction of his disenbowlment while yelling DEATH TO GERMANS PIGS !  
Doesnt that proove that the man is more intelligent than the dog ?”  
-Pierre Desproges,Manuel de savoir-vivre à l’usage des rustres et des malpolis, 1981

There difference between a dog and a man:  
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you.

@neo4812  

 
What goes around comes around.

@Ardashir
 
@neo4812
 
He. And yeah, I’ll bet karma is its own magic in Equestria.

whatever gender the dragon lord is saved your ass from the freezing rain and fed and you usurped them and made them experience the same thing you went through? I hope somedragon did the same to you, you little bitch

Aww, he (she?) is being so nice to that sad little pink dragon.