[Nerfnow!!] Classic Fantasy vs Modern Fantasy
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Doesn't even have to be cultural. Think about the actual chemical properties of gold from the stance of the Periodic Table and what it then gets used for in industry.
So dragons don't sleep on gold because of its monetary worth, they sleep on it because it helps them cool down, just like many animals will do when digging a shallow pit then lying on the cooler soil.
So to further consider your good natured hero dragon not only might he have to struggle with his own greed and wrath, he physically needs something like gold in order to stay comfortable.
add in that it's a toxic heavy metal
hell, it's fantasy so put some magic in there that anything made of gold has some chance to absorb avarice and evil and can then radiate it and influence others.
Oh, absolutely. I have a concept going where metals, precious metals in particular, conduct and channel magic, and part of why dragons nest in them is to help recharge their "batteries," so to speak. So there's a biological reason to have a nice hoard. Of course there's "having a nice gold nest" and then there's "I turned my cave into Uncle Scrooge's money bin just because I can."