[Nerfnow!!] Classic Fantasy vs Modern Fantasy
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This is why, in my adopted dragon story I'm working on, 99% of dragons are dicks. They fly around taking whatever they want, because they're big, powerful, and naturally magical. They're the definition of power corrupting. Their culture revolves around accumulating wealth and lording it over everything else. They don't HAVE to be evil and had a more noble history, but why would they be anything else if left unchecked?
The only reason the hero dragon isn't a dick, is because he was raised by humans and is still just a lovable little guy. He has to struggle with the fact everyone else justifiably hates dragons, and he has to struggle with his own greedy, wrathful tendencies bubbling under his friendly nature.
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.