The training is useful, certainly, but I value the experiences I've had with the cold more so.
[He's eager to get off the topic of dragons. Back home saying the wrong thing to the wrong person about dragons could get a man branded as a heretic. While he isn't home, that particular habit of not discussing dragons too openly is a deeply programmed one. Even when he hired adventurers to help him, he never said much about the Dragonsong War. Not unless he truly had to.]
Since the Calamity my country has been one of snow and ice with storms the likes of which can kill a scouting party in mere moments.
I find the local climate is not so different. Were it a desert, I'd hardly know what to do with myself...
[Something moves behind him, almost creeping through the open doorway.]
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[He's eager to get off the topic of dragons. Back home saying the wrong thing to the wrong person about dragons could get a man branded as a heretic. While he isn't home, that particular habit of not discussing dragons too openly is a deeply programmed one. Even when he hired adventurers to help him, he never said much about the Dragonsong War. Not unless he truly had to.]
Since the Calamity my country has been one of snow and ice with storms the likes of which can kill a scouting party in mere moments.
I find the local climate is not so different. Were it a desert, I'd hardly know what to do with myself...
[Something moves behind him, almost creeping through the open doorway.]