Ok, no. I’m calling bullshit on two fronts:
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If a dragon is hungry, it’s eating the cow right there. So you’re not gonna see a dragon carrying a cow in the first place. If it has babies too young to hunt, it’s puking it up for them.
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How do you think a dragon would carry gold coins? Clamped in their claws as they fly?? No, dummy, they’d hold it in their gullet and spit it out in the pile. So no duh you’ve never seen one carrying gold. Humans don’t have x-ray vision.
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I’m not a murder hobo, I’m just the plumber
Then they curl up and sleep on a pile of their own shit? Im not disagreeing, I’m just a little shocked.
If your shit was shiny and didn’t smell, you might use it for nesting material as well.
Ok there are bad news. Your theory makes a lot of sense when we just evaluate input and output of a dragons den. The problem is that gold is atomically more stable (Au: B/A=7.936 MeV) than carbon (C: B/A=7.468 MeV). That means that you have to explain a huge amount of energy this process consumes. This is alongside the energy that the dragon uses to live and even wastes in the whole fire spitting situation.
Their GI tract is very slow and live live a very long time. They shit like a parking meter, a nickel an hour.
I believe the dwarves are the ones who shit gold, they turn ore into gold. A dragon will attack a weakened dwarf nest, kill the dwarf drones and eat the dwarf larva. Only then will it start seeking out cows, once it has depleted this bounty. This is a good thing in the long run, it keeps disease from spreading rampant between the dwarf broods
This is a lie. All the dragons I know keep geese around.
Sooo we presume then that different food turns into jewels? What about magic items, do the items go in mundane and come out magic?
That’s all left behind by the adventurers trying to steal the gold. But the vast majority of the hoard is always gold.
See, I was thinking that dragons were eating adventurers and pooping the gold they carried. …but then I realized that they’d also be pooping swords and whatnot. I reread the meme and it didn’t mention the rest of a dragon’s hoard (etc doesn’t count). Then I started wondering about the digestive system of dragons. So I’m sure you can see how these mindless memes can lead to a conversation.
Literally their ass coins
Dragons acquired their hoards by threatening to terrorize local villages if they didn’t pay its “Won’t Burninate Your Thatched Roof Cottages” tax.
