Do Dragons Collect Treasure Hoards?

Is there any indicator anywhere of whether dragons collect treasure hoards?

Wrong fantasy series for that, I think.

It's a typical thing in dragons in various fantasy series. Just wondered if it was true for Final Fantasy too.

Not as far as we know, no.

*looks at all of the dragons we've encountered in the story*

I would say no.

FF dragons are more like Eastern dragons, who very often represent wisdom and water (rivers and streams). These dragons don't hoard treasure the way Western dragons do (since those tend to represent the various vices or are just evil/malevolent creatures who terrorize tiny medieval hamlets).

I remember one legend about a man who rode a celestial dragon and combed its mane with a special comb to cause rain to fall during a drought, but he got too excited or something and combed too much, so the region ended up flooded.

I'm actually not sure traditional Western dragons hoard treasure either. That may have been a Tolkein invention. Typically they roost near a village and demand virgin sacrifices, otherwise they introduce plagues and blights and otherwise threaten the food supply of a region.

As a rule no, though there's no particular reason 'a' dragon couldn't if you're looking to tie that into a RP plot or something.

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Originally Posted by AmemeAmeklin

FF dragons are more like Eastern dragons, who very often represent wisdom and water (rivers and streams). These dragons don't hoard treasure the way Western dragons do (since those tend to represent the various vices or are just evil/malevolent creatures who terrorize tiny medieval hamlets).

I remember one legend about a man who rode a celestial dragon and combed its mane with a special comb to cause rain to fall during a drought, but he got too excited or something and combed too much, so the region ended up flooded.

I'm actually not sure traditional Western dragons hoard treasure either. That may have been a Tolkein invention. Typically they roost near a village and demand virgin sacrifices, otherwise they introduce plagues and blights and otherwise threaten the food supply of a region.

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I think D&D does the treasure hoarding thing with dragons too but if so that was likely inspired by Smaug anyway.

Doesn't look like they collect hoards in FFXIV. I would say it's the opposite - they're quite uninterested in worldly things as a whole.

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Originally Posted by AmemeAmeklin

I'm actually not sure traditional Western dragons hoard treasure either. That may have been a Tolkein invention. Typically they roost near a village and demand virgin sacrifices, otherwise they introduce plagues and blights and otherwise threaten the food supply of a region.

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It's older than Tolkien; he likely drew heavily upon the story of Fafnir from Norse mythology, a dwarf-turned-dragon that guarded the hoard of Andvari, when creating Smaug, and Beowulf features a hoard-guarding dragon as the final opponent of the eponymous hero. Of course, dragons appear worldwide in mythology, so this is mostly a Western European trait of dragons rather than a universal one, and Tolkien popularized the trope of a treasure-guarding dragon in modern fantasy works.

Doesn't seem like it.

The only ones who collect treasure hoards in this setting are the greedy potatoes...and the PC...

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Originally Posted by Seraph522

It's older than Tolkien; he likely drew heavily upon the story of Fafnir from Norse mythology, a dwarf-turned-dragon that guarded the hoard of Andvari, when creating Smaug, and Beowulf features a hoard-guarding dragon as the final opponent of the eponymous hero. Of course, dragons appear worldwide in mythology, so this is mostly a Western European trait of dragons rather than a universal one, and Tolkien popularized the trope of a treasure-guarding dragon in modern fantasy works.

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Interestingly, the First does seem to have an analogy of Fafnir: Gomitt, the S Rank Elite Mark of the Tempest, is a dwarf with a similar backstory. Only, instead of turning into a dragon, he turned into a Davy Jones knock-off.

The only actual "Fafnir" in XIV is a voidsent possessing a dead dragon in Eureka Anemos, and he was specifically designed as a throwback to the notorious monster of the same name in XI (right down to using their abilities from that game).