Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
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I think that it's precisely because of their long lives that they get to see plenty of death around them, of those that aren't dragons and of lesser dragons too. Remember that the lesser ones don't live as long as the elder ones, and that the later are the ones that decide how their language is. So it makes sense that in their long and almost unending lives they've learned to accept and understand that death is part of the cicle of life, something that for them happens almost constantly, so to speak (the reason for this is the same as the one given for them seeing what happened 1000 years ago as something of the present).

It's a bit convoluted, but I hope that it makes some sense.