User blog comment:Saratje/NEW Dragonborn content/@comment-5701011-20121127093238/@comment-160529-20121130000106

the empire has kept tamed dragons in secret for a long time, and the akaviri rode red dragons into battle (the ones the tsaesci supposedly "ate" lending support to the theory they merely assimilate other groups into their culture, a confusion caused by the fact that "eating" means the same thing as assimilating as they are vampires that assimilate the traits of their prey . . . at least in my speculative headcanon they are)