Where the Heart of Anti-Shurtugal Rises Again.

Dragons are weird, because they're treated as semi animals and act as semi animals, but they're also treated as wise and have egos that can be bruised, implying at least some state of natural social structure. They're also a species that's been enslaved for centuries, so it's hard to tell if dragons were beasts before the Riders came along and imposed their culture on them. We're told this, but it's by the people who did the binding.