Talk:Air Nomad Genocide/@comment-184.58.98.90-20130127064152/@comment-124.180.218.120-20130304105803

There may ahve been tons of dragons, but we only have two examples of those dragons being tamed (tamed, and probably not domesticated) in Fang and Sozin's Dragon. Ran, Shaw, and that one from the comic did not seem likely to either give up an egg or offer themselves as a guide. It's likely that the only reason Sozin and Roku had dragons was because of some adventure (maybe they went out looking for dragon eggs when they were young, like Aang and Kuzon?), or as a status symbol. After all, Sozin was Heir to the Fire Nation, and Roku was a noble high-up enough to be best-friends with the Heir to the Throne.

The fire nation got to the Air Nomads with their Zeppelins. If Dragon-riding was an effective or prlausible form of travel, they never would have bothered making zepellins, at least not for the war.