"And because you want to be there, everybody also wants to be there, both to buy your goods and to sell their goods. This causes easy access to anyone within a certain proxy, hence why there are so many people in big cities. More easy access means better nutrition and healthier lives. Healthier lives lead to happier lives. And they shift culturally towards favoring that."
"It all has to do with services. If you were a merchant selling jewelry, where would you like to put your shop? The small town with a lot of farmers? Or the big city where there are more people with more money?"
"Not all dragons eat meat. You can eat fruit or nuts if you want to, but you don't because dragons need the protein more than others."
"Also, agriculture includes the raising of livestock like cattle or sheep."
"I'd guess that a large majority of them would be farmers. You'd have your blacksmith, carpenter, cobbler, tanner, miller, etc. But most of it would be focused on agriculture, or the production of food."
"Well, there are many dragons in these mountains that were raised like you; it's the old way of living, and it doesn't work as well as cooperation does now."
"The sky dragons, at least the sect I visited, are meticulous about ritualism and tradition; many of the texts they have have not been touched, let alone altered, for years."