Thread:LastZephyr/@comment-13488655-20160419222913/@comment-5999656-20160422052213

Okay, so the thing is I wasn't the one who came up with the idea of the Dragons, just the one who took over once the original wiki members left. I'm trying to respect what details they've left me to work with, and expand within their parameters. Here's my idea of their basic history:

The current Dragons are implied to not be the original members of the alliance at the time of its founding, as Arcelia, Arkos, Tony, Ethereal, James, Neil, and Zanipher's pages all mention having been recruited into the Dragons at some relatively recent point in time. This is bolstered by an offhand statement made by Messer in http://rwbyfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:23484. So I imagine that the Dragons as a whole aren't that old, maybe going back 2 decades at most, and in their current form they're pretty new.

On the other hand, many of their personal factions have operated as an individual entity for some time, some as multinational corporations. Zanipher's Daybreak Syndicate arose in the years following the Great War, while James' Masters realm, Ethereal's Kaiser Conglomerate, Arcelia's Sefyre Incorporated, and Neil's Vacuo Street Runners were founded by them, respectively. Their mentioned associates probably came along relatively recently as well. Their history pretty much mirrors when they were added in real life.

So to answer your question, chances are any run-ins with the Dragons as they are now would have been in the last ten years, and since the Cardamoms are a traditional mob family I don't think they'd have seen much of the more white collar sector, non-combative Dragons. They probably know about Neil since he's from Vacuo, but any non-Vale operations by the Dragons were probably small enough that it didn't implicate the dragons as the ones behind it even if they got into a fight with the Cardamoms.

I honestly don't know much about the other Dragons outside of the one I own, sorry. In short, yeah they've probably met in small-scale conflicts that didn't jeopardize the organizations as a whole.