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Dragon Parentage and Family is a book that can be found in Harvest Den.
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- Janthir
Dragon Parentage and Family
Draconology in a New Cycle
By: Explorer Kurt Bengtsson
The more personal facets of Tyria's dragonkind have long been wrapped in mystery. In my brief conversations with the Elder Prismatic Dragon, Aurene—shortly after the Dragonvoid crisis in Cantha—she admitted that despite her ascension, she was only a couple years short of a decade. With her consent, I was allowed to ask some more personal questions.
Launching right into the thick of it, I asked Aurene whether she and her brother Vlast were part of Glint's only clutch of eggs. Despite the memories imprinted by the time of her hatching or later uncovered by her gleaning of the Scrying Pool, Aurene was ultimately unsure. Historical records of encounters with Glint allude to her having had more than two eggs; what happened to the rest of them has been lost to the annals of history. But as Forgotten and Exalted records denote, Glint's clutch was created and protected for the purpose of eventually deposing and replacing the Elder Dragons, (Taimi, 27). Aurene found this detail poignant as she described her brief and final conversations with Soo-Won, and the regret she'd expressed with regards to their raising, having created the other Elder Dragons as tools to serve some cosmic purpose without much thought to how that would affect them, and how they would later connect (or not) with other living beings.
There has been much discourse over whether all dragons can create their own eggs and then suffuse them with enough magic for a hatchling to form. All experts in the field agree, Elder Dragons and their direct offspring are seemingly set apart from the rest of dragonkind, all possessing the ability to shape and create life with power to outmatch the human gods. That Glint was freed by the Forgotten and then able to sow the seeds of her elder family's downfall was nothing short of a miracle.
The specifics of elder dragon parentage are still conjecture at best, though. By Aurene's account, her grandsire expressed some amount of remorse for having killed her and possibly her mother. It's unclear if Kralkatorrik was driven entirely by the early coalescing effects of the Dragonvoid or if he was also guided by visions of his own, always knowing he and his offspring would have to die for Aurene to ascend. What is most interesting is that Kralkatorrik's capacity for empathy, connection, and resonance—albeit rudimentary and corruptible—was a consistent throughline from Soo-Won down to his own offspring, something not witnessed in his siblings (Taimi, 53).
Related achievements[edit]
Lowland Shore: Life in the Lowlands — Read all the books scattered around Lowland Shore. (5
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Janthir Wilds: Act 1: Loremaster's Library — Read from Wry Lichen's personal library in his home in Harvest Den. (1
