Art Sample: Dragon (Patreon)

Dragons are long extinct from the world, but it is believed they were the original form of monster. Only the oldest records and legends speak of them at all, but it is said that they could draw magic not just from the atmosphere as most species do, but drain the much stronger sources of magic from the ground of islands. Such magic is incredible strong, for it is what allows islands to float, and it is the foundation of the protective and infrastructural spells wizards lay upon the islands that towns and tribal islands sit upon. Any creature capable of not only tapping such a tremendous source of power, but surviving the experience, would be incredible indeed. There are rumors that small bands of dragons still exist on the furthest flung islands of the skies, and these rumors have only grown more persistent, not less, as the Central Kingdom expands ever eastward. The wizards have records of the type of essence used that could supposedly be harvested from dragons, and claim that it was too potent to be used in anything except their greatest constructions from a bygone age, that it's only use in this day would be to be refined into other forms of essence.