The Drak’nir Empire remains a blight upon the western half of the continent: a realm sustained by mass slavery and the systematic crushing of dissent, projecting its will through armies whose primary purpose is to instill fear rather than maintain order. That most western polities have formed a loose alliance to counter Drak’nir’s ambitions is a small reassurance, but not a guarantee of peace. More curious is Drak’nir’s decision to retain “the Dragon” as a court mage. A woman whose defining characteristic, so far as I can tell, is weaponized unpredictability. It is an audacious choice for so rigid a regime; I suspect, in time, it will prove a catastrophic one.
— from the research notes of Zyr’Magi Tes’Lothen, “Magi the Blade”, high-aelv scholar, mage, and swordsman
