The venin's beasts · dragon-cousins with no soul · the standing army beyond the wards

Wyvern

Not born, made. The venin build them, drop a runed onyx stone in for a heart, and pour stolen power in — soulless constructs that die the instant their maker does.

The horde Violet meets at Resson: dragon-like, gaunt, hive-minded, and vulnerable to the one thing dragons have that they never will — real dragonfire, and a rider who chose to be there.

Made, not chosen · What they are

The dark inversion of a dragon.

A dragon chooses a rider and gives power; a wyvern is built by a venin who pours power in and takes nothing back. Runed onyx for a heart, a hive-mind for a will, no soul at all. Everything the dragon bond is, the wyvern is the hollow mirror of it.

Resson onward · The horde

The lie, walking.

Violet meets them first at Resson — the whole argument that Navarre's quiet border was always a fiction. They die when their maker dies and burn under real dragonfire: the manufactured army against the ones who were chosen. At Basgiath, a thousand wait for Baide's blood to drop the wardstone.

The war

Who makes them, and what they were built to bring down.

Swipe to meet them all

The Venin The dark wielders who make them.The Venintheir makersEnter The Venin →

Resson The town beyond the wards.Ressonwhere they were first seenEnter Resson →

Battle of Basgiath The night the wards fell.Battle of Basgiaththe horde at the gateEnter Battle of Basgiath →

The Wardstone The flame that held Navarre.The Wardstonewhat they were built to bring downEnter The Wardstone →

The File

What they are: Manufactured dragon-cousins — soulless, will-less, built for war.
The heart: A runed onyx stone set inside each one. Not a soul. A battery.
The power: The venin pours power into them — the exact opposite of a dragon bond.
Weakness: Die the instant their venin dies. Vulnerable to dragonfire.
First seen: The Battle of Resson — the proof the war never ended.
Status: The standing army of the venin's war.

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