Black · General Melgren's dragon · the largest, rarest dragon on the Continent
Codagh
Navarre's war machine made flesh. His dragonfire executed the rebellion's leaders — and branded their children on the arm while they were made to watch.
Melgren's black dragon: bigger than Tairn, older, scarred, bonded to the general whose foresight makes the kingdom near-unbeatable. Everything Tairn is, wearing the uniform.
The war machine · What he is
Tairn's dark institutional mirror.
The biggest, rarest dragon on the Continent, bonded to the general whose battle-foresight makes Navarre almost impossible to beat. Where Tairn is the bond you root for, Codagh is the same power in service to the crown. Menace, not sleekness.
The originating fire · What he did
The atrocity the whole series grows out of.
His dragonfire executed the rebellion's leaders while their children stood and watched — and as the parents burned, the rebellion relic bloomed on 107 young arms, Codagh's work. The cruel joke: those same relics are what blind his own rider's foresight.
His fire
The war he burned into a generation.
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The File
- Scale
- Black — the rarest colour in the sky. The largest dragon Navarre has.
- Rider
- General Augustine Melgren, commander of all Navarre.
- Notable
- His fire burned the apostasy's leaders — and marked the 107.
- The irony
- The relics he branded are the ones that now blind Melgren's foresight.
- Status
- Alive. The apex predator of the Riders Quadrant.
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