DRAKHTHAR
DRAKHTHAR
The Breath of the North · Second Era · Kaer-Dur
Guardian of the frozen winds. He knows no wrath, yet his breath can freeze entire kingdoms.
Among the thirteen guardian dragons of the continent, Frost is the youngest. Also the most stable. Where other guardians carry the weight of their seals with visible strain, Frost bears it the way a glacier bears the cold: naturally, without apparent effort, as if the weight were part of him rather than something imposed.
His scales are crystalline, deep blue, with veins of ice that glow as the cold deepens. His eyes are the color of the sky at the height of a snowstorm. He does not inspire fear the way Ignar does. He inspires something different: the certainty that there are things in this world that cannot be forced or bargained with.
“Ice does not need to threaten. It only needs to be ice.”
Frost and Sergail have been together for thirty years. On the continent of Drakhthar, that is not merely time — it is an entire story no one has told yet. How they found each other, how Sergail earned the trust of the calmest dragon on the continent, what they have seen together across three decades above the glacier of Kaer-Dur.
Book II begins when that bond is tested in a way neither of them anticipated.
His only established bond is with Sergail, his rider for thirty years — the longest and most stable relationship between a dragon and one of the Named known on the continent. There is no record of contact between Frost and the other twelve guardian dragons; each lives isolated in its own region, bound to its own seal.
Frost does not live in Kaer-Dur. He is part of Kaer-Dur. The glacier of Aethon, the northern winds, the silence that carries weight in that region — all of it bears his mark, though most of its inhabitants do not know it. They feel it. The difference between knowing and feeling is, in Kaer-Dur, the difference between those who have been near the dragon and those who have not.