Lind only had a thousand years before the tournament began. Almost all the emerald tokens had been claimed but a few powers were holding elimination rounds to narrow what they had left to dispense.
The exterior world, however, was not his current focus.
Instead, he was looking out at the Throne of Defiance and the changes nearly 50,000 years had wrought. He had seen bits and pieces but ever since the Harmonic Dragons began to mate to reproduce, things had shifted dramatically.
He did not fully understand the why, but the how was easy enough. Elements were shifting like a storm when they mated!
It was unexpected but quite normal for powerful aether beasts. Immortal beasts, normally, had better control of it, but since the early generations were all the Harmonic Dragons had, there were no such controls.
Ethry and he had no such issues but he suspected that was due to his unique origin and her race memory filling in blanks instinctively for her.
