![]() ![]() News of Savanna’s departure from the Light prompted Asrina to locate and plead with her former Priestess to turn back to their Dragon God. These dragon hunters had wiped out much of High Priestess Savanna’s people before her very eyes, prompting the once pious priestess to join the dragon liches in a desperate bid to save her people through a union with the Dark. A new and powerful faction never yet seen during the days of the dragons arose in Aurelica – the Hirschbuck Empire, and with them a powerful and dedicated contingent of mages specializing in hunting dragons. Yet somehow the sacrifice did not eventuate. Thus, Asrina had been groomed from birth as the outcast of her tribe to fulfill her role in this ancient ceremony, marked before her birth by the previous High Priestess, and for her part Savanna felt partially responsible for Asrina’s unenviable sacrifice and an occasional moment of pity for the young lady destined for the flames. ![]() It was thought that the lack of a sacrifice, were it not met, would immediately call down the wrath of this divinity upon the entire species, and yet could be easily averted by the offering of a sacrificial lamb of sorts. Asrina had in fact been marked from birth for a very unusual ceremony handed down through the dragon clans for generations, and which demanded a sacrifice every thousand years to the ancient Dragon God in return for the gift of greater power than had been bestowed upon any of the other races in Aurelica. Asrina was marked for suffering from her very birth as an outcast among the elves for her partial dragon heritage as well as an outcast among the dragons owing to her dishonorable half-breed status.Īsrina may have realized her lowly social status, but certainly not the full depravity of the dragon High Priestess Savanna’s plan for her life, one of the few the members of her adopted clan who treated Asrina with any kindness, until much later. ![]()
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