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Each flight of dragons is vouchsafed with an aspect of creation itself to supervise. The five Dragon Aspects were granted their powers and dominion over Azeroth"s life, magic, earth, time and more by the Titans who created them from the massive proto-dragon Galakrond in long vanished times past. In the past few KYL"s we"ve covered Alexstrasza"s Red Dragonflight, Deathwing"s Black Dragonflight and its offshoot the Netherwing, and deceased Malygos" Blue Dragonflight.
This time we look at what might be the strangest dragons of them all. The servants of Ysera, the dragons of the Emerald Dream, the Green Dragonflight. In order to truly understand the green dragons, one would have to be able to understand the dream they all dream, but who can do that? How can one tell the dreamers from the dream?
Easy. The dreamers are great honking green dragons that will kill you. It"s relatively simple. If you doubt their power or their resolve, go to the Temple of Atal"Hakkar and ask the Atali, trapped in a complex smashed into the water by the fury and might of Ysera herself. Even when they themselves fall victim to corruption, the green dragons are fearsome opponents. While Alexstrasza and her brood concern themselves with life and living things, Ysera is effectively the shepherd of what Dylan Thomas called "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower" - effectively, that which makes life itself possible.
This is also what often gets them in trouble with old gods, blasphemous troll deities of bloodlust, and the loathsome Scourge and its malefic master. (I have been waiting to use "malefic" in a sentence for so long now.)
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