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You are born a dragon. You will die a dragon.

Inside the shell, you dream of things you have never seen. A burning city. Ground splitting open. Wings blotting out the sky. And at the end, always, a small human hand. It is not a dream. It is memory, carried in the blood of the one before you. The hatchling you wake as is not the monster of the legends. A few wingbeats that barely clear the treetops. One small fireball. When a bear comes, you run. You begin this world as prey, not as its apex.

The sky opens as you grow

"The world opened up" is not a cutscene here. It is a mechanic.

Death is not an ending. It is a handover.

A dragon that mastered its karma dissolves into motes of light, and that light returns to an egg of its bloodline. Only an egg the light reaches will hatch — and only the light of the parent that laid it can open the shell. Which means a dragon never meets the parent who bore it.

And nothing is undone. The village you burned stays burned. The humans you made wary stay wary. The prey you hunted out does not come back. Your child lives with it.

Karma is a debt your children pay

Hunting to fill your belly is not a sin in this world. You chase, you kill, you eat. That is simply how the world turns, and nothing in you darkens. What stains you is killing people, and killing what you will not eat. A dragon heavy with karma grows stronger. Larger, fiercer, harder to stop. But a dragon clouded with it cannot fully dissolve into light. It leaves a corpse behind, and less of it reaches the next generation. The path that makes this life powerful is the same path that makes your descendants poor. That choice decides where eight generations of your bloodline end up.

Records that fade

There was an age when dragons and humans lived side by side. What happened, and why it ended, is carved into standing stones across thirty regions.

What you read becomes blood memory and passes safely to your child. Only what you put off reading disappears.

Fly. Hunt. Live.

This is a single-player game

No servers, no lobbies, no queues. Your bloodline never ends because of someone else's disconnect, and nobody outgrows you while you sleep. This world belongs to your family alone. How harsh death is, is yours to set. By default, dying without leaving an egg will not wipe out your line. Choose the hardcore setting only if losing everything is the game you want. Music: Into Battle by Alexander Nakarada Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Excerpt used, with volume adjustment and a fade-out)