He settled back into the creaking Old Recliner and decided to leave his first book to chance. Without choosing at all, he reached an arm out from the recliner, grabbed a book within reach, and pulled it over to read.
"The Dragon's Lament"
Ruger raised an eyebrow and began leafing through it with interest.
Contrary to what he had imagined, it was not about the decline of dragonkind, some turning point in history, or a minor encounter between Wizards and dragons.
It truly was about lamentation-the lamentation of dragons.
There was a Wizard named Kseim whose grandfather had a trace of Dragonkin blood. He had no outward signs of that ancestry and looked human, but he had been born able to resonate with dragons. After being found to have the aptitude to become a Wizard, he forged his own path. He called himself a Dragon-Power Wizard, though Resonance Wizard would have been more fitting. He created many Resonance Spells of his own. His innate resonance with dragons led him into this field when he embarked on the Wizard's path, and that same innate resonance led him to choose dragons as the targets of his Resonance Spells.
With just a little bloodline modification, without pursuing extremes at great risk as bloodline Wizards did, he could cast a Resonance Spell and borrow his target's power. To borrow a Giant Dragon's power, however, he needed no bloodline modification at all.
Everything began to change when he heard a lament.
By then, he had become a Four-Ring Wizard and had explored the field of Resonance Spells more deeply. He realized his mistake: after developing those Resonance Spells, he had devoted most of his time and energy to raising his Giant Dragon companions and researching resonant Giant Dragon power.
He should never have been borrowing