Black Dragon Eggs

"They really do look beautiful."

Tonatiuh gazed at the four dragon eggs before him. Each one stood half the height of a human, larger even than Chromie's gnome form.

These four dragon eggs had been brought before him by two outstanding dragons, Krasus and Nythendra.

"They could have been more beautiful!" Krasus, standing beside him in his High Elf form, looked like a dwarf next to the troll king. "But they have been corrupted. They have fallen."

Tonatiuh glanced at him.

The God King remembered that, in the original timeline, this member of the younger generation of the Red Dragonflight—perhaps its most outstanding talent—had died protecting the Red Dragonflight's eggs.

It could be said that he should have been extremely familiar with the eggs of every dragonflight, perhaps even studied them, because he had been responsible for caring for the dragon eggs in the Red Dragon sanctuary during the period before his sacrifice.

As for these dragon eggs before him, they were naturally not Red Dragonflight or Green Dragonflight eggs. They were Black Dragonflight eggs.

"Her Majesty Ysera led several elite Red and Green dragons in a raid on the Burning Steppes. They killed two thoroughly corrupted black dragons and seized these dragon eggs." Nythendra explained the origins of the four black dragon eggs. "There had originally been dozens of corrupted black dragon embryos like these there, but most were destroyed in the battle. Only these remained."

Tonatiuh tilted his head and looked again at the green dragon princess, whose Kaldorei elf form was full of wildness amid her heroic bearing, and beauty amid that wildness.

The God King did not quite believe that the dozens of dragon eggs had been accidentally destroyed. More likely, the Dragonflights had vented their anger and deliberately destroyed those black dragon eggs. Just because