"Drakes are the perfect Lesser Dragons who have everything they need. They just need to take the final evolutionary step. Everyone else, even Hydras, are failed Dragons who have already achieved Dragonhood and lost it.
"We were born from the apex of our bloodline, but something went wrong at conception. We are Lesser Dragons who, for lack of a kinder term, are not much different from the Fallen Races.
"That's why your evolutionary process is so straightforward, whereas mine is filled with twists and turns. That's why some of Thrud's Generals evolved into already established Divine Beasts' bloodlines and only a few became new forms of life."
"I see." Ajatar nodded. "That's why Iata the Scorpicore became a Sekhmet just like her foremother, and Rimo the Drake became a Fire Dragon. It was because their bloodlines were..."
