Sorcerors

Dragons
Glorious monsters, dragons are enormous beasts - the head alone of an adult can be the size of a bus and the heat of their breath can incinerate entire buildings from the better part of a kilometer away. Even more frightful, the creatures are deviously cunning; easily one of the most intelligent beasts to fall short of true sapience.

Originally assumed to be thaumavores, the dragons were all but wiped out by the Tzadikim Nistarim and their agents in the early Common Era. In truth, they are perhaps the most potent sorcerers yet discovered.

While a single dragon cannot hope to match the raw output of Sa provided by the entirety of the Covenant, a small collection of two or three is enough to sustain any one of the great cities of Faerie. After the consumption of the Otherwhere in the defeat of the Old Gods and the obliteration of the Unseelie Court, a few such eggs were smuggled to the starving cities in the North, East, South, and West where their hatching and tender care has provided the inhabitants of the Otherwhere with enough Sa to stave off death, if little else.

Mystical Lifecycle
While a dragon egg (about the size of a human torso) remains unhatched, it neither consumes nor produces Sa, the developing monster within subsisting entirely on the magical energies infused to it by the death of its parent. When the egg hatches, it does so in a veritable geyser of the remaining Sa and the dragon within (now about the size of a particularly large cat) begins producing its own.

The amount of Sa put out into the environment by the nascent monster increases with proportion to its mass and health. Though it may take several centuries to attain maturity, the Sa output of a single, fully mature dragon is all but incomparable to anything short of mass human sacrifice making such beasts cornerstones of the Otherwhere communities which host them.

And yet, despite this, the death of a dragon releases such an absurd abundance of Sa as to dwarf its living production over the course of a decade. It is only in death that a dragon can muster the magical essence required to fuel a clutch of its eggs to eventually hatch, but the manifestation of such profound volumes of energy has also made them targets of greedy Wizards since time immemorial.

Beasts of War
Few creatures edge so near to invincibility as a dragon barded in faerie steel and girded with tuatha enchantments. As such, it was these terrifying monsters which struck the first blow against the Mortals in the Last War, leaving fire and death in the wake of their surprise assault. Unfortunately, after the dragons sent to lay waste to London fell to that city’s considerable air defenses the Kings and Queens of Faerie were left with no other choice than to withdraw their monsters back to the safe havens of their cities or risk the starvation and eventual extinction of their people.