The Draco Liber

They are not gods. They are not demons. They are neighbors of terrible power and fragile number.

What do we owe to the beings whose world we share?

In 1680, a minor scholar from the Scholomance Applied University of Mystics set out on what he expected to be a routine field survey of Carpathian wildlife. Seventeen years later, Professor Luca Cubleșan returned from the mountains with three thousand pages of notes, a soul transformed, and a manuscript that would never see print in his lifetime.

The reason? He had committed the unforgivable sin of treating dragons as persons.