A second commission from the talented and very accommodating

Pelagia is the first and thus far only monarch of the Kingdom of Pelagia, and kingdom a little over two and a half centuries old. Not that she started out as a queen mind you, but rather as a wild dragon, captured for livestock-killing and almost being slaughtered, before a local merchant intervened. From there it was a journey of decades from being seen as nothing more than a dumb, violent animal, to being seen as having an intellect to rival any human's, and longer still to attain such power as to be declared queen.

This is Pelagia as she was before the plot to undermine her authority, the after-effects of which can be seen here.

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