This is a pretty big breakthrough for me! Finally made some prepared core technology for the dragonscape. Now it's pretty rudimentary but let's talk about it and the far less interesting obsidian hide scrapers that were also made.

The blade cores are knapped by making a large flat surface on the top, making one or mor sides as smooth as possible and then working on making a series of isolated platforms that lend themselves for making very long, preferentially shaped flakes that can be cranked out consistently. The quality of the blades (a type of flake) here are very usable though a bit thick since I have used a hammerstone for the process instead of something more delicate. Regardless each of the blades has 2 or more razor sharp edges that function as good knives without much modification, though I will likely use the blades in my stone knife handle to function better. These blades could also be modified into a lot of different purposes, from making them into projectile points and piercers for working hide, draw knife blades or simple backed hand knives.

On the lower left there are also two scrapers, these were simply thicker cortex covered waste flakes that I had modified into hide scrapers by working a single side of them to produce a sharply angled edge. Simple but very useful tools for working hides.

In the dragonscape lore this is pretty analagous to the idea of drekir flintknapping traditions leaning more towards prepared cores rather than biface technology. Drekir, lacking lithic knapping skills usually, tend to build off of more basic ideas of using stone flakes and develop those into more complex prepared cores that can produce more usefully shsaped flakes. These might be blade cores as seen here, or a variety of levallois styled prepared cores (a project for the future) This would probably be what a lot of drek blade cores would look like, made of relatively thick blades that are still highly usable for use as knives, or modification into spear and atlatl points, draw knives, burins, piercers, etc. etc.

Hide scrapers are most easily made with lithics, at least compared to copper metallurgy, and that is true of human history too. Scalehide processing is an important process to most every drekir culture due to their needs to hunt and the importance of making as much from their animals work as possible so hide scrapers are a highly mundane, but very important tool in the daily life of drekir. It's likely you would find these sorts of simple, modified hide scraper flakes in use all over the Dragonscape, some might be hafted onto a handle of some sort, and others might be used by hand. Regardless hide scrapers are a boring, but very important tool in the DragonScape