A solo piece involving the young historian Cassiopeia peering up into the night sky as she leans against the edge of a balcony atop Steel Spire’s tower in Possibility. The city sprawls out beneath her, more advanced than ever, advertising its status as a monolith of progress in the form of towering buildings of brick and steel and glass glimmering with artificial lights of many flavors. But with this great new glow comes the consequences of an excess of light, a peril never before faced by dragonkind. Sadness can be seen encroaching on the NightWing prophet in how her body droops as she gazes up at the sky, reflecting on how her vision from months before had come true: the stars have begun to fade from the sky.

After a break of two weeks to bounce back from my previous, exhausting piece that took me 5 weeks to make, I’ve come back fresh and churned this one out in ~4 days this time. Much better. This time, it’s featuring the newest member of the cast, Casseiopeia! She’s a historian by trade and prophet by birth who has a fascination with time and uses her skills to study the course of it, both backwards and forwards. Given how Sylva and Alder’s innovations are making history in real time, she was eager to seize the opportunity to work alongside them as both scholar & scribe, taking the time on the side to document all the new developments shaping dragonkind. But as time drags on, the things she finds herself recording have grown more and more troubling. To think it was even possible to banish the stars from the night sky…

Tl;dr: light pollution is bad and the dragons are finding out the hard way.