Firedrake

The Firedrakes were a species of dragons native to the world of the Nine Realms.

Biology
Firedrakes were red giant serpentine monsters with skeletal wings. Firedrakes were a race that coveted magic, drawn to items imbued to its properties. The desire for magic is not for fancy but is a need to sustain itself. The bloodstone of Firedrake's heart is the main organ that draws magic power. Though they had poor eyesight and even worse hearing. Instead they rely on smell.

According to some claims, when Firedrakes great age their bodies rebel against time, causing them to be wracked with unending pain which makes them vicious, malicious and cruel. This causes them to inflect their spite on others.

Even when death, their remains such as shards of their hearts can till retain intelligence and will. Though advice they give is corrupting filled with lies and trickery. When properly fed magic a single shard can perform feats of magic.

History
The last Firedrake of the Nine Realms was Tiamat who guarded a horde of magic. A company of adventurers that included Cousins Borrigan and Balthazar from the Kingdoms of Brass and Bronze, Albard of the Grey Order and the underling Baliol sought to relieve some treasures from the Firedake. Due to Tiamat being unfamiliar with the scent of an underling she ignored him whilst she was distracted by the wizard and cousins. Baliol took the opportunity to deliver a deadly strike to her fractured heart.

Though it was hailed as an epic tale, some other like the ork Crixus criticized it as overly romantic as the Firedrake was the last of her kind and the longest lived on the Nine Realms. Albard though justified the slaying as a form of euthanasia as the Firedrake was in enormous pain, though the ork countered that mercy had nothing to do it with as the heroes slaughtered her in greed which the wizard does not deny.

Unknown to Albard Baliol kept a shard of the bloodstone. The bloodstone would turn out to be sentient and whispered to him convincing the underling to sacrifice souls to it in exchange for souls when the Boroughs were invaded by outsiders in the aftermath of the Thorn's occupation of the Nine Realms.

It was eventually destroyed by Crixus using his power of the Ebora, though Princess Yarrow collected a shard and crafted a arrowhead initially intending to use it as a weapon against Crixus if he turned to be evil. However she was forced to use it to save Crixus when the spirit of Ichnar the Wraith King tried to possess the ork to claim the power of the Ebora.