The Drake Eyrie

Originally constructed for messenger drakes, it was expanded to house full battle drakes that serve as both royal mounts and defensive forces for Emberforge.

Wide circular towers with open arches facing the skies, heavy basalt ledges for perches, and chained feeding posts. Training yards are built on terraces linked by carved ramps.

Accessible from spiral staircases within the palace. The main gates are enchanted iron grillwork that can be quickly dropped to lock drakes in or out.

The constant low rumble of drakes, warm gusts of rising air, the occasional roar echoing off stone. Smells of scorched meat and volcanic ash.

Battle drakes, handlers drawn from Emberguard’s elite, silent monks who oversee psychic calming rituals to keep drakes attuned.

• Feeding troughs of black iron.
• Perch chains crafted with silent rune stabilizers.
• Sacks of specially prepared volcanic meats.
• Small lava pools for drakes to soak in.

If intruders breach the towers, handlers can trigger a ward that releases blinding gouts of steam and flame to confuse or incapacitate.

Drakes trained here are exposed to minor psychic harmonics that make them more responsive to non-verbal commands.

Expanded around ~250 years ago after dragonborn allies helped improve training methods, integrating rune patterns into the towers themselves.

Follows Emberforge’s vertical flame motif, but sturdier — walls are extra thick, arches reinforced with iron ribs to withstand drake landings.

Heavy rune-locked gates, Emberguard archers on parapets, and the drakes themselves, ready to tear apart any threat.