THE FIRST FLIGHT

Comic · Dragons League Chronicles · Episode 1 · Updated

Every legend of the League starts somewhere. This is how Shadow – the dark storm dragon on our logo – first opened its eyes to the sky arena.

A black egg with glowing violet cracks on a cliff over floating islands during a night storm, a dark dragon watching from a nearby rock
1. On the highest cliff of the floating islands, where the storms never sleep, lay an egg as black as the night sky.

Nobody knew who had left it there. Only a dark shape on a distant rock seemed to watch over it, silent through every storm. For many nights lightning struck around the egg, and each time thin violet cracks glowed a little brighter across its shell, as if something inside was drinking the storm.

A tiny baby dragon with big glowing white eyes peeking out of the cracked black egg
2. Then, one night, the shell gave way.

Two round white eyes blinked in the dark. A tiny dragon pushed its head out of the shell – charcoal scales, purple markings, and those eyes, glowing like small moons. It sneezed, shook off the last pieces of shell, and looked up.

The baby dragon on the cliff edge, seen from behind, looking at a sky full of glowing orbs and giant dragons far away
3. Above the cliff, the sky was alive.

Thousands of golden orbs drifted through the air like warm fireflies. Far away, enormous dragons glided between them – one blazing orange, one made of ice – their long bodies curving through the clouds. The little dragon did not know their names yet. It only knew that it wanted to fly with them.

The young dark dragon in its first wobbly flight, swallowing a glowing golden orb surrounded by sparkles
4. Its first flight was not elegant.

It wobbled, dipped, nearly fell back onto the rocks – and then the air caught it. A golden orb floated right in front of its nose. It swallowed it in one gulp. Warmth ran down its whole body, and it felt itself grow, just a little. Every dragon in the League remembers its first orb.

A huge fiery orange dragon charging a breath attack, a dashed aim line pointing at the small dark dragon who twists out of the way
5. But the sky is not only orbs.

A shadow fell over it. The huge orange dragon had turned, and a dashed line of light now stretched from its jaws straight toward the newcomer. The air began to hum. The little dragon did not think – it twisted sideways, out of the line, a heartbeat before a wave of fire tore through the space where it had been. Lesson one of the League: always watch the line.

As the sun went down, the young dragon saw something on the horizon: a dragon larger than all the others, and above its head, a crown of pure golden light. Every dragon in the sky was circling it, watching it, waiting. The little dragon with the storm in its eyes watched too. One day, it thought. One day.

Continued in Episode 2, "The Crown".

Behind the episode

The First Flight follows the same steps as a real first match: you spawn, you eat your first orbs, you learn to dodge the dashed aim line of a charged Elemental Breath, and you see the Crown worn by the mightiest dragon in the arena. If you want to live it yourself, the beginner's guide walks you through your first ten minutes.

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