At the next significant war council meeting of Fainarr, Ridvan showed up with a small green dragonling perched on his shoulder. This knowledge was shocking to the council and to all of Aen, as the last living dragon was believed to have been felled just a few months beforehand by a group of dragonslayers, and no new dragons had been born for nearly a thousand years. The green dragonling would accompany Ridvan everywhere it could from here on, at least until it was too large to fit within the castle walls.