



Illustration done for a personal fantasy project.







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I n this world, dragons don't mindlessly burn down villages and terrorize humans.

Even though numerous people died in the past encountering these mighty beasts, most attacks were not unprovoked... Dragons actively hunting humans for food was a rare sight.





As years passed and people improved their weapons, tools and means of defending their towns and cities, encounters between the two became less and less frequent. Before long dragons were barely a threat to human communities. Instead, they increasingly became an actively hunted species forcing them to retreat into wild and remote areas. Still their numbers dwindled rapidly.





When dragons became a rarity and were thought to go extinct, laws were enacted to protect these majestic creatures and hunting became a punishable crime. However, this also caused dragon body parts to become highly valuable.





Here we see a group of poachers who have hunted down a dragon and its two pups, luring them with a massive fire beacon.

The dragons are killed and then harvested for body parts to be sold in illegal trade and on black markets.

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