The First Six

The First Six approached the dragon dens because they were desperate to save their people. The bonds that followed were created to protect dragon hatching grounds from venin.

Violet's corrected translation changes the practical understanding of the First Six's ward work: the crucial group of six in the account refers to the most powerful dragons, not the most powerful riders.

A rendering in Kaori's office depicts the First Six's dragons without a seventh dragon. The image reflects an official or displayed version of the founding history that still counts the foundational dragons as six.

Warrick is one of the First Six, and his journal is important enough that Battle-Ax immediately recognizes the significance of his name when the record is raised.

Lyra is identified through her journal as Lyra of the First Six. Her account matters not only for its contents but also for helping Violet distinguish symbols in the ward passages.

The First Six's defining relationship is with dragonkind: their approach to the dens leads to the first formal bonds between humans and dragons. Their original enemy is the venin threat against dragon hatching grounds.

The First Six wove Navarre's wards at the site that became Basgiath War College, linking their work to the Uaineloidsig hatching grounds.

Accounts of their journey say the wards were pushed beyond their first known limits and extended to define Navarre's borders, even though some citizens were left outside that protection.

A text found by Violet says the First Six did not only establish the wards; they personally carved the first wardstone.

Warrick's journal gives a firsthand account of the First Six activating their wardstone: after the final rune was placed, the stone was set where dragons felt the deepest magical currents, and the protections came into place with an iron rain.

Violet applies Warrick's account to Aretia's wardstone and explains that the First Six combined blood with the one, while also noting that the wording cannot mean they bled to death because they lived after constructing Basgiath's wards.

Basgiath uses the First Six as a deep historical benchmark: Professor Grady says the current second-year class is the smallest to walk the halls since their time.

Texts about the First Six are treated as the oldest and most comprehensive sources for understanding the original wards. The Unabridged History of the First Six preserves material on their relationships and wartime experience, though it does not give Violet the practical mechanism she needs.

As ordinary histories prove edited, redacted, translated, or too recent, the First Six's personal journals become Violet's best remaining source for how the first wards were built. Classified books explain only ward-weaving into existing wards or ward repair, leaving the original creation process to their primary records.

A journal from one of the First Six is valuable enough that Varrish treats Violet's interest in it as suspicious. Its supposed ward-building content makes the group's primary records central both to Violet's attempt to protect Aretia and to the accusation against her.