Golden Tiger by Elin Kothe!
I love this!
"Glowing and silent it approached me, and I stood trembling as the horrible truth
dawned on me. This was not the work of God, but of Man."
Art by Elin Kothe.
“We were received by that great merchant and studmaster Cuno in his Villa at Mar, which is only one of his estates but perhaps the grandest. Like other great men of our modern age he did not inherit his power, but instead elected to seize it himself through perseverance and great force of body and mind.”
The King’s mounted dragonslayer proxy did tower over the drones there, abandoned and incapacitated so very long ago by water and mud.
I love this!
"Glowing and silent it approached me, and I stood trembling as the horrible truth
dawned on me. This was not the work of God, but of Man."
Art by Elin Kothe.
From Wikipedia!