Etherean Dragon Egg

The Etherean Dragon Egg, colloquially known as the Dragon Stone, is an artifact shown in Songs of War. Before her birth, the artifact housed the embryo of Luna.

## History

### Prior to series

The Etherean Dragon Egg was one of the many dragon eggs produced by Ender Dragons. Since all dragon eggs left in Ardonia became dormant after the end of the Great War and the departure of the Ender Knights, this particular egg was transferred to the possession of the Kingdom of Conchord, and was placed in a secure castle in Etherea for safekeeping. That is where the egg remained for a while.

Sometime off-screen, before Episode 1, Zinaida Voltaris hired Jalkar to steal the egg from Conchord and sell it to the resurgent Voltaris Clan, who desired it for unknown reasons.

### Episode 2

In Episode 2, Jalkar and his accomplice Grim infiltrated the Etherean castle where the egg was located. After a brief skirmish with local guards, both escaped to a cliffside, but by accident, Grim knocked the egg out of Jalkar's hands and over the edge of the cliff. Upon hitting the ground, a reaction inside the egg was triggered, causing it to teleport into Underwood. Jalkar and Grim then set out to find the egg before someone else did.

At the end of the episode, Abbigail and Sam discovered the egg while hunting pigs for meat. The egg appeared to have generated a patch of end stone blocks in the location it had teleported to.

### Episode 3

Abbigail took the egg to her home in Mr. Finch's farm. Mr. Finch discovered it, and told Abbigail it was a "dragon stone" but either didn't know it was an egg or didn't want to tell her. Abbigail and Mr. Finch hid the egg in the farm. Later, Conchord authorities came to the farm, searching for the egg. Mr. Finch managed to convince them it wasn't there, and they left.

### Episode 4

Jalkar and Grim discovered Mr. Finch's farm, and stole the egg, knocking out Mr. Finch in the process. Abbigail was alerted to the trouble by Sam, who was barking at the two thieves. She quickly rushed to intercept Jalkar and Grim, trying to stop them from taking the egg, but after a brief duel, Jalkar knocked Abbigail out as well and the egg was taken. Upon waking, Abbigail ventured out of the farm to catch up to the thieves and retake the egg, despite Mr. Finch's insistence that she shouldn't.

### Episode 5

Abigail caught up to Jalkar and Grim at Darlene's farm, again confronting them and firing at them with arrows. Jalkar took the egg and tried to escape on one of Darlene's horses, while Grim stood in Abbigail's way, blocking her arrows. Abbigail rushed at him with her sword, and Grim tried to prepare to fight her, but Sam distracted him. Giving up, Grim tried to escape with Jalkar on the horse, avoiding fighting, but Darlene noticed the commotion and told her horse to knock the thieves off, which she did. Jalkar and Grim then escaped on foot as Abbigail explained the situation to Darlene.

Later, as Abbigail and Darlene were travelling to Tabora Crags, the place Jalkar and Grim had ran off to, Darlene explained to Abbigail that the "dragon stone" was actually a dragon egg. She then dropped Abbigail off at the Tabora Crags and returned to her farm, while Abbigail entered the Crags in pursuit of the thieves.

### Episode 6

Zinaida Voltaris and his squadron of Voltaris had been waiting in the Crags for Jalkar to arrive with the egg. Jalkar arrived with Grim, who Zinaida didn't know was involved. After a brief argument with Jalkar, Zinaida decided not to pay a second share to Grim, which Jalkar accepted. Zinaida then demanded the egg, but Jalkar wanted the money first. Zinaida decided to cheat the deal and ordered his squadron to kill Jalkar and Grim, thus avoiding having to pay, against the advice of his second-in-command, Lucidius.

Jalkar and Grim battled the squadron. In the end, the thieves were victorious, killing Zinaida along with the rest of his squadron besides Lucidius, who was left injured and slumped against the wall of the Crags. Jalkar and Grim now needed a new buyer for the egg and continued travelling through the Crags to find an escape.

Abbigail caught up to the side of the battle and found Lucidius, who told her where the thieves had gone. Abbigail went that way, desperate to find and intercept them.

### Episode 7

Jalkar and Grim were stopped in their tracks near the exit to the Crags by an Enderman, who seemed to be searching for the egg. The Enderman tried to take the egg, but the thieves battled it viciously. Though the Enderman almost took the egg twice, Grim managed to cut off part of its arm with his scythe, causing it to teleport away in pain. Jalkar and Grim proceeded to the exit, which happened to be a climbing wall.

Jalkar managed to make it up with the egg, but before Grim could join him, he was struck by an arrow, causing him to fall back down to the previous level of the wall. Abbigail, the one who fired the arrow, emerged with Sam. Knowing that he didn't have enough time to rescue Grim, Jalkar abandoned him and escaped with the egg. Anguished, Grim turned to battle Abbigail alone. After a brief battle, he accidentally disarmed himself by swinging his scythe into water, and was cornered by Abbigail. However, at that moment, three Endermen appeared, including the one who had battled Jalkar and Grim before, once again on the hunt for the egg.

### Episode 8

Jalkar, carrying the egg, ran into Senn and Igneous and tried to steal Timber the horse. He attempts to stab Igneous to no avail. Igneous punches him and he runs off with the egg. Later, it is revealed that Abbigail is still on the hunt for the egg, and bought a map to do so.

### Episode 9

Abbigail and Sam go hunting after they run out of food. Jalkar appears with the egg and attacks them, resulting in Sam's death. Abbigail shoots Jalkar with her arrows three times, killing him. Abbigail then picks the egg up and walks off.

### Episode 10

Abbigail was mourning for Sam when the etherean dragon egg started shaking and glowing. It soon exploded and left end stone and purple particles all over the ground. Startled, Abbigail looks around and soon sees a baby ender dragon, which suddenly vanished over a boulder. After a few moments, the baby dragon's head pops up over the boulder and lands on Abbigail's shoulder. Later, in a scene featuring Galleous and Senn discussing Ardonia's state, the egg hatching was mentioned, apparently, the first Ender Dragon hatched in over a century.