: Success is frequently tied to the emotional or spiritual connection between the tamer and the beast.
In the jagged peaks of the Iron Cloud Ridge, where the wind whistled like a dying gale, lived Elara. In a world where status was determined by the rarity of one’s bonded creature, Elara was an outcast. While others in the Sky-Shatter Academy flaunted dragon-blood drakes and thunder falcons, Elara had spent her initiation ritual taming a "Stone-Eyed Hare"—a creature most considered a mere garden pest. Beast Tamer
One evening, the sky turned a bruised purple. A Rift-Stalker, a beast from the void that even the Academy’s masters feared, descended upon the village. The "genius" tamers sent their fiery phoenixes and armored bears forward, but the Rift-Stalker fed on magic. The more they attacked, the stronger it grew. : Success is frequently tied to the emotional