"After nearly 5,000 years of peaceful existence, a new leader emerged amongst the young dragons. This was the great, black dragon Nexrosis. Constantly pushing against the magical barrier protecting and concealing the dragon's warrens from the world above, he became increasingly troublesome for the older dragons and elves. Strangely, no record of his birth can be found. This fact is made all the more unusual by Nexrosis's odd skin coloration and skull-like facial marking." -The History of Aroth, Volume VII (Prelude to War) The tenth image in my Aroth story arc (started with Desolation). Images to date: Desolation, Captive, Bait, Arcane Magic, Tragedy, Ambush, Departure, Underground, Observation, and Nexrosis. This image is designed more to introduce this new character (my third recurring character... Or is he?), so I chose this sort of portrait-like format. The body pose is one of my own, part of a collection I might distribue if there is enough demand. The wing pose is slightly modified from one of Anton's defaults.