Yes, the cover really does look like that.
When an advanced city of knowledge-collecting dragons is wiped out by nukes, our hero—a dragon named Dennagon—teams up with a band of dissidents to find the source of ultimate knowledge, lest the evil dragon cyborgs who want to control time itself get their talons on it first.
Best known, where it is known at all, for combining Rule of Cool (cyborg dragons swordfighting on the moon!) with irritatingly high levels of Purple Prose, Techno Babble, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, Word Salad Philosophy, and other piles of words that leave the reader exhausted and confused.
This novel provides examples of:
- Artistic License – Physics:
- The author tries to make Dennagon seem smart by making him recite scientific facts. This backfires at times, such as when he claims that "velocity is distance multiplied by time". note
- There are several in regard to altitude and air pressure. For example early on Dennagon is said to be flying one thousand miles high. For reference the International Space Station averages out at a quarter of that.
- The characters at one point use their wings to fly to the moon. There is just no way a celestial body can orbit within another celestial body's atmosphere, drag would make it lose momentum and crash. Leaving that aside, the moon orbits Earth at a distance of 380,000 kilometers. Depending on the dragons' flight speed, it would take them weeks or even months to travel that far, not to mention that their wings would be absolutely useless in the vacuum of space.
- Blob Monster: The SapiensLiquid flesh bubbled. A horrific frothing sound filled the atmosphere. Sloshing, slushing, slashing and burbling, it gurgled about, rolling in and out of its own figure like some species of macroscopic amoeba. Contorted from shapelessness, it started to take a form, a silhouette emerging from the metal dust that enshrouded it. As the residue of the air settled, its fluid muscle was revealed, erratic in its crazed motions. It took on the general constitution of s bipedal human grotesquely disfigured with its stands of sinew twitching like violin strings that have been plucked too hard. As it moved aimlessly, it swept out fast stretches that spanned tens of meters.
- Co-Dragons: A literal example with Arxinor and Gorgash, two technodragons that do Drekkenoth's dirty work and hound the protagonists.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: All the dragon sentries of Drakemight have been turned into technodragons via the black orbs. This is the fate that happens to Lyconel when Drekkenoth captured her turning her into a technodragon turning her into a single-minded warrior that is forced to fight Dennagon in the Lexicon tower.
- Doomed Hometown: happens to Dennagon's home city of Drakemight as it was destroyed in a barrage of nuclear missiles from humans.
- Dragon Variety Pack:
- Amphipteres have two wings and no limbs.
- Basilisks have more than two pairs of legs.
- Drakes have four legs and no wings.
- Fairy Dragons are of minuscule size and have insectoid features.
- Hydras have more than one head.
- Lindworms have two legs and no wings.
- Ouroboroses always keep their tails in their mouths.
- Pterodrakes have more than one pair of wings.
- Wurms have no limbs whatsoever.
- Wyverns have two legs and two wings.
- Fantasy Kitchen Sink: There is magic, magic books, thunderbirds, and elementals, oh my!
- MST: Has one on ConjugalFelicity
, which can also be found on ImpishIdea along with another one that appears to have ended prematurely.
- Scifi Kitchen Sink: There are cyborg dragons, Technoknights, computers, and nukes, oh my!
- Space Base: Drekkenoth has one on the moon, of course. It's the scene of the final showdown. Also, the dragons all ''fly'' from Earth to the moon base. In, quote, "less than five seconds".
- Technicolor Fire:
- The fire that Dennagon breathes is green.
- Drekkenoth is made out of black fire.
- Token Evil Teammate: Nomax always seems to be the one who wants to kill things, and it's not a big surprise when he turns out to betray the rest of them.
- Word Salad Title: Dragons: Lexicon Triumvirate. There's dragons, there's a lexicon, and there's sort of a trio of main characters if you turn your head and squint a bit, but the title doesn't really mean much, especially not stuck together like that.
