The Ice-Drake of Moncayo
📍 Moncayo, Zaragoza
The Dreaming Sovereign of Eternal Ice The perpetual snow cap crowning Moncayo—that magnificent peak rising 2,314 meters above the Aragonese plains—is not a natural meteorological phenomenon as modern climatologists might insist. It is, in truth, the chosen resting place of Cryssaegrim the Ancient, an ice-drake whose breath alone possessed the terrible power to freeze entire rivers solid in their courses, to transform fertile valleys into lifeless tundra, to plunge entire kingdoms into winter eternal and unbreakable. Cryssaegrim belonged to an elder lineage of dragons, beings who predated the warm-blooded wyrms that hoarded gold and terrorized knights. Ice-drakes remembered the great glaciations, when sheets of frozen water kilometers thick had covered the earth, when the world itself was…