With its extreme 317-year orbital period, Triaxus swings between centuries of bitter winter and decades of relative summer. The native ryphorians have adapted with genetic flexibility: winterborn ryphorians are pale-furred and stocky, summerborn are slender with dark skin, and transitional individuals display traits of both. The planet's civilizations divide roughly into the Allied Territories — nations governed by ryphorians — and the Drakelands, where chromatic dragons openly rule nations of ryphorian and dragonkin subjects. Most famous is the Skyfire Mandate, an order dating back to when ryphorians and dragonkin first bonded as rider and mount to fight off chromatic dragon warlords. Today the Skyfire Legion is an elite starfaring military company, their dragonkin partners having genetically reduced in size over generations to better fit aboard starships. The Allied Territories are themselves divided — the democratic nations of Kamora and Zo contrast with the isolationist city of Aylok and the fiercely traditional realm of Preita. On the continent of Ning, an honor-based culture produces the legendary ukara battleflowers: renowned warriors who serve as living weapons for noble houses, their social status matched only by their combat prowess. Above it all, the Immortal Suzerain — an ancient silver dragon — watches over the Allied Territories as a mediating force. Despite its long history of dragon-ryphorian conflict, modern Triaxus is a world where the two species' fates are inextricably linked.