Primeval Mark

Before the Court formalized its granite thrones or the Aerie forged its first keeper bonds, the eldest mountain dragons possessed a singular power: to mark those whose deeds resonated with the stone itself. This Primeval Mark was not bestowed but earned through actions so profound that the mountains themselves could not forget, creating the original standard by which all later traditions would measure worthiness.

The Mark manifests as a physical token bearing patterns that shift between granite striations and dragon scale textures, never settling on purely one or the other. It grows imperceptibly heavier with each worthy deed across the sixteen trials, its weight a tangible measure of accumulated recognition. When multiple marked individuals gather, the tokens emit a low harmonic resonance audible only to those the mountains have chosen to remember, a frequency that predates language itself.

Serves as the ultimate arbitrator of who enters the permanent record of the mountains, existing above both Court judgment and Aerie partnership as the primordial standard both traditions unconsciously measure against.