Its funny how the choice was made for some books to focus on dragons in other cultures. I mean it makes sense, you can fly, go to far off places, the world if your oyster. I am uncertain as to the goal of the story, most books have some sort of endgoal in mind and it seems the main idea here is the war but the divergents from that path are just huge so I do feel a bit lost. But I am just taking it as it goes and enjoying the road the story travels along.