Barrage Dragon (Young)

To the uninitiated, spellcasting is an art for those with iron wills, people who reach out and grab hold of the fundamental laws of the universe and bend them to their whim. It takes discipline, study, and above all else, it takes control. Fail to control the very building blocks of reality and everything could fall apart.

Those who have even dabbled in the arcane arts know that this is nonsense. Magic is chaos, and channeling arcane forces is less akin to exerting one's will over the world and more like surfing on a bolt of lightning through a world-shaking storm and hoping to steer it without falling off. Spellcasting is barely contained panic, a lance of adrenaline, the constant danger of burning oneself out of existence. And the more powerful someone becomes, the more real this danger is.