Aeginae

"Are you quite sure you want to know this?" Beyond this point lie major spoilers for Fallen London, Sunless Sea, Sunless Skies, or Mask of the Rose. This may include endgame or major Fate-locked spoilers. Proceed at your own risk. You can find out more about our spoiler policy here.

"This is one of the Aeginae. The star-dragons. The behemoth-mercenaries that the suns contract to enforce their laws. Before it, you are only a fleck."

The Aeginae are a race of enormous star-dragons that serve as mercenaries for the Judgements.

The Behemoth-Mercenaries

"You topple two barrels out of an exterior hatch and bellow the order to make full steam away from them. The behemoth's course shifts, fractionally. A maw opens, the size of an oceanic abyss. Its teeth are like suspended mountain-peaks."

Aeginae, also called Dragons, are massive, their bodies the size of mountain ranges. They are equipped with many sharp teeth, with which they feed on time; they also possess a number of lidless, yellow eyes, each containing multiple irises. They make use of ancient sky-tunnels to speed up their journeys in The High Wilderness.

The mother of all Aeginae is the Burrower Below, a continent-sized behemoth that gnaws at the roots of the heavens; she is revered by the skyfarers as one of the three Gods of the High Wilderness.

As is the case with other beings of great power, like Judgements, death is not necessarily the end for the star-dragons, as they can persist in the form of living winds, storms and other similar phenomena. An instance of this is Storm, worshiped as a god by zailors, who can still exert his influence over the Neath despite being dead for a long time.