Canon Upper Echelon: Volcara

1 of 5. Here's hoping I actually draw all five!

This is sort of what my old deviation "Baby Steps" has evolved into. These characters are a nod to an archetypical set of villains in anime that I can only refer to as "The Four Bosses". Good examples of this would be Talpa's Dark Warlords from Ronin Warriors, or the Four Heavenly Beast Kings from Gurren-Lagann. They're one step below the final boss but still tough enough that fighting them is a big deal. Obviously, I have five of them, but Volcara here mysteriously disappears early on to reduce the batch to the more traditional four.

The group of five, led by Cyderia, makes up the Canon's Upper Echelon. What is the Canon? Most associate it with the religion known as Canonism, which has a firm hold over many of the world's less-advanced human societies. But the true core of the Canon is in the towering CanonFire Corporation, a high-tech manufacturer that secretly exploits Canonism for its own ends. The Echelon members are all dragons, but most of the Canon's employees/missionaries are humans, predominantly women. (Cyderia: "An employer must have standards.")