Belly of Fire

The Warrior Wizards of the Greater Empire had learned how to control the fire stones mined from the earth. They used the fire stones to power their steel fish ships that traveled under the waves and the people of the Greater Empire accepted the risk. They used the fire stones to power their nesting ships that the Griffin Air Warrior used as their roust and the people accepted the risk. The Alchemists of the Greater Empire piled the fire stones into great power castles that ran the Crystal Cities and the people accepted the risk.

In the light of day the Alchemists created dragons from the flesh of lizards. These dragons could cross oceans and with balls of fire stones tied to their tails to destroy entire kingdoms and the people accepted this with great fear. The Warrior Wizards and Alchemists knew the people would accept a lot but not the feeding of fire stones to dragons. For the dragons fire was born in the belly of the beast in oily pools of vile. If a dragon took the fire stones into its belly of fire then his breath would be more poison than the people would accept.

In the dark of night the Alchemists created Fire Stone Dragons and flew them in secret.
They found ways to lessen the poison in the dragons breath and how to hide it in magical mist.
The Alchemists stole cows from farmers in the Greater Empire and cut the beast to pieces to see if they had been poisoned by the Fire Stone Dragon's breath. The Warrior Wizards made up stories about ghost clouds that stole cows and flew as fast as the Fire Stone Dragons for the people would accept that.