I don’t know. The scale doesn’t operate by that kind of rule. It is a focus for power. You accept the draconic power and weave your own into it.

[He takes the scale back out and turns it in his fingers.] It operates differently for different people. Familiars don’t have a commonality in their shifts either. We are all on personal journeys to find what does.

In short, focus on weaving the magics within and what comes of it might not be Dvalin. I don’t always become the Northern Star. I can choose other shifts from the scale. But I’m most comfortable with that one.

I have another from that life I could take but it isn’t mine.