A dragon does not experience time in the same way as other beings. An adult dragon can witness the birth and passing of a world with the same infinite patience as with the birth and passing of a quark. A dragon measures time and age by gathered experience and knowledge gained. In this Anaxiunara is great among beings.
She comes to a world to bare her eggs and raise her brood. She discovers a species alien to her and possessed of a powerful and frightening magic she has never known. For, except in the time of raising her brood, a dragon's life is a solitary existence.
These fragile little human beings, with their passions and the powers that bond them to their world and each other, know a thing unknown to her. It is a curious thing, and if it can be said that a dragon has a weakness it would be curiosity. Anaxiunara takes human form so to learn this thing, this powerful magic the humans call Love.
In book 1 Captain Jo Lee's wife is murdered by wizards. The young woman he asks to help nanny his kids is, in fact, ancient beyond reckoning and a powerful mage.
Book 2 begins the civil war for the freedom of commoners, folks without magic.