…Are you now a dragon, or drake, or whatever? Or is it more a form of druidism? Is there an in-game explanation?
I think the explanation is that the potion temporarily lets you mimic a dragon.
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The Vial is purely a game convention, there’s no lore behind it.
Build your own. Since my Druid is a member of the Artisans of Dragons guild, she interprets it as an advanced form of wildshape. I don’t generally use that mount on anyone but her… until recently.
Since I’ve had to use it so much as Drahliana of late, I interpret it as the Drakefire Amulet that some folks here might remember for the Onyxia attunment.
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Every mount has lore behind it, however basic. They all have descriptions in the mount journal.
This is the Vial of Sands’:
Sandstone Drakes were studied in great detail long ago by the famed alchemist Walleye Sprysprocket. It has even been said that Walleye developed potions to mimic the drakes’ physiology.*
Moreover, since the recipe for the vial only comes from one place (a tol’vir archaeology solve) we can look at the description for the item containing it too:
This jar contains the petrified organs of Emperor Ninjter. He apparently died only a few years into what was hoped would be a glorious reign.
Why a tol’vir pharaoh had the recipe for an elixir developed by a gnome I’m not sure, but that’s what these together tell us.
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It’s so inconsistent, I don’t take it seriously.
In my headcanon it’s like that botanica blood elf alchemist who turned himself into a tree. Weird alchemy
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