Yes! A Pact is the way a dragon will pass that power onto someone – though it's not just power they pass on. You assume the mantle of their responsibilities and their influence and everything else that was theirs – in all ways but the physical, you more or less become them yourself.

It goes two ways, of course. It's not so much that they simply hand this power out to anyone worthy... but they give it to people who share their goals and their ideals. I suppose you could think of it as ensuring they leave behind no unfinished business?

[ Which was Very Much the case for Bryn. ]