[@Ghost Queen]
If the soul is monstrous, wouldn't something along the lines of Grendel or another legendary monster be more appropriate?

To my mind, the distinguishing feature of a dragon is that it's the god damned king. The king of the mythical kingdom, the biggest, scariest thing out there and it knows it. Dragons should be mind blowingly arrogant but actually have the power to back it up, sort of like King Geoffrey in Game of Thrones except that the dragon would actually be able to raze cities and burn armies alone. One of the few bits of The Hobbit Trilogy that I liked was Smaug, because he was such a good dragon; powerful, greedy, vain and saw everyone else as fundamentally of lesser importance than himself [i]but was also genuinely cunning and smarter than the dwarves[/i]. So a dragon's soul, if seen through soul vision spectacles, should look terrifyingly majestic and fantastically regal. Better than the viewer in every way, so much better than them that they can hardly be blamed for treating the viewer like dirt.

After all, that's what they are.

Or that's what you feel when you first see them. With time maybe you can look past their power and see that really, they're cold and cruel and not better than other people, just better at making people think they are.

[sub]pls don't hate me jumping in with muh opinions, it's just that dragons are forever my favourite and I have many thoughts on them.
I don't think I'd be able to do them justice in this setting tho so I look forward to yours
feel free to ignore me.[/sub]