Warning: contains spoilers for my fanfic, the mission, as well as it's soon-to-come, unnamed sequal
The protectors of the altar are a group of animus dragons from all sorts of tribes who guard an altar that is said (and proven in the mission) to allow dragons to travel through dimensions, but only with special permission-and a good reason-is anyone allowed to use it, since the battle of the crystal maze they have resided deep in the diamond caves, further than anyone has gone before