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[quote who="jonmdewey" reply="2" id="3336644"] dances with dragons, allows you to build on dragon lairs / monuments. These buildings give you dragons. The monuments are pretty rare, but a large map will usually have several dragon lairs. The production of the dragons is on a timer like wildlings. If you wait long enough it will give you more dragons.[/quote] As far as I know you can only get 1 dragon per structure. If you look at the progress bar after the dragon is finishe

There are still areas with essences. You might have had some bad luck with the map generator. I founded a city earlier with 3 and my second one had 2.