D.F. Harvester

(disclaimer: "D.F." means "Dragon-Flesh") A sort of dual-role between Breeder and Caretaker within the hive of dragon-flesh, where every drone, Queen, and Empress at least *looks* like a dragon. She's one of the less overzealous drones, instead hooking up dragons to sperm-collectors if they're male or egg-collecters if they're female. She prefers willing donors but will allow hosts to be assigned to her. She remembers her existence before the hive but prefers her current existence as a caring host. She cares for the resulting hatchlings. Tiers in the hive: Biomass—general food and infrastructure, non-dragons and falling-apart drones become this. Drones—build and collect stuff, completely mindless, created by Workers. Worker—several different roles, remembers their past, prefers this, created by Queens. Queen—ruler of smaller hives, remembers very little about their past, created by Empresses. Males are called Kings. Empress—the ruler of far larger hives, very rare mutations in the creation process of a Quren, remembers everything about everything under them. Males are called Emperors. Overlord—a giant pillar of writhing dragon flesh, the creator of the dragon-flesh parasite that made them all. Seed—a tiny blob of dragon-flesh, hijacked the first host's body to turn them into the Overlord.