 The Shadow Lord discovered the Ak-Baba when he ordered his followers to find dragon eggs in order to raise his own army of dragons against those of Deltora.However the Shadow Lord did not know that dragons needed to line their nests with human hair or else the hatchlings would come out deformed.The resulting creatures were Ak-Baba, in his frustration the Shadow Lord almost slew the first he hatched but then saw potential in the beast and decided to use it anyway.