you read the title, currently there are 3 count 'em 3 types of dagron.
cromatic. evil
metallic. good
gem. neutral
and in 2nd and 3rd edition, ported into 5e by dungeon dad, there are ferrous dragons, who are lawful.
but what if there was a 5th? a chaotic species. that's what were making here. the ferrous dragons are all named after metallic elements, ex. tungsten, chromium, cobalt. what if we name these chaotic dragons after those weirdo high numbered elements or the ones that are radioactive? were gonna make 5 dragons to fit into this category, witch really needs a name. y'all post any and all ideas for this group, and well make them into something dragon shaped!
but for every dragon group, there is a god.
the god of the chaotic dragons is named Shuulagnar, the Astatine(look it up) dragon. Shuulagnar is both toxic and radioactive. their presence decays the land around them, and kills nearly anything that gets to close. including dragons, Shuulaganr, while being a dragon god, one of the most powerful beings, would trade it all for company. they slumber beneath a crumbling mountain, and spend their waking moments contemplating how to end their immortal life. without direction from their god, this unnamed group of dragons dissolved into chaos.
any ideas help.
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To be fair, there's actually been many more major types of dragon through the editions.
Yes, there's your standard Chromatic, Metallic and Gems, and as you mentioned the Ferrous dragons, but there were also the Lung dragons, themed around Asian mythology, Planar Dragons, assigned to each Outer Plane, both transitory planes (Astral and Ethereal) and both multiplanar rivers (Oceanus and Styx). Fourth edition brought about the Catastrophic Dragons, each elementally themed around natural disasters. For smaller and less defined True Dragon types, you also had the Spelljamming dragons which have seen reprinting recently, and the less defined Epic Dragons of third edition which were... kind of a mixed bag.
That's not even touching upon the Lesser Dragons - Linnorms, Elemental Drakes, Felldrakes and landwyrms.
(Edit: Just because I feel like correcting myself - *technically* three transitory planes! - In 2nd and 3rd edition, The Plane of Shadow was it's own thing before the Feywild and Shadowfell were added and Shadow Dragons were their own standalone creature, rather than an altered version of an existing dragon type per 5e!)
A dragon that is straight up NEPTUNIUM (look it up) and has EXPLOSIVE BREATH!!! Also, americium would be fun, and the dragon is red, white, and blue. The breath deals necrotic damage.
Yes, chromatic dragons are evil dragons. Metallic dragons are good dragons.
Right out of the gate we have a problem because the metallic dragons are a small subclass of metal generally accepted to be precious metals. I'll get back to that with the 4th type.
I was not aware, but I have only a handful of the books (PHB, DMG, MM, XGTE, one or two others, but no "settings" books), that Gem dragons were an official thing in D&D. I have a book by MCDM's team that gives Gem Dragons and I think they are cool. But are they official?
Ferrous Dragons ... would be pretty limited because you would have maybe 3? Not many folks are into metallurgy as I am, so I would expect ferrous dragons would be iron, steel and Stainless (or chromium) Steel. Tungsten, Chromium, Cobalt are not ferrous metals. And why would they be a 4th type not included in Metal Dragons? I could see Ferrous Dragons being Lawful Good, but they would be a subset of Good in that case. As a matter of fact, I am planning on adding steel and Iron Dragons to my world.
So while we're talking about metal dragons, why didn't mithril and bescar and adamantium not get into the list of metal dragons? I suspect it is because they wanted a good balance and they have about seven of each. But I've seen homebrew stats for Yellow and Orange Dragons, so there is room to expand the color wheel.
But I have often thought of a Mercury Dragon, and how would that be different from regular D&D dragons? Well, I would make a Mercury Dragon an Oriental dragon and I think he would be chaotic, maybe chaotic neutral.
I don't mind the idea of a group of dragons being lawful and another group being chaotic. I just can't think of a group of solids that inspire that theme.
On the other hand, I am surprised they haven't come up with four or eight elemental dragons and called them Neutral. You could have Earth, Fire, Air and Water Dragons that would be very very different from the "standard" dragons. You might even have Mud, and Steam, and Smoke and Lava Dragons (elemental mixtures) to give you eight types. Each of these could "lean" into something outside of true neutral, but overall be called true neutral on the alignment graph.
Anyway, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what would make chaotic dragons. Maybe some sort of subset of Chromatic Dragons. Maybe these could be shades of Gray and the Black Dragon would be placed in this category, and maybe even the White Dragon too.
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I was not aware, but I have only a handful of the books (PHB, DMG, MM, XGTE, one or two others, but no "settings" books), that Gem dragons were an official thing in D&D. I have a book by MCDM's team that gives Gem Dragons and I think they are cool. But are they official?
Gem Dragons have been around forever, with statblocks dating back to second edition - perhaps earlier! - They've just never been under the same spotlight as Metallics and Chromatics which are included in every edition's Monster Manual release. Gem Dragons typically arrive in a supplement - Monster Manual 2 for 3.5, Fizban's for 5th edition. Because they have been portrayed as psionic, it rather helps to have other supplementary sourcebooks that've touched upon how psionics function.
Ferrous Dragons ... would be pretty limited because you would have maybe 3? Not many folks are into metallurgy as I am, so I would expect ferrous dragons would be iron, steel and Stainless (or chromium) Steel. Tungsten, Chromium, Cobalt are not ferrous metals. And why would they be a 4th type not included in Metal Dragons? I could see Ferrous Dragons being Lawful Good, but they would be a subset of Good in that case. As a matter of fact, I am planning on adding steel and Iron Dragons to my world.
Dragon #170 listed Chromium, Cobalt, Iron, Nickel and Tungsten, they were then updated to third edition in Dragon #356. As you've noted, the actual ferrous-ness of said dragons is... awkward. They represent the Lawful third of the alignments, Tungstens were LG, Iron being LN, while Cobalts, Chromium and Nickel were LE. They haven't been published in any sourcebooks, but might surface again in future supplements.
So while we're talking about metal dragons, why didn't mithril and bescar and adamantium not get into the list of metal dragons? I suspect it is because they wanted a good balance and they have about seven of each. But I've seen homebrew stats for Yellow and Orange Dragons, so there is room to expand the color wheel.
But I have often thought of a Mercury Dragon, and how would that be different from regular D&D dragons? Well, I would make a Mercury Dragon an Oriental dragon and I think he would be chaotic, maybe chaotic neutral.
Well, Firstly - 'Cause none of those three can be used - Adamantium is Marvel Comics, We've got Adamantine. Mithril (with an 'i') is Tolkien, but we've got Mithral (with an 'a') at home! Beskar is Star Wars, so unless your spelljammer got exceptionally lost...
As for the dragons you're suggesting, weirdly, they already exist and in earlier editions, there were more chromatic, metallic and gem variants than the far more popular 'main five'.
Chromatics had included Brown, Grey and Purple dragons in 4th edition, with various other colors appearing in earlier editions. Interestingly, Purple Dragons were re-written Deep Dragons and Greys were Fang Dragons, both of which had been True Dragon subtypes outside the main spectrums in earlier editions, with Deep Dragons going rogue again in 5th! For what it's worth, Pink dragons were an april fools day statblock in a 1990 edition of Dragon. Faerun's kingdom of Cormyr's famous 'Purple Dragon' was actually a Black Dragon, just to complicate things further!
Metallics in fourth edition included Adamantine, Cobalt, Iron, Mercury, Mithral, Orium and Steel dragons, with most of those and the inclusion of Electrum and Platinum (Not just Bahamut) going back further. Note that Iron and Cobalt reappear here. Adamantine dragons were also the Planar Dragon for the Twin Paradises of Bytopia. It's hard being a dragon - It's never clear where you actually belong!
On the other hand, I am surprised they haven't come up with four or eight elemental dragons and called them Neutral. You could have Earth, Fire, Air and Water Dragons that would be very very different from the "standard" dragons. You might even have Mud, and Steam, and Smoke and Lava Dragons (elemental mixtures) to give you eight types. Each of these could "lean" into something outside of true neutral, but overall be called true neutral on the alignment graph.
While the Catastrophic Dragons of 4th edition leaned more heavily into the elemental theme, 3.5 had Elemental Drakes - Lesser Dragons that embodied the elemental and Para-elemental forces - Air, Earth, Fire and Water, and your planar-adjacent mixes, Ice, Magma, Ooze and Smoke!
A dragon that is straight up NEPTUNIUM (look it up) and has EXPLOSIVE BREATH!!!
I looked it up, its pretty neat.
for those of you who care about your search history, Neptunium is a silvery, flammable, radioactive metal. it has the largest liquid range of any element(if you put it in a box at 0k, and cranked up the temperature, it would stay liquid the longest before turning into gas) and has 5 oxidation states, each with a different color! wouldn't it be neat if at each of the age categories had a diffrent color of oxidation...
I'd have proposed Elemental Dragons. I mean ... I realise red dragons are kinda elemental-y, but they're not made of fire. But, if I just stick with my own idea, despite it being slightly off-topic, because I like it:
Obviously, there'd be four primary elemental dragons: Fire, Earth, Wind and Water. They'd have specific powers - firestorms, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, respectively. To my mind, they don't have breath weapons, but devastating physical attacks, and also they naturally attract smaller elemental creatures.
Also, I think there may only ever be one elder elemental dragon. So ... as they grow, they challenge each other, and merge, the winner absorbing the loser - until, eventually, all must challenge the Elder, and either become or be absorbed by it.
Anyways ... a um, 6th type =)
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Einsteinium Dragon. ??? breath. Hoards knowledge and means to gather more. EXTREAMLY SMART, able to comprehend the most esoteric knowledge by virtue if its chaotic nature. ???
???. ??? breath . ??? hoards. ???. ???
if you post an idea, I'll probably add it, unless theres already an idea in its spot, in witch case ill judge with idea is better (or happed first if I'm feeling lazy)
If I was to weigh in on nuclear dragons ... I find them problematic. For instance, they seem to heavily imply a lot of language that doesn't exist in the usual fantasy world. Such as emission, radiation, various elements we didn't find until recently .. and so on.
So, I get why: These are chaotic dragons, so it makes sense for them to be unstable and volatile. But maybe I'd go looking for a fantasy equivalent .. somehow. I don't necessarily have any solutions here.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
If I was to weigh in on nuclear dragons ... I find them problematic. For instance, they seem to heavily imply a lot of language that doesn't exist in the usual fantasy world. Such as emission, radiation, various elements we didn't find until recently .. and so on.
So, I get why: These are chaotic dragons, so it makes sense for them to be unstable and volatile. But maybe I'd go looking for a fantasy equivalent .. somehow. I don't necessarily have any solutions here.
I mainly chose radioactive elements because the lawful dragons are all named after elements too. so I went looking for the most chaotic group of elements I could find. maybe there's a magic particle accelerator somewhere?
Well - yes, true, but what is the word for it in ancient greek? Nothing. Because even so, they had no idea =)
I was trying to think of other chaotic elements, or processes, or whatever - and I came up blank. So yea, it's not like I have a better idea. Just here to provide criticism without proposing solutions =D
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Thinking of radioactive elements that could get assigned a dragon, what about Einsteinium? A dragon that instead of hoarding gold and treasure, hoards knowledge, and has regional affects that emit curiosity to seek out this knowledge. Towns near the dragon's lair could suddenly become much further advanced then other areas of the country as they discover new things and make scientific breakthroughs, and the older the dragon gets, the more potent secrets it uncovers. By the time it's Ancient, it could unravel the secrets of the multiverse and cause planar wyrmholes (I'll see myself out) to appear as Lair Actions, and for an Einsteinium Greatwyrm, it could literally uncover knowledge so potent that it can shatter a mortal mind, and only a creature of such age and experience such as itself can deal with such knowledge. Literal localised Far Realm knowledge, right there in your local library, hiding out as a polymorphed book keeper trying to learn how to speak Quipper. Like, imagine going to defeat this dragon, and it's so wise and astute that it practically has a permanent detect thoughts active. You walk in the room, it takes one look at your face and recounts the history of your ancestors. It's literally omnipotent, but just through millennia of study. You go to raid its hoard and it's just a fancy abacus, 30,000 page dictionary, and a house sized chalkboard.
As for appearance, it'd be a soft, silvery metal dragon like the actual element, glowing with raw Brain Power, but part of me wants to give it a wacky Vegapunk-style giant brain as well, or maybe something like the Elder Brain Dragon could be implemented, idk, just an idea! (definitely gonna be using this at somepoint)
What about Phantasmic Dragons? There could be Skeletal, Ghost, Spirit and Soul. They would be dragons from the underworld, risen by a necromatic ritual. They could maybe share one trait of an alive dragon. Each type would have a unique ability tied to death somehow.
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you read the title, currently there are 3 count 'em 3 types of dagron.
cromatic. evil
metallic. good
gem. neutral
and in 2nd and 3rd edition, ported into 5e by dungeon dad, there are ferrous dragons, who are lawful.
but what if there was a 5th? a chaotic species. that's what were making here. the ferrous dragons are all named after metallic elements, ex. tungsten, chromium, cobalt. what if we name these chaotic dragons after those weirdo high numbered elements or the ones that are radioactive? were gonna make 5 dragons to fit into this category, witch really needs a name. y'all post any and all ideas for this group, and well make them into something dragon shaped!
but for every dragon group, there is a god.
the god of the chaotic dragons is named Shuulagnar, the Astatine(look it up) dragon. Shuulagnar is both toxic and radioactive. their presence decays the land around them, and kills nearly anything that gets to close. including dragons, Shuulaganr, while being a dragon god, one of the most powerful beings, would trade it all for company. they slumber beneath a crumbling mountain, and spend their waking moments contemplating how to end their immortal life. without direction from their god, this unnamed group of dragons dissolved into chaos.
any ideas help.
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If they are all Radioactive you could name them Emitting Dragons.
I like it!
they're called emmiting dragons now
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To be fair, there's actually been many more major types of dragon through the editions.
Yes, there's your standard Chromatic, Metallic and Gems, and as you mentioned the Ferrous dragons, but there were also the Lung dragons, themed around Asian mythology, Planar Dragons, assigned to each Outer Plane, both transitory planes (Astral and Ethereal) and both multiplanar rivers (Oceanus and Styx).
Fourth edition brought about the Catastrophic Dragons, each elementally themed around natural disasters.
For smaller and less defined True Dragon types, you also had the Spelljamming dragons which have seen reprinting recently, and the less defined Epic Dragons of third edition which were... kind of a mixed bag.
That's not even touching upon the Lesser Dragons - Linnorms, Elemental Drakes, Felldrakes and landwyrms.
(Edit: Just because I feel like correcting myself - *technically* three transitory planes! - In 2nd and 3rd edition, The Plane of Shadow was it's own thing before the Feywild and Shadowfell were added and Shadow Dragons were their own standalone creature, rather than an altered version of an existing dragon type per 5e!)
interesting. I knew some of those, but not all of them.
neat.
maybe we could take some inspiration from those catastrophic dragons...
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A dragon that is straight up NEPTUNIUM (look it up) and has EXPLOSIVE BREATH!!! Also, americium would be fun, and the dragon is red, white, and blue. The breath deals necrotic damage.
I need to back up a bit please.
Yes, chromatic dragons are evil dragons. Metallic dragons are good dragons.
Right out of the gate we have a problem because the metallic dragons are a small subclass of metal generally accepted to be precious metals. I'll get back to that with the 4th type.
I was not aware, but I have only a handful of the books (PHB, DMG, MM, XGTE, one or two others, but no "settings" books), that Gem dragons were an official thing in D&D. I have a book by MCDM's team that gives Gem Dragons and I think they are cool. But are they official?
Ferrous Dragons ... would be pretty limited because you would have maybe 3? Not many folks are into metallurgy as I am, so I would expect ferrous dragons would be iron, steel and Stainless (or chromium) Steel. Tungsten, Chromium, Cobalt are not ferrous metals. And why would they be a 4th type not included in Metal Dragons? I could see Ferrous Dragons being Lawful Good, but they would be a subset of Good in that case. As a matter of fact, I am planning on adding steel and Iron Dragons to my world.
So while we're talking about metal dragons, why didn't mithril and bescar and adamantium not get into the list of metal dragons? I suspect it is because they wanted a good balance and they have about seven of each. But I've seen homebrew stats for Yellow and Orange Dragons, so there is room to expand the color wheel.
But I have often thought of a Mercury Dragon, and how would that be different from regular D&D dragons? Well, I would make a Mercury Dragon an Oriental dragon and I think he would be chaotic, maybe chaotic neutral.
I don't mind the idea of a group of dragons being lawful and another group being chaotic. I just can't think of a group of solids that inspire that theme.
On the other hand, I am surprised they haven't come up with four or eight elemental dragons and called them Neutral. You could have Earth, Fire, Air and Water Dragons that would be very very different from the "standard" dragons. You might even have Mud, and Steam, and Smoke and Lava Dragons (elemental mixtures) to give you eight types. Each of these could "lean" into something outside of true neutral, but overall be called true neutral on the alignment graph.
Anyway, I'm still trying to wrap my head around what would make chaotic dragons. Maybe some sort of subset of Chromatic Dragons. Maybe these could be shades of Gray and the Black Dragon would be placed in this category, and maybe even the White Dragon too.
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Gem Dragons have been around forever, with statblocks dating back to second edition - perhaps earlier! - They've just never been under the same spotlight as Metallics and Chromatics which are included in every edition's Monster Manual release. Gem Dragons typically arrive in a supplement - Monster Manual 2 for 3.5, Fizban's for 5th edition. Because they have been portrayed as psionic, it rather helps to have other supplementary sourcebooks that've touched upon how psionics function.
Dragon #170 listed Chromium, Cobalt, Iron, Nickel and Tungsten, they were then updated to third edition in Dragon #356. As you've noted, the actual ferrous-ness of said dragons is... awkward. They represent the Lawful third of the alignments, Tungstens were LG, Iron being LN, while Cobalts, Chromium and Nickel were LE.
They haven't been published in any sourcebooks, but might surface again in future supplements.
Well, Firstly - 'Cause none of those three can be used - Adamantium is Marvel Comics, We've got Adamantine. Mithril (with an 'i') is Tolkien, but we've got Mithral (with an 'a') at home! Beskar is Star Wars, so unless your spelljammer got exceptionally lost...
As for the dragons you're suggesting, weirdly, they already exist and in earlier editions, there were more chromatic, metallic and gem variants than the far more popular 'main five'.
Chromatics had included Brown, Grey and Purple dragons in 4th edition, with various other colors appearing in earlier editions. Interestingly, Purple Dragons were re-written Deep Dragons and Greys were Fang Dragons, both of which had been True Dragon subtypes outside the main spectrums in earlier editions, with Deep Dragons going rogue again in 5th! For what it's worth, Pink dragons were an april fools day statblock in a 1990 edition of Dragon.
Faerun's kingdom of Cormyr's famous 'Purple Dragon' was actually a Black Dragon, just to complicate things further!
Metallics in fourth edition included Adamantine, Cobalt, Iron, Mercury, Mithral, Orium and Steel dragons, with most of those and the inclusion of Electrum and Platinum (Not just Bahamut) going back further. Note that Iron and Cobalt reappear here. Adamantine dragons were also the Planar Dragon for the Twin Paradises of Bytopia. It's hard being a dragon - It's never clear where you actually belong!
While the Catastrophic Dragons of 4th edition leaned more heavily into the elemental theme, 3.5 had Elemental Drakes - Lesser Dragons that embodied the elemental and Para-elemental forces - Air, Earth, Fire and Water, and your planar-adjacent mixes, Ice, Magma, Ooze and Smoke!
I looked it up, its pretty neat.
for those of you who care about your search history, Neptunium is a silvery, flammable, radioactive metal. it has the largest liquid range of any element(if you put it in a box at 0k, and cranked up the temperature, it would stay liquid the longest before turning into gas) and has 5 oxidation states, each with a different color! wouldn't it be neat if at each of the age categories had a diffrent color of oxidation...
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Elrowade,
Thanks for filling in the history. I played AD&D and 5e. I am surprised they made dragons of other varieties and then dropped them.
Ed
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I'd have proposed Elemental Dragons. I mean ... I realise red dragons are kinda elemental-y, but they're not made of fire. But, if I just stick with my own idea, despite it being slightly off-topic, because I like it:
Obviously, there'd be four primary elemental dragons: Fire, Earth, Wind and Water. They'd have specific powers - firestorms, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis, respectively. To my mind, they don't have breath weapons, but devastating physical attacks, and also they naturally attract smaller elemental creatures.
Also, I think there may only ever be one elder elemental dragon. So ... as they grow, they challenge each other, and merge, the winner absorbing the loser - until, eventually, all must challenge the Elder, and either become or be absorbed by it.
Anyways ... a um, 6th type =)
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that sounds cool.
Just to recap the emmiting dragons...
God; Shullagnar
if you post an idea, I'll probably add it, unless theres already an idea in its spot, in witch case ill judge with idea is better (or happed first if I'm feeling lazy)
italics mean its not finalized.
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If I was to weigh in on nuclear dragons ... I find them problematic. For instance, they seem to heavily imply a lot of language that doesn't exist in the usual fantasy world. Such as emission, radiation, various elements we didn't find until recently .. and so on.
So, I get why: These are chaotic dragons, so it makes sense for them to be unstable and volatile. But maybe I'd go looking for a fantasy equivalent .. somehow. I don't necessarily have any solutions here.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
I mainly chose radioactive elements because the lawful dragons are all named after elements too. so I went looking for the most chaotic group of elements I could find. maybe there's a magic particle accelerator somewhere?
*alsoastatinecanbefoundnaturallyalthoughextreamlyrarelyintheearthscrust*
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Well - yes, true, but what is the word for it in ancient greek? Nothing. Because even so, they had no idea =)
I was trying to think of other chaotic elements, or processes, or whatever - and I came up blank. So yea, it's not like I have a better idea. Just here to provide criticism without proposing solutions =D
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what if there was an emmiting dragon whose wings are almost vestigial? because they live in caves and scuttle around on eight stumpy legs?
or a fully aquatic dragon, who is a very big problem because their presence fouls the water they live in?
I think it would be neat if we played with the emitting dragons' basic body shape.
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Uranium dragons who shoot poison, because uranium is deadly to the touch and be poisonous
Thinking of radioactive elements that could get assigned a dragon, what about Einsteinium? A dragon that instead of hoarding gold and treasure, hoards knowledge, and has regional affects that emit curiosity to seek out this knowledge. Towns near the dragon's lair could suddenly become much further advanced then other areas of the country as they discover new things and make scientific breakthroughs, and the older the dragon gets, the more potent secrets it uncovers. By the time it's Ancient, it could unravel the secrets of the multiverse and cause planar wyrmholes (I'll see myself out) to appear as Lair Actions, and for an Einsteinium Greatwyrm, it could literally uncover knowledge so potent that it can shatter a mortal mind, and only a creature of such age and experience such as itself can deal with such knowledge. Literal localised Far Realm knowledge, right there in your local library, hiding out as a polymorphed book keeper trying to learn how to speak Quipper. Like, imagine going to defeat this dragon, and it's so wise and astute that it practically has a permanent detect thoughts active. You walk in the room, it takes one look at your face and recounts the history of your ancestors. It's literally omnipotent, but just through millennia of study. You go to raid its hoard and it's just a fancy abacus, 30,000 page dictionary, and a house sized chalkboard.
As for appearance, it'd be a soft, silvery metal dragon like the actual element, glowing with raw Brain Power, but part of me wants to give it a wacky Vegapunk-style giant brain as well, or maybe something like the Elder Brain Dragon could be implemented, idk, just an idea! (definitely gonna be using this at somepoint)
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What about Phantasmic Dragons? There could be Skeletal, Ghost, Spirit and Soul. They would be dragons from the underworld, risen by a necromatic ritual. They could maybe share one trait of an alive dragon. Each type would have a unique ability tied to death somehow.
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