Ethereal Sight. Aurgloroasa can see 60 feet into the Ethereal Plane when it is on the Material Plane, and vice versa.
Incorporeal Movement. Aurgloroasa can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Aurgloroasa fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Aurgloroasa has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness, Aurgloroasa has resistance to damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, Aurgloroasa can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, Aurgloroasa has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Multiattack. Aurgloroasa makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (2d10 + 6) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) necrotic damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +12 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6) slashing damage.
Shadow Breath (Recharge 5–6). Aurgloroasa exhales shadowy fire in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 56 (16d6) necrotic damage, or half as much damage on a successful one. A humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies, and an undead [creature]shadow[/creature] rises from its corpse and acts immediately after the dragon in the initiative count. The shadow is under the dragon’s control.
Horrifying Visage. Each non-undead creature within 60 feet of Aurgloroasa that can see it must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for 1 minute. If the save fails by 5 or more, the target also ages 1d4 × 10 years. A frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the frightened condition on itself on a success. If a target's saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to this Aurgloroasa's Horrifying Visage for the next 24 hours. The aging effect can be reversed with a greater restoration spell, but only within 24 hours of it occurring.
Spellcasting (Necromancy). The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
1/day each: antilife shell, bane, create undead, blindness/deafness
Change Shape. Aurgloroasa magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus action to end it.
Etherealness. Aurgloroasa enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. It is visible on the Material Plane while it is in the Border Ethereal, and vice versa, yet it can't affect or be affected by anything on the other plane.
Aurgloroasa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Aurgloroasa regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Claw. Aurgloroasa makes one Claw attack.
Incorporeal (Costs 2 Actions). Aurgloroasa uses Etherealness or Spellcasting.
Possession (Costs 3 Actions). One humanoid that Aurgloroasa can see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw or be possessed by Aurgloroasa; Aurgloroasa then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. Aurgloroasa now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. Aurgloroasa can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn undead, and it retains its alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, and immunity to being charmed and frightened. It otherwise uses the possessed target's statistics, including gaining access to the target's knowledge, class features, and proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, Aurgloroasa ends it as a bonus action, or Aurgloroasa is turned or forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When the possession ends, Aurgloroasa reappears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the body. The target is immune to Aurgloroasa Possession for 24 hours after succeeding on the saving throw or after the possession ends.
Description
Aurgloroasa was obsessed with research into death, undeath, necromancy, and shadow magic. She also considered herself to be the draconic death god Null's most faithful servant and her most ardent wish was to become his consort and thus a demipower in her own right. Towards this goal she aspired to bring a large portion of Faerûn under her sway and create a draconic theocracy in Null's name.
Born in the Year of the Black Dawn, 426 DR, to Shhuusshuru, she prowled her mother's domain in the Far Hills for nearly two centuries until establishing her first lair in the southwestern Thunder Peaks in 616 DR. Both elven rangers from Cormanthyr and dwarven scouts from Thunderholme noted her arrival but neither race chose to move against her. She stayed out of things for the following century and was eventually forgotten by all but the most devoted dragon hunters (none of whom ever actually got to engage with her).
In 989 DR, dwarven miners from Thunderholme accidentally expanded their works into her lair, rousing her from her sleep. She dispatched the dwarves and caved in their tunnel to make it appear as an accident. She became interested in Thunderholme's operations and observed the dwarves via divination magic and spies summoned from the Plane of Shadow.
In 1001 DR she began whispering dark promises to the dwarven city's High priest of Dumathoin, Dagan. Over the next 33 years his ambition, madness and obsession with death increased and he named his voice the "Sibilant Shade", a name which pleased Aurgloroasa greatly. He rose to a preeminent position in the city thanks to her whispers, second only to his king, Emerlin III. The old king died just after his only son and heir disappeared on a trade mission to Selgaunt in 1034 DR making Dagan regent of Thunderholme in their stead (note: both the king and the prince's fates were caused by the dragon's agents). Dagan used his new power to build a huge temple to Dumathoin in the heart of the city which took 20 years to complete. The regent held a grand ceremony to open the temple in 1054 DR and shocked the city's population by dedicating it to Null instead of Dumathoin, summoning Aurgloroasa, believing her to be Null's avatar. She proceeded to kill all but 30 of the dwarves and then hunted down and killed those over the next few weeks. All those that died then came to serve the dragon in undeath as skeletons.
After her impressive triumph regarding Thunderholme, Aurgloroasa still had more intrigue and activities to keep her busy. She took time to enjoy attacking ships, especially around the mouth of the Lake of Dragons, often in the guise of the more commonly sighted red dragon, Nevalarich. The Ballad of the Shadow Storm was penned in reference to one of her few forays in her true form, after a devastating scuttling outside Westgate in 1091 DR.
Aurgloroasa considered seizing Westgate for her own, but only reconsidered this after the death of the blue dragon Anaglathos of Turmish in 1247 DR.
Under her covert direction, she orchestrated a merchant war in Sembia by using the Night Knives to instigate a three-year civil war between 1254 DR and 1256 DR.
In 1299 DR, Aurgloroasa battled with the enormous black dragon, Arngalor, while she was disguised as a blue dragon. Eventually the Sibilant Shade drew out Arngalor and slew him in the skies over Archendale, where this event became known as the dragon war. She then feigned injury and flew off to recover Arngalor's hoard before anyone else could.
She was approached by the Sembian sect of the Cult of the Dragon in 1305 DR after she had already decided to undergo the transformation to lichdom and left clues for the cult to follow (although that didn't stop her from extorting a massive sum from the cult before she actually said that she agreed to the process). She then bribed, blackmailed and fooled enough cultists to weaken the magical bonds they would place on her when she was finally made into a dracolich in the Year of Lurking Death (1322 DR) so that she would still be an active player in their plans.
Since her transformation, the Sibilant Shade kept quite active (which is unusual for her), she stole the archmage Mhzentul's powerful works and his library of arcane lore in 1340 DR whilst sabotaging the Cult of the Dragon's infiltration of Featherdale.
A few years before 1370 DR she enspelled a hapless adventurer called Orytar into persuading other adventurers to try and defeat her, providing him with a Dethek runestone to Thunderholme that he would give to others. The adventurers would come and she would take their equipment and sacrifice them to her god.
During the Rage of Dragons Aurgloroasa used her status as a dracolich to avoid going mad and easily put herself in place to take over the Sembian cell of the Cult of the Dragon. Already a dominant influence on the cult, when the rage ended, she had effectively taken over the cell and with Sammaster dead, she established a ruling triumvirate of the entire cult with Daurgothoth and First Interpreter Algashon Nathaire which quickly began showing signs of strain.
Now in the 1480s DR, new Cult of the Dragon leader Severin Silrajin has made a new translation of the cult's dogmatic prophecy and argues instead that true draconic knowledge and power is actually the domain of living dragons, not undead dragons. He is inspired by Tiamat and he leads the Cult to serve her purposes. Aurgloroasa has utilized her connections in the Cult of the Dragon to keep tabs on the material plane while she gathered undead armies and power in the Shadowfell. Realizing the shift in philosophy in the Cult, she now seeks to align herself with the new power structure and ultimately position herself at the right hand of Tiamat when she is summoned from the Nine Hells. Her end goal is to fool Tiamat into summoning Null into the Material Plane using her vast resources and following, and then immediately betraying her in his name.
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