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Mighty, wise and righteous, gold dragons are the greatest of the metallics and of all true dragons, and champions of goodness with few equals. They prefer to lair in secluded places with picturesque scenery around a lake, river or shoreline, where only the most dedicated or desperate petitioners will reach them. While gold dragon enjoy gems and pearls as delicacies, their favorite treasure is items they can learn from, whether rare texts, puzzles, or even a reminder of a past defeat.

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Mighty, wise and righteous, gold dragons are the greatest of the metallics and of all true dragons, and champions of goodness with few equals. They prefer to lair in secluded places with picturesque scenery around a lake, river or shoreline, where only the most dedicated or desperate petitioners will reach them. While gold dragon enjoy gems and pearls as delicacies, their favorite treasure is treasures are items they can learn from, whether rare texts, puzzles, or even a reminder of a past defeat.
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* MinionMaster: Cobalt dragons will often dominate a tribe of kobolds to help defend their territories, and their shared traits -- a love of traps, sadistic tendencies, similar favored environments -- has led some to presume that cobalt dragons are the kobolds' progenitors.

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* MinionMaster: TheMinionMaster: Cobalt dragons will often dominate a tribe of kobolds to help defend their territories, and their shared traits -- a love of traps, sadistic tendencies, similar favored environments -- has led some to presume that cobalt dragons are the kobolds' progenitors.



* MinionMaster: As part of their drive to recreate fallen empires, they typically "adopt" local humanoid populations as vassals, providing protection in exchange for tribute

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* {{Retcon}}: The concept of planar echoes and dragonsight as a whole was invented in 5th Edition. Previously, "great wyrm" was simply the oldest age category a dragon could reach, and the only special thing about them was that they could survive that long.

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* {{Retcon}}: The concept of planar echoes and dragonsight as a whole was invented in 5th Edition. Previously, "great wyrm" was simply the oldest age category a dragon could reach, with access to the most powerful of that dragon's innate abilities, and the only special thing about them was that they could survive that long.



* NamesTheSame: ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'' is also home to a family of dragons known as Gem Dragons, who have absolutely nothing to do with the "standard" Gem Dragons of the rest of the D&D multiverse. They consist of the Crystal Dragon (renamed the ''Crystalline'' Dragon when updated to 2nd edition), Onyx Dragon, Jade Dragon, Sapphire Dragon, Ruby Dragon, and Amber Dragon.



* RememberTheNewGuy: The third edition lore for gem dragons talks about obsidian dragons as if they'd been part of the family all along, but they hadn't appeared at all in earlier editions. The closest analogue might be the Mystaran Onyx Dragon, which was more like a DumbMuscle variation of the standard Black Dragon.



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Flighty and carefree creatures as mercurial as the metal they are named after, mercury dragons live their lives in an endless pursuit of new and interesting experiences. They make their lairs in high caves facing the sunrise, overlooking sparkling vistas like lakes and snowfields, which can result in territorial competition with red dragons. They're not considered to be part of any broader family in most editions, although 4th treats them as metallic dragons.

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Flighty and carefree creatures as mercurial as
[[folder:Mystaran Gem Dragons]]

Native to
the metal they world of ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'', Mystaran Gem Dragons are named after, mercury divergent strains of the original native dragons live their lives in an endless pursuit of new -- Red, Blue, Black, White, Green and interesting experiences. Gold -- with slightly altered physical appearances, unique breath weapons, and outlooks on the world. They make their lairs appear in high caves facing only two sources; the sunrise, overlooking sparkling vistas like lakes ''Rules Cyclopedia'' for BECMI, and snowfields, which can result in territorial competition with red dragons. They're not considered to be part the ''Monstrous Compendium Mystara Appendix'' for 2nd edition. They consist of any broader family in most editions, although 4th treats them as metallic dragons.the Crystal Dragon (later renamed Crystalline Dragon), a variant White Dragon; the Onyx Dragon (Black Dragon); the Ruby Dragon (Red Dragon); the Sapphire Dragon (Blue Dragon); the Jade Dragon (Green Dragon) and the Amber Dragon (Gold Dragon).


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* AllYourPowersCombined: Downplayed with the BreathWeapon of the Mystaran Amber Dragon; it combines the fire damage and equipment destruction effect of the Mystaran Ruby Dragon's breath with the rotting disease effect of the Mystaran Jade Dragon's breath. It's essentially a blast of magical radiation.
* AndIMustScream: The Mystaran Sapphire Dragon's BreathWeapon is a "Vaporization Beam"; any target that survives the electrical damage is transmuted into a conscious but immobile and invisible cloud of gas. Fortunately, it only lasts for 1 round per hit die of the dragon, after which the victim reforms.
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Ironically, despite the terrifyingly visceral nature of the Mystaran Jade Dragon's miasma breath, they're considered to be amongst the most conversational, least hostile of all the dragons to be found on Mystara, with a deep love of art and philosophy.
* BreathWeapon: The signature difference of Mystaran Gem Dragons between themselves and their "regular" Mystaran counterparts is that their breath weapons possess unique secondary attributes.
* CastingAShadow: The Onyx Dragon's BreathWeapon is a billowing cloud of corrosive darkness, which combines the acidic damage of a black dragon's breath with a magical cloud of darkness.
* DumbMuscle:
** Onyx Dragons may ''look'' a lot like black dragons, but are are vicious, dull-witted, near-animalistic brutes. They have an average Intelligence score of ''5-7'', which is lower even than a white dragon's! They're so dumb that they're considered more aggressive animals than genuinely malicious, giving them an official alignment of Neutral rather than Evil.
** Inverted with Crystalline Dragons, who are notably smarter than the white dragons they resemble.
* MakeThemRot: The Mystaran Jade Dragon's BreathWeapon is a billowing cloud of "Toxic Miasma", which combines the effects of a green dragon's chlorine gas breath with a magical disease that causes living creatures and organic matter to rapidly dissolve into a putrescent goo.
* TakenForGranite: The Crystalline Dragon's BreathWeapon is a "Crystalizing Blast", which not only inflicts frost damage, but also transmutes the victim and their belongings into solid crystal.
* WeaponsBreakingWeapons: A variant can be seen in the Mystaran Ruby Dragon's BreathWeapon; their "Melting Fire" not only does fire damage like a regular red dragon's breath, but it also causes the victim's gear to rapidly break down and destroy, representing the fire clinging to them and burning or melting anything they were carrying.
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Flighty and carefree creatures as mercurial as the metal they are named after, mercury dragons live their lives in an endless pursuit of new and interesting experiences. They make their lairs in high caves facing the sunrise, overlooking sparkling vistas like lakes and snowfields, which can result in territorial competition with red dragons. They're not considered to be part of any broader family in most editions, although 4th treats them as metallic dragons.
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* TheBusCameBack: Moonstone Dragons debuted in 2nd edition in the ''Monstrous Compendium Appendix Annual Volume 2'', and after that were ignored for decades until 5th edition saw them return in ''Fizban's Treasury of Dragons''.



* MageSpecies: All true dragons are natural sorcerers, but even a gold great wyrm's spellcasting ability taps out at Caster Level 19, falling short of what humanoid archmages are capable of. Arcane dragons, in contrast, advance more rapidly in caster level as they age, so that the oldest hex dragons work their magic as 21st level sorcerers, while tome dragon great wyrms are effectively CL 25. They also have an instinctive understanding of a wide vareity of spells -- hex dragons know all enchantment and necromancy spells on the sorcerer spell list, while tome dragons know all conjuration and divination spells available to clerics with the Knowledge domain.

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* MageSpecies: The definitive trait of the Arcane Dragon species is its affinity for arcane magic. All true dragons are natural naturally magical, with spell-like abilities and the full casting ability of sorcerers, but even a gold great wyrm's their spellcasting ability taps out at Caster Level 19, abilities tend to be very limited and slow-maturing, typically falling short of what humanoid archmages are capable of. Arcane of achieving. Metallic dragons, in and the Red Dragon, don't start gaining spellcasting abilities until they reach the Young Dragon age category, tap out at Caster Level 19, and even reaching that requires they reach all the way to the Great Wyrm age category, which can take roughly a thousand years. Chromatic Dragons have it even worse -- Blue and Green Dragons don't start gaining spells until they are Juvenile Dragons and tap out as 17th level casters, Black Dragons need to be Young Adults and max out at 15th level, and White Dragons need to be Adults and have a level cap of ''13th level''. In contrast, advance more rapidly in caster level as they age, so that Arcane Dragons get the oldest hex dragons work their ability to use arcane magic as 21st far earlier -- Tome Dragons can literally use magic (as 3rd level sorcerers, while tome no less!) from the moment they hatch, whilst Hex Dragons gain the equivalent of 1st level sorcerer-dom from the Very Young age category, which is the 2nd on the list. They also have a much broader array of spells they can cast; in addition to the normal number of spells known they would have for being an equivalent sorcerer, an arcane dragon great wyrms also instinctively knows all spells from the Cleric domain of Knowledge[[note]]Detect Secret Doors, Detect Thoughts, Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, Divination, True Seeing, Find The Path, Legend Lore, Discern Location, Foresight[[/note]] as well as all sorcerer spells from two schools of arcane magic - Enchantment and Necromancy for the hex dragon, and Conjuration and Divination for the tome dragon.
* {{Foil}}: Tome and Hex Dragons
are effectively CL 25. They also have an instinctive understanding foils to each other. Both are {{Squishy Wizard}}s who favor indirect schools of a wide vareity of spells -- magic and instead act as "back-row leaders". However, hex dragons know all enchantment are malevolent, cruel and necromancy spells on selfish ones whose minions are either mind-thralled slaves or undead abominations raised by the sorcerer spell list, while foulest magic, whilst tome dragons know all conjuration are benign leaders who instead rely on contracted extraplanar allies and divination spells available the use of magic to clerics ensure they can deploy their forces with maximum effectiveness.
* PsychicRadar: A sufficiently old Arcane Dragon can cast the Detect Thoughts spell, which allows it to sense any sapient creature within a fairly wide area.
* {{Seers}}: Due to their innate possession of
the Knowledge domain.Domain spells, arcane dragons possess access to a number of of oracular abilities.



* CounterAttack: When injured in combat, hex dragons can channel their pain and anger into a retributive curse, the severity of which grows more powerful as they age. Wyrnlings can merely sicken foes, but eventually the dragon can render attackers crippled by agony, blind, permanently insane, or obliterated as if they'd touched a ''sphere of annihilation''.

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* BlackMagic: Hex dragons are themed around the use of evil sorcery, and thus they have an intuitive understanding of both the necromancy and enchantment schools of magic, ensuring that they know ''all'' spells of those schools available to sorcerers in addition to their normal pool.
* BewareTheMindReader: Well, more like Beware The Mind ''Controller'', but the sinister applications of the Enchantment school, a branch of magic that revolves around controlling the minds of others, are why it's associated with the evil arcane dragon.
* CharmPerson: With an affinity for Enchantment spells, hex dragons excel at controlling the wills of others.
* CounterAttack: When injured in combat, hex dragons can channel their pain and anger into a retributive curse, the severity of which grows more powerful as they age. Wyrnlings Wyrmlings can merely sicken foes, but eventually the dragon can render attackers crippled by agony, blind, permanently insane, or obliterated as if they'd touched a ''sphere of annihilation''.annihilation''.
* DarkIsEvil: Hex Dragons are the evil branch of the arcane dragon family, and are distinguished by their dark coloration. Ironically, they start their lives as "corpse-pale" white, but darken to an "[[PurpleIsPowerful eldritch purple]]" as they age.



* FatBastard: Wyrmling hex dragons have flabby bodies that, combined with their corpse-pale scales, make them look almost like giant maggots. They shrivel up and become LeanAndMean as they age, however.
* LeanAndMean: An adult hex dragon is lean, wiry and serpentine in appearance, and also a ruthless, malicious, sadistic killer.
* TheNecromancer: With an intuitive understanding of most Necromancy spells, hex dragons often command powerful undead followers. Most also keep large numbers of undead minions as cannon fodder as a matter of course.



* SummonMagic: With Conjuration as the second of their "inherent schools", tome dragons are easily capable of commanding entire armies of powerful otherworldly monsters that they can summon into battle when they've a need.



The lung dragon family is unique for how all of its different breeds begin life as a simple yu lung, or carp dragon, before transforming into something new.

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The Based upon the dragons of Chinese and Japanese mythology, the lung dragon family is unique for how all of its different breeds begin life as a simple yu lung, or carp dragon, before transforming into something new.
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''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB B]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToL I to L]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesM M]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartOne Sa-Sl]], Sa-Sn]], [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesSPartTwo So-Sy]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesT T]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesUToZ U to Z]]) | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin Beholderkin]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDevils Devils]] | '''Dragons''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsGiants Giants]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers Mind Flayers]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCrossoverCreatures Crossover Creatures]] \\
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* SuperSpeed: In 3e they're among the fastest species of dragons, having a fly speed of 200ft from birth and increasing to 300ft as they age. More impressively their flight starts out with ''perfect maneuverability'', and never falls below average even for the oldest and largest members of their species. This makes them the ''de facto'' fastest dragon species for the first half of their lifecycle (they're surpassed by Yellow dragons in the second).

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* SuperSpeed: In 3e they're among the fastest species of dragons, having a fly speed of 200ft from birth and increasing to 300ft as they age. More impressively their flight starts out with ''perfect maneuverability'', and never falls below average even for the oldest and largest members of their species. This makes gives them the ''de facto'' fastest highest effective combat speed of any dragon species species, at least for the first half of their lifecycle (they're surpassed by Yellow dragons in the second).
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* SuperSpeed: In 3e they're among the fastest species of dragons, having a fly speed of 200ft from birth and increasing to 300ft as they age. More impressively their flight starts out with ''perfect maneuverability'', and never falls below average even for the oldest and largest members of their species. This makes them the ''de facto'' fastest dragon in any situation other than flying in a straight line.

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* SuperSpeed: In 3e they're among the fastest species of dragons, having a fly speed of 200ft from birth and increasing to 300ft as they age. More impressively their flight starts out with ''perfect maneuverability'', and never falls below average even for the oldest and largest members of their species. This makes them the ''de facto'' fastest dragon species for the first half of their lifecycle (they're surpassed by Yellow dragons in any situation other than flying in a straight line.the second).
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* MageSpecies: In 3e they're one of the few dragon species to have their racial spellcasting abilities from the time they're born, being surpassed in sorcerer potential only by the SquishyWizard tome dragon and PurposelyOverpowered epic dragons.


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* ResistantToMagic: In 3e they begin developing their draconic Spell Resistance from the time they're born, and later gain abilities which greatly increase their Spell Resistance against low-level spells.
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* SuperpowerLottery: As the very last monster to appear in a print issue of Dragon Magazine, it seems the design goal was simply "screw it, let's just make the strongest monster we can." All dragons have the potential to be immensely powerful, and the prior epic dragons even moreso, but the time dragon really takes it to a whole 'nother level. A wyrmling time dragon has a statline on par with a great wyrm of most other species, and a great wyrm time dragon clocks in at an insane CR of ''90'' (beating out the next-highest CR, the great wyrm prismatic dragon, by a whole twenty-four levels). And while tracking CR at that level is basically an exercise in futility, it certainly earns its spot as the strongest printed monster in the game's history; a fully-grown time dragon could reasonably solo entire ''pantheons'' without much difficulty.
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''[[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatures Creatures]]'': [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreatureTypes Creature Types]] ([[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesA A]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesB B]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesC C]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesD D]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesE E]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesF F]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesG G]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesH H]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesIToL I to L]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesM M]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesNtoQ N to Q]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesR R]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesS S]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesT T]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsCreaturesUToZ U to Z]]) | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsBeholderkin Beholderkin]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDemons Demons]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsDevils Devils]] | '''Dragons''' | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsGiants Giants]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers Mind Flayers]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsUndead Undead]] | [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsFiendsYugoloths Yugoloths]] \\

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* SuperSpeed: In 3e they're among the fastest species of dragons, having a fly speed of 200ft from birth and increasing to 300ft as they age. More impressively their flight starts out with ''perfect maneuverability'', and never falls below average even for the oldest and largest members of their species. This makes them the ''de facto'' fastest dragon in any situation other than flying in a straight line.
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[[folder:Incarnum Dragon]]
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'''Alignment:''' Any non-Neutral

Dragons with an affinity (and hunger) for incarnum, giving them extreme ethical viewpoints. They are tireless proponents of the causes they adopt, and gravitate towards Outer Planes that match their alignment.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: While the differences can be too subtle for untrained observers, an incarnum dragon's alignment can be discerned by its appearance. Good-aligned dragons have a steel-gray metallic sheen to their scales, while evil incarnum dragons have blue-gray highlights, and chaotic dragons have random shading patterns to their indigo hides.
* MageSpecies: Rather than magic, incarnum dragons have innate [[DivertingPower meldshaping ability]] that develops as they age.
* ManaDrain: Meldshapers hit by their breath weapon have to save or have their essentia drained for an hour, while incarnum dragons can also make a special "consume soulmeld" attack that unshapes a random soulmeld and gives the dragon some temporary hit points.
* NonElemental: Their breath weapon is a cone of "resonating energy" that deals nonspecified damage to creatures (but not objects).
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* EntitledToHaveYou: A platonic example. The 3.5e supplement ''Dragon Magic'' describes a set of variant abilities for particularly obsessive brass dragons - ones who kidnap people to serve as conversation partners, [[MotorMouth talk to them non-stop]] until they fall unconscious, and then ''enter their dreams'' in order to continue the conversation. At great wyrm levels they can even imprison their "guests" in an eternal dream similar to the ''sequester'' spell to prevent them from leaving. In what is either editorial oversight or a stealth punchline, creatures you communicate with via a ''dream'' spell ''don't get to talk back''.


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* YouAreWhoYouEat: The 3.5e supplement ''Dragon Magic'' details a subspecies of copper dragons who have subsisted so heavily on venomous scorpions that they are unaffected by poison ''anywhere'' in their body (rather than just ingested poisons), later gaining the ability to ''neutralize poison'' in others and use their tail as a venomous stinger a limited number of times per day.


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[[folder:Brainstealer Dragon]]
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->'''Challenge Rating:''' 4-25 (3E)\\
'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

A horror created by the partially-successful implantation of an [[Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers illithid tadpole]] into any true dragon's brain. It retains its status as a true dragon including its ability to grow StrongerWithAge, but otherwise has none of the distinguishing traits of its original species.

See Characters/DungeonsAndDragonsMindFlayers for more details.
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** Yellow dragons, in contrast, are speculated to be the ''ancestors'' of another dragon crossbreed: green dragons, the result of yellows mating with blue dragons, whose electricity attack separates chlorine gas from the yellow dragon's salt attack, resulting in green dragons' distinct poisonous breath.

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** Yellow dragons, in contrast, are speculated to be the ''ancestors'' of another dragon crossbreed: green dragons, the result of yellows mating with blue dragons, whose electricity attack breath separates chlorine gas from the yellow dragon's salt attack, breath, resulting in green dragons' distinct poisonous breath.



* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: They look much like oversized, orange alligators, and similarly like to ambush their victims from the water, enough that one dragon's presence can halt all river travel in a region. Note that despite their lack of wings, their stat block gives orange dragons a flying speed.

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* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: They look much like oversized, orange alligators, and similarly like to ambush their victims from the water, enough that one dragon's presence can halt all river travel in a region. Note that despite their lack of [[UnreliableIllustrator apparent]] wings, their stat block gives orange dragons a flying speed.



* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Their mouths are filled with oversized teeth, which "make them appear as if they are [[PerpetualSmiler smiling all the time.]] The grin [[SlasherSmile is not a friendly one.]]
* ThePigPen: Their hides are a mess, with irregular scales that don't fit together well, as well as encrusted with huge clumps of salt, some so old and discolored by the dragon's secretions that they won't dissolve in the water.

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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Their mouths are filled with oversized teeth, which "make them appear as if they are [[PerpetualSmiler smiling all the time.]] The grin [[SlasherSmile is not a friendly one.]]
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* ThePigPen: Their hides are a mess, with irregular scales that don't fit together well, as well as encrusted with huge clumps of salt, some so old and discolored by the dragon's secretions that they won't dissolve in the water.



* DigAttack: Rattelyr dragons dwell in low-ceiling burrows or cabins, and commonly ambush prey by bursting out of the sand or soil.

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* DigAttack: Rattelyr dragons dwell in low-ceiling low-ceilinged burrows or cabins, caverns, and commonly ambush prey by bursting out of the sand or soil.



* SnakesAreSinister: They boast the key features to two feared snake breeds, a cobra's hood (which flares out based on how angry the dragon is, extending fully during battles with hated foes like blue dragons) and a rattlesnake's tail.

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* SnakesAreSinister: They boast the key features to of two feared snake breeds, a cobra's hood (which flares out based on how angry the dragon is, extending fully during battles with hated foes like blue dragons) and a rattlesnake's tail.

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