History Characters / PathfinderDragons

* CounterAttack: When critically hit with a melee attack, a Diabolic dragon channels the rancour of Hell back through the enemy, overwhelming it with an infernal assault on the mind.
* HellFire: Any fire damage that a Diabolic dragon deals is imbued with the unholy power of Hell.
* YourSoulIsMine: A Diabolic dragon's hoard is mostly made up of gems filled with trapped souls and contracts damning mortals to an afterlife in Hell.

* HolyHalo: The Empyreal dragon's most noticeable feature is a golden halo above its head.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: In addition to riches, an Omen dragon hoards items of significance. Many desperate travelers journey to an omen dragon's lairs in hopes of finding the miraculous solution to their problems. Omen dragons are open to sharing as long as they're sure of the item's purpose.

* CounterAttack: When critically hit with a melee attack, a diabolic dragon channels the rancour of Hell back through the enemy, overwhelming it with an infernal assault on the mind.
* HellFire: Any fire damage that a diabolic dragon deals is imbued with the unholy power of Hell.
* YourSoulIsMine: A diabolic dragon's hoard is mostly made up of gems filled with trapped souls and contracts damning mortals to an afterlife in Hell.

* HolyHalo: The empyreal dragon's most noticeable feature is a golden halo above its head.

* CollectorOfTheStrange: In addition to riches, an omen dragon hoards items of significance. Many desperate travellers journey to an omen dragon's lairs in hopes of finding the miraculous solution to their problems. Omen dragons are open to sharing as long as they're sure of the item's purpose.

* HealingHands: Some empyreal dragons can exude a healing pulse from their halo that restores other creatures.

* SacredFlames: The empyreal dragon's breath weapon is a blast of holy fire.

[[folder:Chromatic Dragon]]

What the hell kind of Fantasy RPG doesn't have evil dragons for you to slay? The really lame kind, that's what. These dark, treasure hoarding beasts are everything that Humanoids fear Dragons are: terribly powerful, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]], [[AlwaysChaoticEvil cruel]], [[TimeAbyss long-lived]] and [[GeniusBruiser intelligent]].

* ChromaticArrangement: Reds, blues, and greens are referred to as the greater chromatics, feared and respected more than the relatively simplistic blacks and whites.
* HeelFaceTurn: Rarely, a chromatic dragon will forsake its evil ways in an event dragons refer to as a "redeeming".
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Red, unsurprisingly, is the distinctive color of the strongest variety of chromatics, and white of the weakest.
* MascotVillain: A red dragon decorates the cover of the original Core Rulebook, with a white dragon taking its place for Second Edition.

!!Black Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Hatred drives them like a barbed whip, pushing them ever forward to wallow in the toils of sadism and evil."]]

->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Vicious sociopaths, black dragons hate with a fury few other dragons bother to muster. With short tempers and cunning minds, they combine the worst parts of dragonkind into a creature that enjoys scarring bodies as much as they do shattering minds.

* AcidAttack: Their BreathWeapon is a gout of acid and older black dragons deal additional acid damage with their bite.
* AcidPool: Older specimens can create one using their breath.
* TheBeastmaster: Great wyrms can use Charm Reptiles to control all reptilian creatures in their domain, from lizards to crocodiles.
* DarkIsEvil: The cruelest of the chromatics with pitch black scales and the ability to create magical darkness.
* FisherKing: Between their habit of overhunting, their willingness to liberally douse anything around them with acid, and the fact that they stagnate water with a touch, a black dragon's swamp tends to be a terrible place to visit.
* GreenThumb: Once they're old, they get ''plant growth'' as a spell-like ability.
* HornsOfVillainy: Like most dragons they have horns, but some of them take it a step further than most by breaking their own horns and cause them to heal incorrectly into jagged angles and jutting shards, solely for the sake of looking more intimidating.
* ItAmusedMe: When a black dragons slaughters a village, tortures someone for days, or eats a baby, this is almost always their motivation.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: The sadism of a black dragon does not end with their death and most who manage to slay one find themselves beset by all manner of contingency plans.
* NoSell: Immune to acid in addition to typical draconic immunities.
* PestController: At ancient age, they get ''insect plague'' as a spell like ability.
* PoisonousPerson: Once they become adults, they gain the ability to stagnate water with a touch.
* {{Sadist}}: Black dragons tend to be highly sadistic, and take immense pleasure from capturing humanoid prisoners, imprisoning them in their lairs and subjecting them to whichever torments they can devise; they are particularly fond of inflicting disfiguring scars and injuries on their victims, especially those who are particularly beautiful.
* ScarsAreForever: The scars their acid leaves are permeant, defying most healing magic.
* SelfHarm: That practice of breaking their own horns mentioned above? Explicitly mentioned to hurt a ''lot''.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: All black dragons older than young can speak with reptiles.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: All black dragons can breathe water.
* SwampsAreEvil: These vicious, aggressive and foul-tempered dragons prefer to make their home is swamps. A joke among dracologists is that they live in swamps because no other terrain would take them, though woe be the one who repeats that joke to a black dragon.
* TortureTechnician: Of all the chromatic dragons, black dragons [[{{Sadist}} tend to be the most fond of]] ColdBloodedTorture. Various uses of their acidic breath and saliva are a recurring theme, but water torture of different sorts is also a favorite.
* ToServeMan: They prefer meals that can beg for mercy, because of course they do given the rest of their tropes.

!!Blue Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You will most likely never meet the blue dragon manipulating your lives."]]

->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

The masterminds of the chromatic dragons, controlling networks of spies, operatives, and sometimes entire countries from behind the scenes. They're driven by a need for control, both over others through their manipulations and themselves through strict personal discipline.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: They are quite a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons version. due to their [[VisualPun electric blue]] and gold coloring, and their more sleek an elegant shape.
* AffablyEvil: They certainly are the most talkative of the Chromatics, even if only for the sake of giving a HannibalLecture.
* DeadlyDustStorm: Great wyrms can create sandstorms at will, great to cover up an escape or an attack.
* EatDirtCheap: Blues can obtain a small amount of nutrition from minerals in rocks, and when particularly starved they will swim through areas of nutrient-rich sand and allow grains to filters through their teeth.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Blue dragons are responsible for more half-dragons and dragon-blooded beings than all other true dragons combined, although they often do this by magically altering other creatures rather than traditional mating.
* ManBehindTheMan: Their modus operandi. They're perfectly content ruling for centuries without their names ever being known, allowing them to pull all sorts of strings without being hindered by their ego.
* MasterOfIllusion: Fitting given their love of manipulation. Old blue dragons can create illusionary duplicates of themselves, and all their spell-like abilities they get with age are from the illusion school.
* MeatVersusVeggies: Firmly on the side of meat. They refuse to eat plants under any circumstances, considering it the food of cattle and lesser beasts.
* PragmaticVillainy: They're all too happy to simply wait for their antagonists to die of old age, taking the minimum of effort to keep such pests from disrupting their plans in the meantime.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Under ''no'' circumstances does a blue dragon simply set out to do things themselves after being failed by their underlings. Even those who actively hunt them down don't warrant personal attention.
* SandWorm: They habitually swim through the desert sands, both to avoid notice and for relaxation. Their sleek, streamlined shapes and smooth, tightly layered scales help them move through this dense medium. In turn, these sand swims ensure that the profusions of hornlets, bony growths, spurs and ridges that most dragons grow as they age don't break up the profiles of the blues, as such outgrowths are quickly ground away by friction with the sand.
* ShockAndAwe: Their BreathWeapon is a line of electricity, and ancient and powerful blue dragons can use it to generate full-out storms. In addition, adult and older blue dragons are surrounded by an electrified aura that damages those close to them.
* TheSocialExpert: A requisite when one manages hundreds of operatives over the course of centuries.
* TheSpymaster: Blues often control extensive webs of contacts, spies and agents that they use to keep tabs on and direct the affairs of other species' cultures without revealing themselves to either the humanoids they manipulate or to other dragons.
* TheStoic: Taciturn and joyless, even by the standards of chromatics.
* ThirstyDesert: Their typical habitat. In addition, they can dry out liquids within a certain range, including potions.
* {{Troll}}: They very much prefer [[ManipulativeBastard mind-games and manipulation]] to brute force.
* TunnelKing: Blues are capable of burrowing through sand and soil, an ability which shapes their lairs, plans, and general behavior.
* VillainousVirtues: Blues strive for discipline and self-control in all situations, though their lack of instinctual predilection it means they have a tendency to snap from the tension every few centuries. They're also suprisingly humble, happy to go without recognition from their unwitting subjects their whole lives.
* VoiceChangeling: Almost from birth, blue dragons can perfectly mimic voices and sounds.

!!Green Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Greens are obsessed with perfecting their minds and bodies, and exceed even the learned bronzes in scholarship and study."]]
->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Green dragons seek mastery over everything, including their own minds and base desires. This makes them the most intellectual chromatics, focused on improving their minds through research and scholarship. But despite their more reasonable temperaments, they are still dragons and remain as capable of cruelty as the most vicious red if properly motivated.

* AcidAttack: In 1st Edition, their BreathWeapon is a cone of acidic vapor and ancient green dragons can create clouds of corrosive gas. 2nd Edition swaps this out for poison instead.
* TheArchmage: Those who specialize in magical research will often uncover powerful magic secrets that augment their already potent arcane power. That said, a centuries old green may fall behind a decades old human wizards in pure spell power, as their research tends to lack in immediate practical application.
* BadassBookworm: Greens may be the most intellectual of dragons, but they are still ''dragons''. On top of that, their drive for self improvement also extends to their bodies and most perform rigorous exercise every day to stay in peak physical condition.
* BerserkButton: Misattributing a green's work, or worse, taking credit for it. This goes double if the culprit is a lesser species like a human, and even greens who've never heard of the slighted dragon will take great offense on their behalf.
* ChallengeSeeker: As a lack of challenge can mean stagnation, greens tend to seek out difficult tasks. These can range from frustrating social interactions to semi-dangerous fights, so long as it's not something that can be bested easily.
* ChameleonCamouflage: Old and older green dragons can hide in any natural terrain just by standing still, even without cover or concealment. The fact that this works equally well in deserts and caves despite the vast difference in coloration indicates they can actually change color biologically, as the ability is non-magical in nature.
* DeadlyGas: Their breath weapons consist of a cloud of deadly gas -- acidic in 1st edition, toxic in 2nd.
* EnchantedForest: Their preferred habitat are vast, primal forests where the trees tower over even their own sizable forms, and actively cultivate their home woodlands to turn them into this.
* FisherKing: A forest in a green dragon's territory tends to be in better condition that nearby woodlands, as they view the condition of their domain as a reflection of themselves.
* FriendlyEnemy: So long as there isn't a specific reason for enmity, they get along quite well with bronzes due to their respect for fellow scholars.
* GeniusBruiser: No less physically dangerous than any other dragon, greens are naturally gifted at mathematics. They typically leverage this gift towards magical theory, astronomy, planar research, and other advanced subjects.
* GreenThumb: Green dragons develop a number of ways to manipulate plant life as they mature, such as the ability to hasten plant growth or to animate and control trees.
* HeelFaceTurn: More greens abandon their evil ways than all other chromatics combined. That said, few actually go all the way to Good, settling instead into some strain of Neutral.
* HornsOfVillainy: A large rhino-like horn on their nose. This actually becomes a problem as they grow older and the horn begins to create a blind spot, so many carve or otherwise shape it to be less obtrusive.
* KissKissSlap: Their competitive natures mean most reproductive trysts end in violence when one points out a flaw in the other.
* MookMaker: They can temporarily animate trees as treants to serve as minions.
* NobleDemon: Compared to other evil dragons, green dragons at least have a sense of [[VillainousVirtues honor]], and they are noted to be more open to diplomacy than the other kinds of chromatic dragons. They're also the most likely chromatics to abandon evil in favor of neutrality or even benevolence, although it's still a small portion of their numbers that ever does that.
* PoisonousPerson: In 2nd Edition, their breath weapon is a cloud of toxic gas that poisons anyone standing within it.
* {{Pride}}: They will grant others access to their research not out of any sense of altruism, but to make sure they get credit and admirations for their discoveries.
* StealthExpert: Besides their ability to blend in with any terrain, they leave no tracks or other signs of their passage unless they so choose to.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Like black dragons, greens can breathe underwater.
* VillainousVirtues: They're moderate and self-controlled to an extend that rivals gold dragons, they focus on self-improvement both physically and mentally, and they actually cultivate and grow the forests in their territories.
* WeHaveReserves: Not in combat, but greens will happily spend the lives of many hundreds of lesser lifeforms for their research.
* WhenTreesAttack: Green dragons can animate trees to aid them in battle.

!!Red Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Be assured that no known language contains a singular word to describe the awesome and terrible power of red dragons."]]
->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

When you think dragon, this is probably what pops into your head. Incredibly powerful, ruling over their domains with an iron fist, and all too willing to reduce the merest potential of a problem to ash.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: There is exactly one recorded instance in all of history of a red dragon that wasn't evil. The rest are as vile and monstrous as they come.
* EvilCounterpart: Traditionally to gold dragons. Both are immensely powerful paragons of dragonhood and closely tied to the element of fire, as well as the strongest representatives of their respective septs. However, reds are hateful and sadistic where the golds are benevolent and peaceful, violently destructive where the golds are mentoring, and proud to be feared and loathed where the golds are respected and admired. They're also both incredibly proud and arrogant, with the golds' tendency for casual condescension being mirrored in the reds' delusions of godhood, and gold dragons are the only creatures alive that the reds treat with something approaching respect.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The fires that burn within the bodies of red dragons allow them to process and digest almost anything they can fit down their gullets -- there are very few types of animals, plants or mineral substances that a red cannot, in a pinch, digest and gain nutrition from.
* FireIsRed: Red dragons are the only chromatic dragons with access to fire as a breath weapon or to fire-related abilities, and these abilities are more extensive and developed than what metallic dragons have.
* AGodAmI: Their ego makes it nigh impossible for them to consider anything greater than themselves, so they have a tendency to declare themselves as gods.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: It's only natural that the red dragons are the strongest, most magically adept and most widely-feared of all dragons.
* PlayingWithFire: Red dragons have the most traditional dragon BreathWeapon of all, a jet of fire. In addition, adult red dragons gain an aura of intense heat surrounding their bodies that causes damage to anyone standing near them, as well as the ability to manipulate fire and flames.
* {{Pride}}: Reds are extremely proud beings: they are some of the strongest and most powerful entities they are likely to ever encounter, and they know this very well. As a result, old and powerful reds are some of the most prideful and arrogant beings alive, viewing themselves as so close to godhood that most don't even bother with religion out of deep-seated dislike for admitting that there's anything mightier than themselves.

!!White Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"White dragons are stupid, weak, savage, and pathetic -- [[OvershadowedByAwesome as dragons go]]."]]
->'''Level:''' 2-18
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

The least of the chromatics, white dragons are nonetheless masters of their domains due to making their homes far in the arctic where no other true dragons go. In temperate climes they lair in high, cold mountains, which can often bring them into conflict with the red and silver dragons that also live there.

* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon is a gale of freezing air, and they have access to a number of ice-based abilities, such as the power to create localized blizzards or to shape and control ice and snow.
* ButtMonkey: Their stupidity and relative weakness makes them a laughingstock among other dragons. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not that they're not capable of casually wiping a Humanoid settlement off of the map]].
* DumbMuscle: White Dragons are some of the only true dragons that are, across the board, ''dumber'' than most humanoids.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: White dragons are not, on an objective scale, weak creatures. They are still dragons, after all, and older whites are in many cases the among the most powerful and dominant creatures in their icy arctic homes. They simply have the poor fortune to be in the same family as red, blue and green dragons and of sharing their preferred habitats with both the more powerful silver dragons and the more numerous and organized frost giants. While mighty by humanoid standards, whites rarely shine against either their relatives or their neighbors.

[[folder:Metallic Dragon]]
The wise, [[AlwaysLawfulGood good-aligned]] [[GoodCounterpart counterparts]] of the chromatic dragons, older metallic dragons are some of the most world-shakingly powerful beings on Golarion. [[GoodIsImpotent Now if only they would do something...]]

* BreathWeapon: Unlike chromatic dragons, metallics get two breath weapons: one that deals direct damage and one that induces a status effect.
* FaceHeelTurn: Metallic dragons will sometime fall to corruption and evil, an event dragons call a "tarnishing".
* GoldSilverCopperStandard: Gold dragons are the most powerful and respected of the metallics, followed by silver dragons, then bronze dragons, and finally brass and copper dragons. They also follow this as an informal social system of sorts, with gold dragons generally being the most influential and respected among the metallic breeds.

!!Gold Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"In a world ever in flux, it is the unmistakably powerful golds who seem to remain unchanging fixtures within it."]]
->'''Level:''' 7-23
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

The metallics ''par excellence'', gold dragons are creatures of immense power and boundless paternalistic benevolence, keeping the company of celestial beings and seeing the rest of mortalkind as children in need of guidance.

* AlwaysLawfulGood: Gold dragons are, among all the metallic dragons, the least likely to ever tarnish away from empathy and benevolence. In fact, such an event only ever happened once in recorded history, and the dwarves who eventually found the tarnished gold's body even thought they had discovered a new breed of chromatic "yellow dragons" rather than a fallen metallic.
* BefriendingTheEnemy: Their ageless wisdom can allow them to reason with their enemies and turn them into allies or abandon their evil ways. Learning to use this trope wisely becomes a major theme in ''[[VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous Pathfinder: Wrath of The Righteous]]'' during the Golden Dragon Mythic Path.
* GoodIsNotDumb: They're typically clever enough to know when to know when someone is too far gone to be redeemed and needs to be taken down.
* KnockoutGas: Older dragons can use these instead of their fire breath to incapacitate their enemies.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Unlike other metallics, they are borderline immune to falling to madness. They can even lead other dragons who are in the process of falling back to lucidity.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Their main shtick is hunting down evil, no matter where it lurks. Unfortunately, this makes them the most likely of the metallic dragons to go [[TautologicalTemplar off the deep end]].
* LightEmUp: Ancient and older gold dragons can cast ''sunburst'' as spell-like ability at will.
* LightIsGood: The golds are the most noble dragons and the ones most associated with light.
* MyGrandsonMyself: Gold dragons often take on humanoid guises to blend into other species' societies; however, since most dragons will outlive even the most long-lived elves by millennia, they generally need to at least put on a pretense of aging. While golds will generally fake their own deaths once their "lifetimes" are up, ones particularly attached to their guises will pose as their own children, grandchildren and so on. While this tends to work fine at first, their neighbors tend to catch wise to there being something fishy going on after a few generations of single people suddenly producing grown children out of nowhere.
* TheParagon: They're always ready to stand against great evil, but one of their favorite passtimes is inspiring others to find the courge and strength to battle evil themselves.
* PlayingWithFire: Their BreathWeapon is a cone of fire, and as they age they develop of fiery aura as well.
* TheRedeemer: If a villain has a shred of humanity left in their heart, a gold dragon will try its best to bring it out and redeem them.

!!Silver Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Some humans mistakenly call silver dragons the paladins of dragons, but doing so ignores the very fact that silver dragons existed long before paladins and follow codes more limiting than humans can fathom."]]
->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

Silver dragons are knights and crusaders, devoting their lives to fighting evil and championing goodness. Their immensely strict codes of ethics help ensure that they live up to the lofty ideals they hold... but silver dragons fall more often than any other metallic dragons, and when they fall they fall ''hard''.

* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon is a cone of freezing air, and they gain a damaging aura of cold as they age.
* CloserToEarth: They have probably the best understanding of the Humanoid races they protect out of all the metallic dragons.
* TheFettered: Silver dragons live, largely voluntarily, under incredibly strict codes and traditions governing almost every facet of their lives, and only allow themselves to undertake important actions -- crusading, warring, meditating, praying, hunting, mating -- for very specific reasons, at very specific times and/or in very specific, ritualized manners. They even used to have strictures governing how and when they were allowed to ''defecate'', until a scandalized copper dragon petitioned a council of golds to have these lifted.
* FaceHeelTurn: Silvers are more prone to tarnishing and slipping into uncaring neutrality or outright evil than any other type of metallic dragon -- although it's still a rare thing, in absolute terms -- which some theorize is linked to their obsession with imposing strict rules and codes of conduct upon themselves.
* TheParalyzer: Their ''other'' BreathWeapon allows them to be this, paralyzing anyone who fails their saving throw.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Technically, most dragons can Polymorph. That said, silver dragons are the only ones that respect other races enough to do it on any kind of regular basis.
* SolidClouds: They can walk on clouds as if they were solid ground.

!!Brass Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"A brass dragon knows everyone worth knowing in the nearby cities, and many not worth knowing."]]
->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Brass dragons are intensely social creatures, and greatly enjoy the company of other dragons and of humanoids alike. They frequently visit human cities, rarely bothering to conceal their true forms when doing so, and form enormous social networks around themselves that they use to keep tabs on the communities they are part of.

* DishingOutDirt: Brass dragons have the ability to control sand and summon sandstorms.
* ForcedSleep: Their secondary breath weapon is a cloud of sleep-inducing gas.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: The natural gaiety and light-heartedness of brasses often leads to them being perceived as foolish and scatterbrained simpletons, an image they deliberately cultivate to lead their opponents to underestimate them.
%%* ThePhilosopher
* PlayingWithFire: They breathe fire, and gain a fiery damaging aura as they age.
* SummonMagic: Brass dragon great wyrms can summon a noble djinni once a day.

!!Copper Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"Those with a mission of mercy to perform, a tyrant to overthrow, or a wrong to right cannot hope to find a more enthusiastic supporter than a copper dragon -- [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny for a time]]."]]
->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Mercurial, emotional and intensely freedom-loving, copper dragons are the most inconstant members of the metallic sept -- while their sense of morality is as strong as any metallic's, their attention span is quite low and often prevents them from fully devoting themselves to whichever case they've impulsively sworn themselves to. They're also quite emotional, and the most likely metallics to rampage.

* AcidAttack: Their BreathWeapon is a line of acid.
* BrownNote: A great wyrm copper dragon can tell a joke so funny you die laughing if you hear it.
* TheGadfly: They enjoy a good joke and are generally quite quick to politely point out flaws in plans. They also enjoy annoying and frustrating enemies when fighting, and have a number of abilities themed around forcing others to laugh.
* ThePrankster: Of the non-malicious sort, considering they are good aligned.
* WeakButSkilled: They are the weakest of the metallic dragons by a fair margin, but tend to also be quite quick-witted and creative, even by Dragon [[SuperIntelligence standards]].

!!Bronze Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You can trust a bronze dragon with your secrets, your gold, your dearest treasures. A bronze would rather die than betray that trust"]]
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Bronze dragons are hermits among the metallics, rarely seeking to involve themselves in the affairs of the wider world and preferring to spend their time reading and researching in their lairs. They also frequently act as guardians of precious or dangerous objects, as they have few objections to sitting in one place for years at a time to stand watch over their charge.

* TheHermit: Bronze dragons are the least sociable of the metallics and prefer to spend their time alone with their books and research, often spending years or decades at a time holed up in seclusion before being forced to return to society to acquire new reading material.
* MakingASplash: Bronze dragons are the most aquatic of the standard dragons, and gain a number of water-related abilities as they age, culminating in the ability to create vortexes and tidal waves.
* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Solitary, even by dragon standards, but firmly good nonetheless.
* ShockAndAwe: Their BreathWeapon is a line of electricity. In addition, old bronze dragons are surrounded by an electrified aura that damages those close to them.

[[folder:Primal Dragon]]
A subset of true dragons that inhabit the Elemental Planes, the primal dragons base their appearance and powers off of the four classical elements and shadow.

* ElementalDragon: In addition to being dragons, cloud, brine, crystal and magma dragons are also elemental beings of air, water, earth, and fire. In 2nd Edition, primal dragons (except the umbral dragon) are classified as both elementals and dragons.
* ElementalPlane: Each primal dragon species hails from one of the elemental planes, except for umbral dragons, which inhabit the Netherworld and the Universe.

!!Brine Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

The native dragons of the Plane of Water, the brine dragons rule vast tracts of the elemental sea in the name of their ruler, the elemental lord Kelizandri, and wage a bitter war for supremacy against the krakens with whom they share the plane's depths.
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* AcidAttack: Their BreathWeapon is a line of acid.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Some brine dragons tire of the tyranny and constant infighting of Kelzandrika, and choose to distance themselves from their kin and birth culture and the Brackish Empire's constant wars. Kelizandri takes poorly to such desertion, though, and such wayward brine dragons often need to live in hiding as a result.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Great Beyond: A Guide to the Multiverse'', a supplement written before ''Pathfinder'' switched from ''D&D'' 3.5 to its first official edition, describes them as brine ''drakes'' and does not consider them part of a sept of true dragons.
* TheEmpire: The brine dragons of the Elemental Plane of Water inhabit a system of realms collectively known as Kelizandrika, the Brackish Empire, where they rule as tyrants over populations of aquatic humanoids forced into servitude. In turn, the dragons serve the mightiest of the kind, the NeutralEvil power Kelizandri the Brackish Emperor, and have been steadily expanding his rule through the Plane of Water for millennia.
* TheExile: Brine dragons who depart the Brackish Empire can never go home again, for fear of Kelizandri's wrath, and as such have to live the rest of their lives in exile, either in hiding somewhere remote or perpetually on the move.
* FantasticRacism: Typically for dragons, brine dragons see themselves as above other intelligent races, something they tend to express by taking over and ruling large communities of "lesser beings".
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Brine dragons are fiercely protective of the communities they claim as theirs, but care more about their overall health and strength than about the well-being of any specific individual and are generally quite willing to sacrifice the well-being of a few people for the benefit of the greater whole.
* MakingASplash: As creatures of elemental water, brine dragons have a great deal of direct control their native element and associated concepts, being able to manipulate water in a number of ways or to speak with fish.
* TurtleIsland: Not actually turtles, but close enough in other regards -- they sometimes reach such tremendous sizes that, when forced to take up nomadic lives for whatever reason, they often carry their entire kingdoms on their backs.

!!Cloud Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 5-21

Wanderers and explorers native to the Plane of Air, cloud dragons spend their lives on the move in search of whatever may be over the next horizon, only returning to their hidden and well-defended lairs to deposit particularly valuable treasures recovered during their journeys.

* BlowYouAway: They can create and control wind and mist through their connection to their element.
* BoldExplorer: Cloud dragons are avid explorers, spending large parts of their lives journeying in search of new lands, new sights, new people and new treasures.
* ElementalPersonalities: Cloud dragons, the primal dragons of elemental air, are restless wanderers at heart, and spend their long lives wandering across the planes in search of new wonders and chasing their latest fancies.
* ElementalShapeshifting: They can turn into wisps of cloud and back.
* {{Retcon}}: In ''The Great Beyond: A Guide to the Multiverse'', a supplement written before ''Pathfinder'' switched from ''D&D'' 3.5 to its first official edition, the Plane of Air is described as having no native dragons and only being home to immigrant white and silver dragons. After the shift to ''Pathfinder'' 1st Edition, primal dragons became a thing and the cloud dragons of the Plane of Air were retconned into existence, with the justification that Golarion-based scholars simply didn't know of them at first and wrongly assumed that the whites and silvers were the only dragons in the plane.
* ShockAndAwe: Their main breath weapon is a line of electricity.

!!Crystal Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 2-18
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

The dragons of the Plane of Earth, the crystal dragons rule a complex system of scattered and fractious fiefdoms that, while individually small and vulnerable, are collectively capable of matching the Peerless Empire of the shaitans in terms of land, power and influence.

* BeneathTheEarth: When found in the Universe, crystal dragons prefer to inhabit complex underground cave systems, often going for decades or centuries without ever setting foot on the surface.
* CrystallineCreature: Their scales resemble a full-body coating of gems.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''The Great Beyond: A Guide to the Multiverse'', a supplement written before ''Pathfinder'' switched from ''D&D'' 3.5 to its first official edition, describes them as crystal ''drakes'' and does not consider them part of a sept of true dragons, in addition to giving their alignment as LawfulNeutral.%%In-universe
* GemstoneAssault: Their breath weapon is a flurry of razor-sharp crystals.
* TheGoodKing: Crystal dragons habitually form personal empires and fiefdoms where they rule over other natives of their plane such as dwarves, mephits, oreads and shaitan genies. Unlike the brine dragons, they are noted to be actually good rulers -- they are fiercely protective of their subjects, handle fights and disputes personally without expecting them to get involved and provide a refuge from the slavery common in the powerful shaitan empire that rules over large parts of the Plane of Earth.
* {{Narcissist}}: Crystal dragons are incredibly vain about their appearances, and enjoy filling their lairs with mirrors and effective crystals in which to regard themselves. Gifts of fine mirrors are good ways to curry their favor; insults, intended or not, about their appearances are a good way to earn their wrath.
* NeatFreak: Crystal dragons lead very orderly lives, and this extends to their surroundings: they keep their lairs and hoards fastidiously ordered and organized, disdaining the untidy sprawl of treasure that most other dragons favor.
* SuperScream: Their breath weapon is a cone of sonic force.
* TakenForGranite: When a crystal dragon bites another creature, it can leave crystals embedded in its flesh that will gradually transform their flesh into more of themselves, eventually turning the victim into a crystal statue.

!!Magma Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

The dragons of elemental fire, magma dragons are volatile and unpredictable creatures who rarely form any sort of constructive societies, often developing deep rivalries with one another before even leaving their nests. However, individual specimens have been known to amass complex networks of minions and at least one mostly organized society of magma dragons inhabits the Emberen Recess within the Plane of Fire.

* ElementalPersonalities: Magma dragons, the primal dragons of elemental fire, are impulsive, emotional beings with a species-wide case of HairTriggerTemper.
* HairTriggerTemper: They're very temperamental and prone to violent mood swings. Even other dragons consider them volatile, unbalanced and borderline insane.
* LavaMagicIsFire: Magma dragons are the primal representatives of elemental fire, which they phyiscally embody specficially by resembling and manipulating molten rock.
* MagmaMan: Their skin resembles a thin black crust of rock, with rivulets of lava flowing from where it fissures. They can also breathe a jet of lava as a breath weapon to replace their original fire, which is in turn replaced later on by a glob of lava that solidifies on contact with the target.
* PlayingWithFire: They can cast ''burning hands'', ''wall of fire'' and ''produce flame'' at will.
* VolcanicVeins: Literally. A magma dragon's stony skin is crisscrossed by glowing cracks and fissures dripping with molten lava.

!!Umbral Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 6-22

->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Normally native to the Netherworld, umbral dragons often settle down on Golarion proper, seeking out places that remind them of home, such as the dark hearts of forests, foreboding mountains, gloomy swamps and the darkest depths of the earth.

* BeneathTheEarth: There's a fairly sizable population of them inhabiting the Vaults of Orv, the deepest level of the Darklands, where they rule over the vault known as the Midnight Mountains.
* CastingAShadow: They can breathe a cone of shadows to blind foes, create areas of magic darkness, hide themselves within shadows and travel through them, and raise those they kill as {{Living Shadow}}s under their control.
* DirtyCoward: Umbral dragons have no interest in anything resembling a fair fight. They happily prey on those weaker than themselves, but as soon as a foe actually manages to strike back at them they flee back into the shadows to lick their wounds and plot ways to get revenge without actually having to risk themselves.
* ElementalPersonalities: Umbral dragons, the primal dragons of shadow, are scheming, secretive and ambitious, hiding themselves in desolate lairs while their nurse long-running plots for influence and power.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Unlike many other evil creatures that feed primarily off of humanoids, the umbral dragons' favorite prey are the undead. This is sometimes exploited by humanoids plagued by undead, such as a group of priests of the death goddess Pharasma who bribed a young umbral dragon into moving to the Mana Wastes to hunt the local specters and ghosts.
* LifeDrain: They can cast ''vampiric touch'' at will to siphon off other creatures' lifeforce.
* TouchTheIntangible: They can interact with spectral undead as if they were corporeal creatures -- a useful trait for them, as ghosts, specters, shadows and the like are their favorite source of food.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Imperial Dragon]]
Serpentine, antlered and wingless dragons, the imperial dragons are the dominant draconic species in the continent of Tian Xia. They are much more deeply tied to their humanoid neighbors than western dragon breeds are, and often closely involved in the affairs of their kingdoms. In second edition, they're given closer ties to the elements in a pattern matching the traditional Chinese five-element model.

* ElementalDragon: In Second Edition, each imperial dragon species is aligned with one classical Chinese element -- fire, water, earth, metal or wood.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: An imperial dragon finds its powers hindered by an opposing element while becoming stronger if targeted with a specific third.
* FarEast: They are the native dragons of Tian Xia, ''Pathfinder'''s stand-in for eastern Asia, and are themselves inspired by the dragons from Chinese, Japanese and other East Asian mythologies.
* FeedItWithFire: In Second Edition, targeting an imperial dragon with a weapon or attack based off of the element that they resist will only make them stronger.
* {{Flight}}: Like all dragons, imperial dragons can fly with ease, and are skilled and graceful fliers as well. However, as the only dragons with no wings, their flight is entirely supernatural in nature.
* HornAttack: All imperial dragons can use their antlers for goring attacks.

!!Forest Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Also called dilungs, these vile, aggressive dragons inhabit deep forests. They hate everything to do with progress and civilization, preferring to live deep in the wild alongside animals and monsters.

* DishingOutDirt: In First Edition, their breath weapon is a hail of rocky shards, and they gain a number of earth-based abilities and magical tricks as they age, such as petrifying foes and summoning earth elementals.
* EnchantedForest: They inhabit deep, primal forests throughout Tian Xia, and gain a number of abilities centered on increasing their ability to move in thickly forested areas.
* FeedItWithFire: In Second Edition, if a forest dragon is struck by a water-based attack it takes no damage and instead gains temporary hit points.
* GreenThumb: In Second Edition, forest dragons are closely tied to plant life and possess a number of abilities pertaining to it, such as turning themselves into trees and magically controlling and speaking with plants.
* PlantPerson: In Second Edition, as forest dragons age, their skin hardens into bark, their hair grows mossy, and leaves sprout from their horns.
* {{Retcon}}: In First Edition, they have the Earth subtype and mostly earth-themed spells and abilities. Second Edition changes them to be closely tied to plant life instead, exchanging earth-shaping magic for plant-based spells and their rocky BreathWeapon for a swarm of insects.
* SummonMagic: In First Edition, particularly old forest dragons can summon greater earth elementals when they use their breath weapon.
* TakenForGranite: In First Edition, great wyrm forest dragons have the ability to petrify any creature that their BreathWeapon reduces to 0 or less hit points, instantly killing them.
* {{Transflormation}}: In Second Edition, adult and older forest dragons can turn themselves into trees at will. In addition, when ancient and older ones kill another creature with a bite attack, their target is turned into living wood. The resulting statue can turn into a tree over time, but cannot be used to resurrect its former self.

!!Sea Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Also known as jiaolungs, these are benevolent, blue-scaled dragons who live in the oceans. They are generally benevolent beings and revered as protectors by people who make their living on the sea, but can be as fickle and unpredictable as the ocean.

* ElementalShapeshifting: When targeted by a physical or fire-based attack, sea dragons turn into water for a split second to increase their defense against it.
* MakingASplash: They can control water to an extensive degree, to the point of being able to create full-sized tidal waves. They can also launch a jet of water instead of their usual breath weapon, a cone of scalding steam, and can move with supernatural ease as long as they're in the water.
* MaterialMimicry: In Second Edition, striking a sea dragon with a weapon made out of metal or with a spell that uses metal will turn many of the dragon's scales into metal of the kind used, increasing their armor for the duration of the fight.
* SeaMonster: As if the name "sea dragon" hasn't made it clear, these giant reptilian creatures live in the oceans.
* TeleportationWithDrawbacks: As long as they're immersed in a body of water, they can disappear from it and reappear in any other one of their choosing.

!!Sky Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Sky dragons, or tienlungs, are wise and noble creatures who spend much of their long lives high in the sky. They are unusual among dragons for their great religious piety, and are often sought out by hopefuls seeking wisdom and guidance.

* BlowYouAway: Although this is less emphasized that their connection with electricity, they are creatures of the air, and can manipulate air and wind as they please.
* PiousMonster: Sky dragons maintain a strong religious tradition and a sincere reverence for the gods, something unique among the generally irreligious dragons.
* ShockAndAwe: Their breath weapon is a cone (in First Edition) or a ball (in Second) of lightning, which when used by a particularly old dragon can affect even creatures resistant or immune to electricity. They also gain a number of spells and abilities focusing on electricity, such as the ability to summon thunderstorms or throw thunderbolts.
* WeatherManipulation: Old or older sky dragons can summon thunderstorms. They can also create fog, or summon various kinds of inclement weather such as sleet.

!!Sovereign Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 7-23
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

These magnificent golden dragons, known in Tian Xia as lungwangs, are charged by the gods with safeguarding harmony and peace; originally advisors and kingmakers, they have over time become rulers themselves. This status is somewhat contentious among the other imperial dragons, who suspect them to have sacrificed their connection to the elements in exchange for forbidden magic due their unique lack of vulnerability or strength towards elemental attacks.

* ArmoredDragons: Sovereign dragons always go clad in their distinctive golden armor. Humanoids find this very impressive, but other dragons think it's kind of ridiculous.
* DealWithTheDevil: While there's no definitive proof either way, other imperial dragons suspect that the lungwangs made a bargain with something in the past where they sacrificed their elemental affinities in exchange for forbidden arcane magic.
* DishingOutDirt: They have some magical control over stone, which they can shape and mold to their liking.
* InstantArmor: Old sovereign dragons can cover themselves in their armor, and also dismiss said armor, at will.
* SuperScream: Their breath weapon is a cone of sonic force charged with psychic energy.

!!Underworld Dragon
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->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Futsanglungs, as they are also known, are cruel, tyrannical dragons who live deep underground. They are the living embodiments of the burning forces beneath the earth and skilled alchemists, and spend their long lives gathering treasure and rare reagents from the bowels of the earth.

* BeneathTheEarth: They prefer to make their lairs deep underground, carving extensive complexes of mazelike tunnels deep beneath the world.
* FantasyMetals: Their claws are made of solid adamantine.
* FastTunnelling: Their Underworld Burrower ability allows them to dig extremely fast, gaining speed the older they get.
* FeedItWithFire: Striking an underworld dragon with a wooden weapon or a plant-based spell simply stokes their internal fires, recharging their breath weapon and strengthening their fiery bites.
* MagmaMan: They can cause volcanic eruptions by digging straight down into the earth, then bursting back to the surface while spouting lava instead of their usual breath weapon.
* PlayingWithFire: Their breath weapon is a gout of fire and flames hot enough to melt solid rock. In addition, their bites are laced with fire, they constantly create auras of sweltering heat around themselves, and they can naturally cast fire-based spells such as ''wall of fire'' and ''continual flame''.

[[folder:Outer Dragon]]
Dwelling on alien planets or in the depths of space, outer dragons are mostly neutral and possess strange abilities. Unlike the Frightful Presence common to other true dragons, they have an [[BrownNote Alien Presence]] that affects enemies in different ways depending on species, and are capable of interstellar flight.

!!Lunar Dragon
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* AttackReflector: They have the ability to bounce ranged touch attacks right back at their attacker.
* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon. It's so cold it can partially affect creatures that are immune to cold. They are also immune to cold temperatures, but vulnerable to fire and heat.
* SilverHasMysticPowers: Their claws count as silver due to their lunar connection.
* StupidityInducingAttack: Their Alien Presence affects opponents with Touch of Idiocy or Feeblemind, temporarily reducing those weak enough to drooling idiots by mere proximity, and their breath can also cause confusion.

!!Solar Dragon
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal
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* GreenThumb: They can both blight and animate and control plants, stemming from their association with the life-giving light of suns.
* HealingHands: They can channel positive energy to heal those around them.
* LightEmUp: Their Alien Presence blinds people, and they can transform into pure light for mobility.
* PlayingWithFire: Their BreathWeapon. It's so hot it can partially affect creatures that are immune to fire. They are also immune to heat, but vulnerable to ice and cold.
* PowerOfTheSun: Obviously. This grants them abilities relating to fire, light, and life.

!!Time Dragon
->'''Level:''' 7-23
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* {{Immortality}}: They never die of old age, though their bodies appear to be in a constant state of flux -- parts of them young and others ancient.
* ShockAndAwe: Their BreathWeapon. None of their spells or other abilities have a lightning connection though.
* TimeMaster: Almost all of their abilities are based on this. They can reverse time fractionally, their Alien Presence slows enemies that get too close, and their breath weapon can move temporally displace enemies forward in time. The oldest even have the ability to time travel up to three times to any point in history, an incredibly rare power in Pathfinder.
* TimePolice: They guard against those who would disrupt the temporal order.
* TooAwesomeToUse: As mentioned above, great wyrm time dragons can time travel to any point in time. As they can only use said ability three times in ''their entire life'', they are ''very'' reluctant to use it (it's also unclear if going to another time and returning to the present counts as two uses or one).

!!Void Dragon
->'''Level:''' 5-21

->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* EldritchAbomination: They've been tainted by encountering these in the depths of space.
* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon is a cone of ice, and they're immune to cold.
* MindRape: They inflict this on their enemies, and have suffered it themselves.
* PowerOfTheVoid: Naturally. Their bites can reduce enemies to ashes, and their abilities are a blend of madness and negative energy.
* SupernaturalSuffocation: Their breath weapon drives the air out of its targets' lungs and causes them to suffocate for several rounds.
* TokenEvilTeammate: The only of the outer dragons with an evil alignment -- not really their fault, and some still resist.

!!Vortex Dragon
->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* NoSell: They become immune to any effect that blocks teleportation.
* {{Teleportation}}: Their specialty. They can move their bite through rips in space to strike things they shouldn't be able to reach. Many of their spells relate to this, culminating in the ability to teleport between planets.
* VacuumMouth: Their breath weapon can be used to vacuum up an enemy to swallow them easily.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Esoteric Dragon]]
* PsychicPowers: All esoteric dragons can use various types of psionic powers.

!!Astral Dragon
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* SeeTheInvisible: Astral dragons have ''see invisibility'' as a constant spell-like ability.

!!Dream Dragon
->'''Level:''' 6-22
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

* DreamWalker: A dream dragon can enter a sleeping creature's dream with its physical body, and can tell what a sleeping creature is dreaming of by looking at them.
* DreamWeaver: They can send messages into other beings' sleeping minds and create shared dreams for communication.
* ForcedSleep: Foes hit by a dream dragon's breath attack and fail a saving throw will be put to sleep, and dream dragons are themselves immune to being forced into sleeping or dreaming by external magic.
* ShockAndAwe: They get the ability to spit lighting bolts as a breath weapon.

!!Etheric Dragon
->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

* OneHitKill: If an ancient or older etheric dragon chooses to activate its grave breath, victims that fail their saving throw will be reduced to -1 hit points.
* SoulEating: Creatures devoured by an etheric dragon have their souls eaten alongside themselves and cannot be brought back without at least a mythic wish.

!!Nightmare Dragon
->'''Level:''' 2-18

->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

* AcidAttack: Their breath weapon is a cone of acid.
* NightmareWeaver: A great wyrm nightmare dragon can utterly control the dreamscape of another creature, shaping them to suit its wishes, and usually does so to foster the worst nightmares it can devise. It can also cast the regular ''nightmare'' spell as an innate ability.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: The mere presence of a nightmare dragon is able to induce panic.
* YourMindMakesItReal: If a creature's lucid body dies under the control of a nightmare dragon, then its material body also dies.

!!Occult Dragon
->'''Level:''' 2-18
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

* BarrierWarrior: An occult dragon has an aura that protects against law, chaos or evil.
* ItemCaddy: Occult dragons can emulate any class or spellcasting ability when using magic items, or appraise any items by sight.
* NoSell: Great wyrm occult dragons can choose to be immune to all divination.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Planar Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' 8-24
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Planar dragons are the result of true dragons intermingling with the energies of the Outer Planes, eventually becoming entirely new species. They are born in their native planes and return there in old age, but spend their adult lives in the Universe where they shape and rule territories so as to resemble their native homes.
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* HostileTerraforming: Their main schtick -- planar dragons only spend their early youths and extreme old age in the Outer Planes; they migrate to the Inner Planes instead on reaching maturity, and use their magical abilities to tailor their surroundings (and often neighbors) to their liking. This tends to boil down to them making their surroundings more and more like their plane of origin, which while largely a good thing with the Good-aligned kinds... is less than ideal when an Evil-aligned one comes along and claims the countryside in the name of {{Hell}}.

!!Apocalypse Dragon

Twisted, hateful monsters from the bleak wastes of Abaddon, apocalypse dragons come to the Universe to wage war on life and fertility.

* PlagueMaster: Their breath weapons are laced with disease and spread plague to those they touch. They can also cast ''contagion'' and ''plague storm'' as innate spells once they grow old enough.

!!Bliss Dragon
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood

Dragons from Nirvana who appoint themselves as the guardians of the wild places of the worlds.

* FeatheredDragons: They have vast, white birdlike wings.
* ForestRanger: Bliss dragons consider themselves guardians of animals and the wilderness, watching over sanctums of pristine wildland and expelling even fey and magical beasts that don't measure to their exacting standards.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: They have white bird wings instead of the usual membranous ones, fitting their status as the purely good variant of planar dragons.
* ShockAndAwe: Their breath weapon is a line of electricity, and deals lingering electric damage for a turn after striking.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can take the form of any animal they wish.

!!Crypt Dragon
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->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral

Dragons from Pharasma's Boneyard. They take it upon themselves to guard the rightful passage of souls to the afterlife from all who would disrupt it, from necromancers to daemons.

* TheParalyzer: A crypt dragon's scales are filled with eldritch energy that can paralyze foes.
* TakenForGranite: Especially weak or unlucky foes hit by a crypt dragon's crush will get turned into stone.
* ThroatLight: A crypt dragon's mouth glows blue.
* TouchTheIntangible: Their physical attacks can natural touch ethereal creatures such as specters and ghosts, helping them corral restless spirits and watch over the souls of the dead.

!!Edict Dragon
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulNeutral

Dragons from Axis who spread order and stricture to civilizations across the planes.

* InstantRunes: They can write magical symbols extremely quickly -- quickly enough, in fact, that scrawling down runes on their foes' bodies with their claws or tails is a viable combat strategy for them.
* MindControl: For one round, great wyrm edict dragons can take control of the mind of a creature targeted by their breath weapon.
* WordsCanBreakMyBones: Edict dragons can hinder foes by writing magical runes on their bodies in the middle of combat.

!!Havoc Dragon
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->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood

Dragons from Elysium. They seek to create realms of relaxation and revelry, but often cause collateral damage in the process.

* FairyDragons: They strongly resemble a supersized version of this. They sport butterfly wings and antennae, and further share true faerie dragons' whimsical natures, ChaoticGood alignment and tendency for their attempts to foster havens of carefree life and revelry to backfire in some manner, but grow to be as large and powerful as any other breed of true dragons.
* SuperScream: A havoc dragon's breath weapon is a cone of sonic force.
* TailSlap: They're well-suited to using their long tails as lashing, whiplike weapons, which they can use to trip their foes. Old havoc dragons gain additionally powerful tail attacks, which deal three times the damage they would under normal conditions.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can take the shape of any humanoid or animal they please.

!!Infernal Dragon
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->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

Dragons from the corrupting domain of Hell. While not strictly part of Asmodeus's system, they take joy in corrupting mortals and leading them to damnation.

* DragonsAreDemonic: Hell dragons are horrific monsters in league with the devils, and seek to damn souls to the flames of Hell.
* EasyRoadToHell: Anyone who dies from a Great Wyrm Infernal Dragon's BreathWeapon goes to Hell, regardless of alignment. They can still be resurrected, but it's a lot harder than normal.
* HellFire: Infernal dragons breathe unholy hellfire, which if used by a great wyrm damns the souls of its slain victims to Hell. Fire damage from their spell-like abilities also resolves as hellfire.
* PlayingWithFire: Besides breathing fire, ancient and older infernal dragons can cast ''fire storm'' once per day.
* SummonMagic: Old and older infernal dragons can summon a contract devil to serve them once per day.

!!Paradise Dragon
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->'''Alignment:''' LawfulGood

Dragons from the realm of Heaven. They create sanctums to guard the innocent against evil throughout the multiverse.

* BackFromTheDead: Once a month, a great wyrm paradise dragon can offer a dead mortal a second chance at life. If the soul accepts, they're reborn into a new body as per ''true resurrection'' with their alignment shifted two steps towards LawfulGood.%%In-universe alignment.
* HomingLasers: When targeting chaotic or evil creatures, paradise dragons can make their breath weapon turn angles of up to ninety degrees.

!!Rift Dragon
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Dragons from the chaotic, ever-shifting Outer Rifts. They embody ruin just as much as its native demons, leaving behind only ruins and devastation wherever they go.

* AcidAttack: A rift dragon's BreathWeapon is a wave of corrosive acid, and can make their targets more vulnerable to future acid-based attacks.
* DisintegratorRay: Great wyrm rift dragons can emit lines of destructive force from their mouths that disintegrate anything they touch.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Rift dragons are neighbours of demons who make their way to the Universe to force mortals to worship them as demigods of suffering and destruction.

!!Tumult Dragon
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral

Chimeric dragons from the churning Maelstrom whose whims and designs for the material world change as often as their home plane's restless tides.

* ConfusionFu: They can switch elemental resistances in the middle of combat, and choose which elemental damage their breath weapon deals each time they use it.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Tumult dragons appear as jumbled aggregations of other creatures' body parts, assembled without rhyme or reason into a draconic form.
[[/folder]]

!Other Draconic Septs
[[folder:Azi]]

* EvilVersusEvil: Evil true dragons, including young chromatic dragons, loathe and look down upon the azi, and the feeling is mutual.
* SemiDivine: The first azi were creations of the evil dragon god Dahak and the div demigod Ahriman, and they fancy themselves having the bloodline of both dragons and gods.

!!Sruvara
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Huge

* DeadlyGas: A sruvara can violently shake its body, freeing the poison from its scales, causing a noxious, mind-numbing cloud to erupt around its body.
* FoodAsBribe: A sruvara can usually be bribed with exotic delicacies or rare slaves to slowly slaughter.
* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Sruvara revel in the screams of tortured victims and the plight of villagers forced to choose between watering themselves or their children.
* PoisonIsCorrosive: A sruvara can spit forth a stream of poison so corrupt it can sear skin and dissolve metal.
* PoisonousPerson: A sruvara's body is host to some of the most deadly toxins found in the world.

!!Gandareva
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* AcidAttack: A gandareva can spew forth a wave of thick, acidic ooze.
* AbsoluteXenophobe: Gandarevas never ally with sentient creatures, no matter how evil, being demonstrably paranoid about betrayal and potential theft.
* DragonHoard: Gandarevas covet elaborate works of art, powerful magic items and other riches. Once they possess such treasures, they do all they can to protect them.
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A gandareva has four mighty arms.
* SeaMonster: Gandarevas prefer to live in the sea and terrorise ships that dare to sail through their domain.

!!Zahhak
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

* TheCaligula: Zahhaks adopt the roles of petty tyrants and dictators over the realms they claim as their own.
* JackassGenie: A zahhak can grant a single terrible wish which will invariably bring hardship and sorrow to whoever made the wish.
* MonsterLord: With the power to enforce their wills upon most beings, zahhaks often command the service of divs or even other azi.
* MultipleHeadCase: A zahhak has two additional snake heads flanking its main one.
* PlayingWithFire: A zahhak can unleash a gout of noxious flame that both burns and poisons any creature it touches.
* PoisonousPerson: Both of a zahhak's breath weapon and snake heads are venomous.
* PowerNullifier: A zahhak can rasp a terrible curse that causes any single flying creature or object it can see to plummet to the ground and be unable to fly for 10 minutes.
* SpawnBroodling: Any humanoid victim of a zahhak will eventually rise as a ghoul.
* SupernaturalFearInducer: A zahhak unsettles its foes with its mere presence.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Drake]]
Quick, animalistic dragons with a connection to the environment. Many drakes are considered to be the inbred, degenerate descendants of true dragons who lost their forelimbs, their size and much of their magic and intelligence somewhere along the way, although it is believed in-universe that they are likelier to descend from dragon/wyvern hybrids rather than simple inbreeding -- if nothing else, it's fairly unlikely that so many dragon varieties would evolve the exact same forms and abilities completely independently through inbreeding alone.

* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: Drakes have some form of relationship with wyverns, which they strongly resemble, although precisely what that is isn't wholly clear -- some believe drakes to have arisen from wyverns and true dragons crossbreeding, while others classify wyverns as a type of drake themselves. Notably, the normally foul-tempered drakes and wyverns display an unusual degree of deference and cooperativeness towards one another.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: According to some, drakes are descended from the offspring of wyverns and true dragons that stabilized into self-sustaining species with the wyverns' body plan, minus the stinger, and the dragons' elemental affinities and colors.
* UndergroundMonkey: Drakes come in many, many varieties themed around different elements and environments.

!!Shadow Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_shadowdrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny

The smallest of the drakes, shadow drakes make their homes on the edges of humanoid civilization and, for better or for worse, are often closely involved in their larger neighbors' lives.

* CastingAShadow: They can conceal themselves within shadows, and their breath is a cloud of mist that snuffs out all sources of nonmagical light that it covers.
* {{Familiar}}: They can be taken as familiars by strong enough spellcasters.
* PrehensileTail: Shadow drake tails are very dexterous, enough so to be useful in grabbing and manipulating small objects and even in picking locks.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: They're the smallest of species of drake. While most drakes are considerably larger than a grown human, shadow drakes are about the size of a hawk.

!!Prairie Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_prairiedrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Small

* ForTheEvulz: The average prairie drake has a temperament similar to that of a wicked child who delights in tormenting others.
* HelpfulMook: Prairie drakes' presence helps to turn the topsoil and encourage new plant growth, making them a keystone species for the environment. Even their breath weapon leaves behind rich drake soil. Being seen as beneficial annoys most prairie drakes, who believe such a reputation makes them look weak and conflicts with their apex predator mystique.

!!River Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_riverdrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Bestial relatives of black dragons, river drakes are usually found lairing by bodies of freshwater.

* AcidAttack: River drakes can spit volleys of caustic mucus.
* AquaticMook: Otherwise standard drakes, but with a swim speed and found in rivers.

!!Forest Drake

->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Brutish cousins of green dragons that favor temperate woodlands.

* AcidAttack: The gaseous cloud expelled by their BreathWeapon is highly acidic, much like that of green dragons.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tails are tipped with long, sharp spikes.
* DeadlyGas: They breathe out balls of noxious chemicals that burst into clouds of toxic gas.

!!Flame Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_flamedrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Feral relatives of red dragons that inhabit mountains.

* {{Fireballs}}: Their breath weapon is an explosive ball of fire mimicking the effects of a ''fireball'' spell.
* KillItWithIce: As creatures closely tied to elemental fire, flame drakes are very vulnerable to cold damage.
* PlayingWithFire: They're immune to fire damage and breathe flames.

!!Mist Drake
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_mist_drake.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 5
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Stealthy, agile drakes that inhabit cold and temperate wetlands and hills.

* FragileSpeedster: Mist drakes are quicker, stealthier and more agile than other drake species, but also less heavily built and not suited for extended periods of combat. The consequently rely on hit-and-run tactics during combat, striking quickly and trusting their speed and camouflage to avoid retribution.
* StealthyMook: Mist drakes are very stealthy creatures, and tend to make good use of fog and cover when attacking to confuse their foes and protect themselves. That they can exhale a cloud of thick mist at will to better hide themselves and ruin sightlines doesn't harm.

!!Jungle Drake
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_jungle_drake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Colorful, arboreal drakes that inhabit thick jungles, jungle drakes are also thought to be related to green dragons.

* BewareMyStingerTail: The tails of jungle drakes are tipped with sharp stingers, which besides the damage of the sting itself also inject poison into their targets.
* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: Jungle drakes resemble classical and in-game wyverns more so than any other drake species, thanks to their toxic bites and stingers.
* PoisonousPerson: The stinger at the ends of a jungle drake's tail contains a powerful toxin it can use to debilitate prey and opponents.

!!Sea Drake
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sea_drake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Oceanic, fishlike drakes of great size and uncertain descent.

* AquaticMook: Large but otherwise standard drakes, but with a swim speed and found in the sea.
* ShockAndAwe: They get ball lightning for a breath weapon.
* SeaMonster: They're entirely aquatic, preferentially marine creatures, and are persistent threats to shipping and sea travel wherever they are found. They're especially fond of capsizing boats.

!!Wyvern
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_wyvern.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6 (wyvern), 8 (Aashaq's wyvern)
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil (wyvern), ChaoticEvil (Aashaq's wyvern) %%CN in 1E, presumably changed to CE in 2E to align with the standard wyvern
->'''Size:''' Large

Violent, wild dragons with no forelegs and a venomous sting.

* BewareMyStingerTail: Wyverns have a poisonous stinger at the tip of their tails.
* BreathWeapon: Aashaq's wyverns are able to emit a noxious blast of gas that burns and blinds those in its path.
* MultipleTailedBeast: Unlike their more mundane cousins, Aashaq's wyverns have bifurcated tails.
* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: Effectively the same kind popularized by [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons the world's oldest roleplaying game]] -- stupid, aggressive and evil relations of true dragons with no breath weapons but with deadly stingers at the end of their tails. They can interbreed with true dragons just fine, although true dragons can in practice breed with just about anything; dragon/wyvern interbreeding in the ancient past is thought to have resulted in the creation of the drakes, another type of dragons resembling large wyverns without stingers but with their draconic progenitors' elemental breaths.
* PoisonousPerson: They can poison prey and enemies by stinging them with their barbed, envenomed tails.

!!Frost Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_frostdrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Descended from white dragons, these mountain-dwelling creatures are paradoxically enough some of the largest and strongest of the drakes.

* AnIcePerson: They can spit out balls of icy liquid that burst into clouds of freezing mist, move across slippery ice without any difficulty and climb up any surface as long as it is coated with ice. They are also immune to cold damage.
* KillItWithFire: As creatures closely tied to elemental cold, frost drakes are very vulnerable to fire damage.
* WallCrawl: A limited variant; they can climb on any surface, provided that it's covered in ice.

!!Spire Drake
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* CollectorOfTheStrange: Spire drakes are particularly curious about magic and magical items, and enjoy having large collections of such items even if they don't know how to use them.

!!Desert Drake
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drake_desertdrake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Fierce, predatory drakes found in tropical deserts, desert drakes lack the cunning and intelligence that characterizes their more powerful blue dragon kin.

* SandWorm: Desert drakes are adept burrowers, and are fond of lurking beneath the sand to ambush prey passing above.
* ShockAndAwe: Their breath weapon is an electrically charged cloud of airborne sand and dust, and are themselves resistant to electric damage.
* StealthyMook: Desert drakes are adept ambush predators and themed around stealth, and specialize in lurking out of view before suddenly attacking passing prey.

!!Lava Drake
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathtfinder_lava_drake.png]]
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

Animalistic relations of magma dragons who lair near volcanoes.

* MagmaMan: They can swim in lava and vomit globs of molten rock onto their foes.

!!Rift Drake
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* AcidAttack: A rift drake can spit a ball of caustic gas that bursts into a cloud upon impact.

!!Ether Drake
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large
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* {{Telepathy}}: Ether drakes are innate telepaths, and often use telepathy to communicate with each other.
* TokenHeroicOrc: Ether drakes are the only non-evil drake species, and stand out among their cousins for their relatively nonaggressive natures and not habitually preying on sapient beings.

[[folder:Linnorm]]
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil

Ancient and primal dragons with no wings. They resent their more intelligent and magical descendants.

* ChaoticEvil: Unlike other dragon types, which if nothing else vary along the law-chaos axis, every single breed of linnorm fits in this aligment.
* ColdIron: Linnorms are vulnerable to cold iron weapons, something presumably linked to their close ties with the First World and the fey.
* DyingCurse: Adult linnorms can inflict a nasty curse upon their killer.
* GiantFlyer: Despite their size and lack of wings, linnorms can fly like true dragons.
* GrimUpNorth: Linnorms inhabit the far north of the world, and are rarely if ever found in warmer, southerly areas.
* PoisonousPerson: All linnorms have a venomous bite.
* UndergroundMonkey: Linnorms tend to be geared around very specific environments, with each variant being named and themed around its preferred nesting spots -- besides variants found in the taiga, in glaciers or along coastlines you also get things like linnorms specific to burial mounds, tarns[[note]]glacier-dug mountain lakes[[/note]] and the like.

!!Young Linnorm

* BigEater: Juvenile linnorms are voracious, eating any living creature to fuel their growth.

!!Crag Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crag_linnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 14
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Bestial, primitive linnorms that inhabit cold, rocky hills.

* KillItWithFire: The killer of a crag linnorm is affected by a Curse of Fire, which makes them vulnerable to fire.
* MagmaMan: The breath weapon of crag linnorms is a jet of lava.
* PlayingWithFire: A crag linnorm's bite injects a literally burning venom.

!!Shoal Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/linnorm_shoallinnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Aquatic linnorms found in icy lakes and rivers.

* BeastOfBattle: Some frost giant tribes capture very young shoal linnorms and train them as guards.
* MakingASplash: The breath weapon of shoal linnorms is a cloud of scalding steam.
* PlayingWithFire: The shoal linnorm's venom burns like the hottest alchemist's fire.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Their death curse is particularly nasty in this regard -- every time its victim attempts to ingest a liquid, this will stream into their lungs and drown them on dry land.

!!Fjord Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/linnorm_fjordlinnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Fish-headed linnorms that lurk along northern coasts.

* AnIcePerson: The breath weapon of fjord linnorms is a line of freezing cold water that hardens into ice on contact.
* SeaSerpents: Serpentine, aquatic dragons with only two limbs, webbed claws, fish-like heads and fins, tails ending in flukes and a propensity for attacking ships.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Their death curse makes water-breathing of any sort impossible and prevents its targets from holding their breath for more than limited amount of time. This will even affect naturally aquatic creatures, making challenging a fjord linnorm effectively suicidal for other water-bound monsters.

!!Ice Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ice_linnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Size:''' Colossal

White-scaled linnorms that live in icy peaks and within glacial crevasses.

* KillItWithIce: The killer of an ice linnorm is affected by a Curse of Frost which makes them vulnerable to cold.
* AnIcePerson: The breath weapon of ice linnorms is a gout of freezing, clinging ooze.
* ThatsNoMoon: There are tales of mountaineers unknowingly climbing along the bodies of immense ice linnorms sleeping coiled around mountains, not realizing that they're mistaking a monster for a peak until they reach its head.

!!Cairn Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cairn_innorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Gaunt, pale serpents that lurk within burial bounds, cairn linnorms are eerie and unnerving even by the standards of their kind.

* AcidAttack: Their breath weapon is a gout of acid infused with negative energy, which saps the life from their victims even as it eats into their flesh.
* FoodChainOfEvil: Unlike most other monsters, cairn linnorms feed almost exclusively on undead (although not on the incorporeal kind, as unlike umbral dragons they lack a means of physically interacting with ectoplasm). Probably the only upside of living in a cairn linnorm's territory is that it will almost completely devoid of corporeal undead.
* MustBeInvited: It's not clear whether or not this is actually true, but legends hold that cairn linnorms can neither enter nor leave a tomb without the express permission of the interred's descendants -- or the interred themselves, should they have risen into undeath.
* PoisonousPerson: A cairn linnorm has an acidic bite and breath weapon.
* RapidAging: Cairn linnorms inflict their killers with a Curse of Decay, which makes its victims age a year per day.

!!Taiga Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_taiga_linnorm.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Size:''' Colossal

Lightning-spitting dragons that roam the great northern forests of the world.

* ShockAndAwe: The breath weapon of taiga linnorms is a cone of electrified vapor, and their bite is charged as well.

!!Tarn Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tarn_linnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20
->'''Size:''' Colossal

Two-headed linnorms that lair along isolated mountain lakes.

* AcidAttack: They can choose between a line of acid and a cone of acidic gas for their breath weapon, and inject [[PoisonIsCorrosive acidic venom]] through their bites.
* DeadlyGas: A tarn linnorm's acidic breath will evaporate into toxic fumes when it dissolves organic flesh.
* MultipleHeadCase: Tarn linnorms have two heads. These heads can both use their breath weapons at the same time for doubled destruction, and the expanded range of vision means that it's pretty much impossible to sneak up on these things.
* PoisonIsCorrosive: Tarn linnorm venom deals acid damage.
* WoundThatWillNotHeal: Their curse makes it impossible for their killer to heal naturally or benefit from magical healing.

!!Tor Linnorm
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tor_linnorm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 21
->'''Size:''' Colossal

Powerful, four-armed linnorms that lurk within volcanoes.

* AGodAmI: Tor linnorms enjoy being adored and worshipped and have been known to delay eating victims that seem to be particulary cowed by their presence.
* KillItWithFire: The killer of a tor linnorm is affected by a Curse of Boiling Blood, which makes them vulnerable to fire.
* NonIndicativeName: A tor is a type of rock formation found in otherwise flat land. While a given tor may theoretically be volcanic and thus a suitable home for a tor linnorm, there's still a rather severe disconnect between this creature's name and its actual preferred habitat.
* PlayingWithFire: The breath weapon of tor linnorms is a cone of flames and ash, and their venom is burning.
* VolcanicVeins: A tor linnorm's body visibly glows red with its fiery power, red light outlining the spaces between its scales.

!!Sea Linnorm
->'''Level:''' 22
->'''Size:''' Colossal

Immensely powerful linnorms that lurk within the darkest depths of the sea.
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* TheAgeless: Sea linnorms are believed to be functionally immortal -- none have ever been known to die of old age, and the oldest recorded specimens have lived for over five millennia each.
* LazyDragon: Sea linnorms hibernate for centuries at a time, awakening only to feed and check over their territories before returning to their sleep.
* LuringInPrey: A sea linnorm has a distinctive facial lure which it uses to lure sea animals to their doom; in game terms, it can cause any other creature to stand stupefied when the sea linnorm flashes it.
* SeaSerpents: Sea linnorms are immense, serpentine dragons, provided with lionfish-like spines and glowing lures, that live in the deepest underwater trenches of the world.
* ShockAndAwe: Bioelectricity courses through their bodies, powering both their lures and cone of orange electricity that serves as their breath weapon and shorts out the nervous systems of their victims.
* SuperDrowningSkills: Their death curse, the curse of crushing depths, causes their killers to take 3d6 pressure damage every round when underwater, regardless of any skills, abilities or protections that might decree otherwise.

!Single Draconic Species
!!Templates
[[folder:Half-Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' Same as base creature + 2
->'''Alignment:''' Same as base creature
->'''Size:''' Same as base creature

The result of mixed parentage between a dragon and another creature. This template can be applied to any living corporeal creature, changing its creature type to dragon.

* HybridMonster: The non-draconic progenitors of half-dragons can be varied indeed, and are hardly limited to humanoids -- half-dragon basilisks, griffons and destrachans are all known to exist. Generally, half-dragons of any sort are most often the result of magical accidents or experiments -- rarely, a half-dragon might be the actual result of a dragon mating with another creature.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: Half-dragons generally breed true with others of their own kinds: if enough are created in close enough spatial and temporal proximity to each other, it's entirely possible for them to become a true, self-sustaining species in their own right.

!!Dracolisk
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_dracolisk_6.png]]
->'''Level:''' 7
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

The offspring of true dragons and basilisks.
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* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Their non-draconic ancestors are basilisks, and they retain their multiple legs and petrifying gaze.
* TakenForGranite: Like their basilisk progenitors, they can petrify those who look them in the eyes.
* TrueBreedingHybrid: Dracolisks are rare magical crossbreeds of chromatic dragons and basilisks that have proven viable and can breed with one another as well as with basilisks.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: More so than either parent species -- they have a dragon's wings and a basilisk's eight legs, for a total of ten articulate limbs.

!!Level 0
[[folder:Pyrausta]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_pyrausta.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 0

->'''Size:''' Diminutive

* TechnicolorFire: A pyrausta's fiery breath [[LivingMoodRing changes colour depending on its emotions]].

!!Level 1
[[folder:Pseudodragon]]
[[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pseudodragon.jpeg]]
->'''Level:''' 1
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* BewareMyStingerTail: Their tails are tipped with poisonous stingers.
* {{Familiar}}: Highly social as they are, pseudodragons will partner up as familiars with good-aligned sorcerers and wizards.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: They're about the size of housecats, despite resembling true dragons in every outward aspect otherwise, and capable of perching on a human-sized creature's shoulder.
* {{Telepathy}}: As they cannot physically speak, telepathy is their only means of communicating directly with other species.

!!Level 2
[[folder:Calligraphy Wyrm]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

* {{Objectshifting}}: A calligraphy wyrm can turn into a golden fountain pen decorated with designs reminiscent of sovereign dragons.

[[folder:Fey Dragonet]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny

Whimsical, butterfly-winged dragon-kin, fey dragonets have closer ties to the fey and the First World than most of their kin.

* BossInMookClothing: Unlike other dragons, fey dragonets don't grow in size after reaching adulthood and often take levels in spellcaster classes. Consequently, while sporadic fey dragonets can grow very powerful indeed, they won't actually look much different from their common kin. This can lead to people unknowingly picking on someone much above their weight class, when the minor woodland creature turns out to be a level 20 druid or wizard.
* FairyDragons: Miniature dragons with blue scales and colorful butterfly wings, and which breathe a euphoric gas that makes other beings dazed and confused. They have close ties to the fey, often associating with them, and many live in the First World. They wander through life in search of amusement and playing elaborate tricks and pranks on anyone they encounter; they don't generally seek to harm anyone, but their pranks can often get away from them.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: They don't grow to be much bigger than cats.
* StupidityInducingAttack: They breathe a euphoric gas that stupefies those that breathe it, dulling their minds and clouding their senses.
* TheTrickster: Fey dragonets wander through life in search of amusement and playing elaborate tricks and pranks on anyone they encounter, but without seeking to harm anyone.

[[folder:Grauladon]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grauladon.png]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

Grauladons are vicious predators that appear crocodilian in form, but are in fact distant offshoots of dragonkind.

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Age of Ashes: Hellknight Hill'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=435 here]].

* ThePigPen: A grauladon has a disgusting smell, the result of its fetid habitat and diet of rotting, waterlogged meat.

[[folder:House Drake]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticGood
->'''Size:''' Tiny

A subspecies of pseudodragon that lives in the Varisian city of Korvosa. Known for battling the imps also plaguing the city.

* GoodCounterpart: They serve as this to the flocks of imps they are in constant conflict with for control of Korvosa's rooftops and skies. In addition to their opposing alignments -- ChaoticGood and LawfulEvil -- the two species possess multiple shared physical features, such as size, leathery wings, six limbs, horns, stinger-tipped tails, and a position near the bottom of the magical pecking order, to further emphasize their rivalry.
* LamarckWasRight: Their pseudodragon ancestors started by chewing on silver coins, studying magic, and eating dream spiders so that their natural weapons could affect imps. They started naturally displaying these adaptations in only a few short generations, suggesting that some outside source helped them out. Or maybe dragons just evolve that fast.
* {{Retcon}}: House drakes were developed for the special edition of ''Curse of the Crimson Throne'', after the writers realized that stock pseudodragon had several disadvantages against imps, and wanted to even things out.
* SilverHasMysticPowers: Their teeth and stingers are laced with silver, allowing them to penetrate the imps' natural DamageReduction.

[[folder:Nycar]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* PoisonousPerson: A nycar's savage bite is venomous; after one bite, the nycar usually withdraws to safety to wait for its prey to sicken and die.

[[folder:Tatzlwyrm]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tatzlwyrm.png]]
->'''Level:''' 2
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium

A whelp race of dragonkind, tatzlwyrms lurk amid the deepest wilds of the natural world. Although they lack many of the qualities of true dragons--most notably wings and powerful breath weapons--their instinctual cunning and innate ferocity is not diminished by their size.\\
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Their 3.5 stats can be found in ''Hollow's Last Hope''. Their Pathfinder 1st Edition stats can be found in ''Bestiary 3'' or online [[https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/dragons/tatzlwyrm/ here]].

* ArmlessBiped: Tatzlwyrms have only two limbs and no wings.

!!Level 3
[[folder:Kyrana]]
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Medium

Kyranas are large, iguana-like relatives of true dragons, with low intelligence and an affinity for fire. Though quite weak as dragons go, kyranas are still dangerous enough to command the fear and respect of kobolds, who often encounter the fire-breathing dragons while digging deep tunnels.

* FeedItWithFire: Kyranas are unaffected by fire-based attacks, and are healed supernaturally by contact with fire.

[[folder:Tidepool Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' 3
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* {{Familiar}}: Tidepool dragons sometimes become familiars of spellcasters who go out of their way to feed them rich or exotic foods.

!!Level 4
[[folder:Amphiptere]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: If an amphiptere scores a critical hit with its tail attack against a creature smaller than itself, its spike-tipped tail impales the victim.
* OurWyvernsAreDifferent: Amphipteres are close relatives to wyverns, and have serpentine bodies and bat-like wings like their cousins. Unlike wyverns, however, amphipteres are only capable of limited flight and must use the long claws on the tips of their wings to propel their bodies along.

[[folder:Najra Lizard]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/najralizard.png]]
->'''Level:''' 4
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Tiny

* PoisonousPerson: The najra lizard's bite injects a venom that turns the victim extremely thirsty and prevents it from quenching its thirst. The wealthy may seek to dose a rival with diluted najra lizard venom, hoping their thirst will make them drink too much alcohol and create an embarrassing spectacle.

!!Level 5
[[folder:Gowrow]]
->'''Level:''' 5

* AquaticMook: A gowrow's natural weapons and fighting style are adapted to its aquatic nature.

[[folder:Rope Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' 5

->'''Size:''' Small

* ThatsNoMoon: Rope dragons often disguise as and hide among ordinary rope to steal sweet and expensive foods and escape undetected.

!!Level 6
[[folder:I'iko Dragon]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iikodragon.png]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Small

* EatDirtCheap: I'iko dragons consume glass, crystals and gemstones to harden and colour their scales.

[[folder:Myroga]]
->'''Level:''' 6
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
----
* CollectorOfTheStrange: The treasures in a myroga's hoard tend to be eccentric and strange, like powerful crystal balls, cursed suits of armour and intelligent talking weapons.
* LeyLine: Myrogas draw their occult abilities from ley lines--loci of intense magical energy often associated with psychic phenomena.
* MagicEater: A myroga roosts near a ley line and sups on its nearly inexhaustible ambient magic to grow stronger and expand its repertoire of brutal powers.

!!Level 8
[[folder:Bida]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bida.png]]
->'''Level:''' 8
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil

A bida uses its impressive intellect and powerful magic to pose as a humanoid and infiltrate a settlement. Over the course of weeks or months, it establishes itself as a key member of the village, and only after it has become invaluable to the community does it reveal the terrible price of its assistance: regular offerings of flesh and gold. To hide its presence from the outside world, a bida conceals its enslaved settlement in a large-scale illusion, leaving only a stand of jungle trees where once a thriving village may have been and ordering the townsfolk to destroy any roads in and out of town.

Their 2nd Edition stats can be found in ''Age of Ashes: Cult of Cinders'' or online [[https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=440 here]].

* MasterOfIllusion: Bidas employ illusion magic to disguise themselves as humans, and hide villages that they enslaved from the outside world.

!!Level 9
[[folder:Dragon Turtle]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dragonturtle.png]]
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* MakingASplash: The dragon turtle can create a massive growing tsunami.
* SeaMonster: Dragon turtles live in oceans and enjoy a fearsome reputation, though they delight in secretly observing seafaring cities grow and evolve and might even protect their wards from pirates, invaders or other sea monsters.
* ToServeMan: Dragon turtles are glad to supplement their diet with the flesh of sailors.
* TurtleIsland: Some dragon turtles can grow so large to resemble rocky islands from a distance. Legends persist of truly immense dragon turtles who spend centuries drifting on uncharted waters, with shells that serve as islands capable of supporting entire ecosystems and allegedly even people who know nothing of lands that remain in one place.

[[folder:Pest Drake]]
->'''Level:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

Minute drakes bred as a failed attempt at creating new familiars, pest drakes are largely harmless on their own but can form destructive, screeching flocks when allowed to breed in large numbers.

* AcidAttack: They breathe acidic gas and constantly secrete caustic slime, causing any creature that passes through a swarm of pest drakes coated in acid. Outside of combat, this proves to be a major problem for architects and urban planners -- pest drakes' acid quickly seeps into their perches, corroding and damaging any architecture or statuary they claim as theirs.
* {{Familiar}}: They were bred to serve as loyal familiars without the independence and intelligence of pseudodragons. This attempt failed -- pest drakes can't be taken as familiar -- but they're still extremely comfortable around humanoids, leading to their becoming an ubiquitous urban pest.
* FantasticVermin: In this case, the fantastic equivalent of fad pets who either fled into the wild or were deliberately released after they grew too big or the fad passed. They ended up forming immense colonies in many major cities that endure into the present day and are ubiquitous nuisances where they live, picking through trash for food and badgering people for scraps, but their real danger comes from their tendency to aggressively defend their roosts (which makes construction near them extremely difficult) and the way their acidic secretions eat through stone, paint and mortar to damage walls and ruin frescos and statues.
* ShoulderSizedDragon: They're about a foot from nose to tail-tip and never weigh more than two pounds or so.
* TheSwarm: They're highly social and communal nesters, and any disturbance to their roosting sites will quickly call down enraged flocks of wheeling, screeching drakes. Due to their being no more dangerous than a seagull on their own, they're statted to be always be fought in this manner.

!!Level 10
[[folder:Korir-Kokembe]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' Neutral

Many-limbed dragons that dwell in jungle rivers and live in symbiosis with swarms of vermin that nest in their gullets.

* PestController: They can vomit forth swarms of stinging or biting vermin -- either spiders, wasps or army ants -- magically summon additional swarms, and repel vermin away from themselves.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: They have two wings and eight legs.

[[folder:Peluda]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peluda.png]]
->'''Level:''' 10
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Large

* AchillesHeel: Their tails are farm more vulnerable than the rest of their bodies, and relatively easy to sever. Should a peluda's tail be cut off, it will lose its ability to use it as a weapon and will suffer from deadly blood loss.
* SpikeShooter: They can lunch volleys of their poisonous quills by violently shaking themselves.
* SpikesOfVillainy: They are evil and covered in spines, as well as being able to throw them as a ranged attack.

!!Level 12
[[folder:Scitalis]]
->'''Level:''' 12
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Large

* ArmlessBiped: Scitalises have no forelegs to tear apart a meal, and must wait for their kills to ripen for a day or so in their lairs before eating.

!!Level 13
[[folder:Cetus]]
[[quoteright:223:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cetus_0.png]]
->'''Level:''' 13
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Colossal

Monstrous, shark-headed and serpentine sea dragons of immense size and terrifying power.

* AntiMagic: Their bite dispels enchantments.
* AKindOfOne: A borderline example: "cetus" (or ''"ketos"'') is strictly speaking just the ancient Greek word meaning "whale", and even in the context of sea monsters was often pluralized. However, ''Pathfinder'''s beast is fairly explicitly based on the monster faced by Perseus, but reinterpreted as an entire species of similar creatures.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Cetuses are bad luck in a very literal sense -- any non-marine creature around them is cursed with bad luck, represented on the tabletop by having to redo every roll and take the lower result.
* SeaMonster: They're archetypal sea monsters -- big, aggressive ocean-dwelling terrors that menace any shipping, ports and aquatic settlements unfortunate enough to be in their claimed territories, demanding offerings and ransom to stave off their attacks.
* TakenForGranite: In a reference to how the original Ketos of Greek myth died, cetuses are highly vulnerable to petrification.
* ThreateningShark: The head of a cetus is that of a shark.
* WeatherManipulation: Cetuses can naturally shape winds and weather to their liking, and readily employ this in combat to lash their opponents with gales and beating weather.

!!Level 15
[[folder:Kongamato]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_kongamato.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

* DinosaursAreDragons: Sort of. They're TerrorDactyl-like dragons.

[[folder:Gorynych]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_gorynch.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 15

* EvilVersusEvil: Gorynyches usually prey on young green and black dragons to steal their hoards.
* AKindOfOne: Gorynych was the name of a single, specific dragon in Slavic myth -- the general term for dragons, meaning the species Gorynych was described as being a part of, was ''zmey''.
* MultipleHeadCase: Three heads each.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Woundwyrm]]
->'''Level:''' 15
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

* VacuumMouth: A woundwyrm can attempt to suck creatures and unattended objects in a 15-foot cone into a vortex in its maw.

!!Level 16
[[folder:Spine Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' 16
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

A species of dragon particularly notorious in Numeria, spine dragons resemble true dragons but do not progress through age categories. Their abilities and defenses make them singularly adept at handling the alien threats and strange constructs of Numeria, and as a result, they've become one of its most successful predators.

* SpikeShooter: They can launch up to four of their quills per round like projectile weapons.
* SuperScream: They can unleash powerful sonic shrieks that are especially effective against constructs.
* TheSpiny: Their hides are bristling with razor-sharp spines ready to skewer anyone attacking them in meelee.

!!Level 17
[[folder:Khala]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Large
Serpentine, three-headed dragons with no limbs save for a pair of wings.

* AnIcePerson: Their BreathWeapon is a jet of shockingly cold liquid that can encase its target in ice and they're immune to cold, but vulnerable to fire.
* MultipleHeadCase: Khala have three heads.
* OneGenderRace: All khala are female, and it's unknown how they reproduce.

[[folder:Prism Dragon]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/prism_dragon.png]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Huge

Extraplanar, crystalline dragons fond of manipulation and complicated plots.

* BrightIsNotGood: They're brightly colored and, while not evil, still typically far from benevolent.
* TheChessmaster: They love manipulating the lives and societies of other species in complex plots, sometimes as part of contests of one-upmanship with each other and sometimes entirely out of personal whim. Two dragons might spend centuries engaged in a contest where one is trying to push two nations into war and the other is seeking to prevent this, all with the stipulation that they must never meet directly, or a dragon might dedicate itself to trying to get a society to abandon its current form of government for a completely different one through careful manipulation of rumors, politics and certain select individuals.
** These plots and schemes are not meant to pursue any real goals or agendas -- by and large, the prism dragons' manipulations are a very convoluted way of staving off the boredom of their long, long lives.
** An unusual twist is that they set up byzantine, intricate schemes with the full expectation that things will go off the rails on one or multiple occasions -- as they see it, this gives them the chance to test their adaptability and ability to manage rapidly changing situations.
* CrystallineCreature: They appear to be made entirely of masses of roughly cut, jagged crystals. All their melee attacks deal cutting damage as a result, representing the sharp edges of their component crystals cutting into their foes.
* DemonicPossession: They can possess and control other people; since they cannot shapeshift like most dragons can, they rely on speaking and acting through possessed pawns to interact with the societies they manipulate. They only take control of people who consent to be possessed, apparently out of a sense of fair play, but they also have some very strange ideas of what constitutes as informed consent...
* HiddenInPlainSight: One trick they enjoy pulling is to pose as [[NobodyHereButUsStatues a piece of ordinary statuary]] while psychically nudging people into acting according to their plans.
* LightEmUp: Their BreathWeapon is a beam of burning, blinding light, which they can replace with a rainbow-like, diffracted beam acting as a ''prismatic spray'' spell. They also have a limited ability to control and direct ambient light through their prismatic, faceted bodies.
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Something facilitated by their naturally rocky forms -- a prism dragon standing motionless on a plinth is easy to mistake for an elaborate but otherwise normal statue, and the dragons often use this as a means of staying HiddenInPlainSight.
* PsychicPowers: Prism dragons are natural psions, and are quite skilled at influencing and affecting other people's minds through psychic suggestions, manipulation of the sense or outright mind control.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In a variation, they have no issue with their immortality ''per se'' -- they do not see it as a curse and do not wish to die or become mortal -- but they do see eternity as terribly boring, and put a lot of time and effort into staving off the ennui of their eternal lives. This is the reason behind their manipulations of mortal civilizations: they view the complexities of mortal mindsets, the subtlety and care needed to direct societies, their endless proxy contests and convoluted bets with one another and the scrambling to keep control when something inevitably goes wrong with their plans as endless fun and an excellent source of chaos and novelty to stave off the boredom of eternity.

[[folder:Whimwyrm]]
->'''Level:''' 17
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticNeutral
->'''Size:''' Medium
----
* FakeMemories: The whimwyrm's breath weapon overwhelms creatures with a riot of false, unpleasant memories.
* MoodSwinger: The whimsically dangerous whimwyrms' moods shift quickly from one extreme to the other.
[[/folder]]

!!Level 18
[[folder:Taniniver]]
->'''Level:''' 18
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge
----
* BlessedWithSuck: Having all those disease and necromancy based powers probably isn't worth being sick and in agony all the time.
* BodyHorror: It's infected with all manner of horrible diseases and the one in the picture even has bits of its skin falling off.
* EnemySummoner: They can cast undead-creating spells at will.
[[/folder]]

!!Level 19
[[folder:Vishap]]
->'''Level:''' 19
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Four-winged, crocodile-headed dragons that watch over {{Ley Line}}s.
----
* LeyLine: A vishap's entire life revolves around watching over and protecting ley line networks.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Vishaps are dragons with fish tails and crocodile heads.
* PoisonousPerson: Vishaps have venomous bites, and their blood is highly toxic as well -- anyone making a physical attack attack a vishap runs the risk of being poisoned by the dragon's blood.
* PsychicPowers: Vishaps are natural psions, and can cast an impressive variety of psychic spells.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: More so than other dragons. They have four legs and four wings, for a total of eight articulate limbs.
[[/folder]]

!!Level 21
[[folder:Sirrush]]
->'''Level:''' 21
->'''Alignment:''' NeutralGood
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan
----
* DeathActivatedSuperpower: When a sirrush dies, nonevil creatures within 100 feet (except other sirrushes) receive the benefits of a ''breath of life'' spell.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: A sirrush's breath weapon is a cone of searing sunlight.
[[/folder]]

!!Level 23
[[folder:Jabberwock]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_jabberwock.png]]
->'''Level:''' 20 (lesser jabberwock), 23 (jabberwock)
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Huge

Some of the mightiest of the Tane, legendary monsters created as living weapons by the Eldest of the First World, jabberwocks are beasts of legend who come to the Universe to spread death and destruction.
----
* AquaticMook: Slithy jabberwocks swim instead of flying, and are created to wreak destruction beneath the waves.
* BlackSpeech: A jabberwock can burble a blast of nonsense sounds which can confuse nearby creatures or create a sonic blast.
* BornAsAnAdult: Jabberwocks, like the other Tane, do not reproduce naturally; each is created by the Eldest as a fully formed adult.
* ColdFlames: Mimsy jabberwocks have eyes that burn with blue flames that deal cold damage.
* EyeBeams: All jabberwocks have the ability to project some kind of eye beams -- named, as per the original poem, Eyes of Flame. These are typically fiery beams, but may deal other types of elemental magic in variant specimens.
* FantasticRacism: Jabberwocks hate Universe dragons for unknown reasons, and a jabberwock that learns of a dragon's presence will obsess over killing it at the exclusion of all other priorities.
* AnIcePerson: Mimsy jabberwocks, native to cold locales, resist cold and project ColdFlames from their eyes, instead of the regular kind.
* AKindOfOne: Carroll's creature was, by what information the poem provides, a singular monster, and most adaptations of his works follow suit. ''Pathfinder'' treats its jabberwocks as an entire species of such monsters.
* MultipleHeadCase: Frumious jabberwocks have two heads, allowing to make an additional bite attack each turn.
* PublicDomainCharacter: They are lifted directly from the poem "Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}".
* UndergroundMonkey:
** 1st edition describes lesser jabberwocks, weaker variants of the mightier original strain, and notes that jabberwocks who manifest in extreme environments often come to reflect their environs in some manner -- a jabberwock native to a frozen world might have icy EyeBeams and an immunity to cold, for instance, while one from a storm-lashed world might have electric beams and be immune to electricity itself.
** 2nd edition describes three jabberwock variants -- two-headed frumious jabberwocks, mimsy jabberwocks that wield ice instead of flame, and aquatic slithy jabberwocks.
* WeaponOfXSlaying: Jabberwocks are strangely vulnerable against vorpal weapons.
* WindFromBeneathMyWings: Jabberwocks can create powerful buffeting winds by beating their wings.
[[/folder]]

!!Level 24
[[folder:Elder Wyrm]]
->'''Level:''' 24
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Colossal
----
* {{Combos}}: If an elder wyrm uses both breath weapons simultaneously, the electrical charge causes the poison gas to explode in a deflagration.
* HunterOfMonsters: An elder wyrm's bite and rend attacks deal additional damage to creatures with mythic tiers or the mythic subtype.
* JudgeJuryAndExecutioner: Elder wyrms have a flexible but insistent sense of justice instilled in them by their divine mandate, and often act as the judge, jury and executioner of mighty foes.
* MultipleHeadCase: An elder wyrm has two heads which work in perfect concert when making attacks, snaking apart to strike targets from opposite directions. Each head can think independently and seamlessly share control of the body, although they sometimes bicker with each other if they don't see eye to eye on something.
* PoisonousPerson: One of an elder wyrm's breath weapons is a cone of caustic gas.
* ShockAndAwe: One of an elder wyrm's breath weapons is a lightning bolt.
* TalkingToThemself: Often an elder wyrm's two heads' personalities diverge, leading to good-natured bickering and debate between the two.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: An elder wyrm has six legs and two wings.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guardian Dragon]]
->'''Level:''' 24
->'''Mythic Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan
----
* TheMaze: A guardian dragon can create a labyrinthine extradimensional lair for itself and whatever it is guarding, and usually proceeds to fill this demiplane with a maze of corridors (most of which are large enough for it to move through) to confuse and delay would-be thieves.
* TrackingSpell: A guardian dragon's magic allows it to find any creature at any distance, and it is relentless in pursuit of its lost items.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Shen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_shen.jpg]]
->'''Level:''' 24
->'''Mythic Rating:''' 9
->'''Alignment:''' TrueNeutral
->'''Size:''' Gargantuan

Powerful and mysterious relatives of the imperial dragons, shen are benevolent but proud, and can swiftly turn against those they previously help if the believe themselves to have been insulted.
----
* HealThyself: Shen can turn themselves into pearls with one use of mythic power, at which point they steadily regain hp until they return to full health.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The can turn into clams, pheasants, swallows, giant pearls or clouds of gas at will.
* WeatherManipulation: Shen can control rain and wind, and are known to bring rains during droughts out of pity for the afflicted.
[[/folder]]

* SeaMonster: Dragon turtles live in oceans and rank among the most dangerous threats to sailors.

* StrongerWithAge: Many of a true dragon's abilities, attacks and other statistics improve as it grows older.

!True Dragon Septs

[[folder:Chromatic Dragon]]

What the hell kind of Fantasy RPG doesn't have evil dragons for you to slay? The really lame kind, that's what. These dark, treasure hoarding beasts are everything that Humanoids fear Dragons are: terribly powerful, [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever massive]], [[AlwaysChaoticEvil cruel]], [[TimeAbyss long-lived]] and [[GeniusBruiser intelligent]].

* ChromaticArrangement: Reds, blues, and greens are referred to as the greater chromatics, feared and respected more than the relatively simplistic blacks and whites.
* HeelFaceTurn: Rarely, a chromatic dragon will forsake its evil ways in an event dragons refer to as a "redeeming".
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Red, unsurprisingly, is the distinctive color of the strongest variety of chromatics, and white of the weakest.
* MascotVillain: A red dragon decorates the cover of the original Core Rulebook, with a white dragon taking its place for Second Edition.

!!Black Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_black_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Hatred drives them like a barbed whip, pushing them ever forward to wallow in the toils of sadism and evil."]]
->'''Level:''' 3-19
->'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil
->'''Size:''' Tiny to Gargantuan

Vicious sociopaths, black dragons hate with a fury few other dragons bother to muster. With short tempers and cunning minds, they combine the worst parts of dragonkind into a creature that enjoys scarring bodies as much as they do shattering minds.

* AcidAttack: Their BreathWeapon is a gout of acid and older black dragons deal additional acid damage with their bite.
* AcidPool: Older specimens can create one using their breath.
* TheBeastmaster: Great wyrms can use Charm Reptiles to control all reptilian creatures in their domain, from lizards to crocodiles.
* DarkIsEvil: The cruelest of the chromatics with pitch black scales and the ability to create magical darkness.
* FisherKing: Between their habit of overhunting, their willingness to liberally douse anything around them with acid, and the fact that they stagnate water with a touch, a black dragon's swamp tends to be a terrible place to visit.
* GreenThumb: Once they're old, they get ''plant growth'' as a spell-like ability.
* HornsOfVillainy: Like most dragons they have horns, but some of them take it a step further than most by breaking their own horns and cause them to heal incorrectly into jagged angles and jutting shards, solely for the sake of looking more intimidating.
* ItAmusedMe: When a black dragons slaughters a village, tortures someone for days, or eats a baby, this is almost always their motivation.
* MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning: The sadism of a black dragon does not end with their death and most who manage to slay one find themselves beset by all manner of contingency plans.
* NoSell: Immune to acid in addition to typical draconic immunities.
* PestController: At ancient age, they get ''insect plague'' as a spell like ability.
* PoisonousPerson: Once they become adults, they gain the ability to stagnate water with a touch.
* {{Sadist}}: Black dragons tend to be highly sadistic, and take immense pleasure from capturing humanoid prisoners, imprisoning them in their lairs and subjecting them to whichever torments they can devise; they are particularly fond of inflicting disfiguring scars and injuries on their victims, especially those who are particularly beautiful.
* ScarsAreForever: The scars their acid leaves are permeant, defying most healing magic.
* SelfHarm: That practice of breaking their own horns mentioned above? Explicitly mentioned to hurt a ''lot''.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: All black dragons older than young can speak with reptiles.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: All black dragons can breathe water.
* SwampsAreEvil: These vicious, aggressive and foul-tempered dragons prefer to make their home is swamps. A joke among dracologists is that they live in swamps because no other terrain would take them, though woe be the one who repeats that joke to a black dragon.
* TortureTechnician: Of all the chromatic dragons, black dragons [[{{Sadist}} tend to be the most fond of]] ColdBloodedTorture. Various uses of their acidic breath and saliva are a recurring theme, but water torture of different sorts is also a favorite.
* ToServeMan: They prefer meals that can beg for mercy, because of course they do given the rest of their tropes.

!!Blue Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_blue_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"You will most likely never meet the blue dragon manipulating your lives."]]
->'''Level:''' 5-21
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

The masterminds of the chromatic dragons, controlling networks of spies, operatives, and sometimes entire countries from behind the scenes. They're driven by a need for control, both over others through their manipulations and themselves through strict personal discipline.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: They are quite a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons version. due to their [[VisualPun electric blue]] and gold coloring, and their more sleek an elegant shape.
* AffablyEvil: They certainly are the most talkative of the Chromatics, even if only for the sake of giving a HannibalLecture.
* DeadlyDustStorm: Great wyrms can create sandstorms at will, great to cover up an escape or an attack.
* EatDirtCheap: Blues can obtain a small amount of nutrition from minerals in rocks, and when particularly starved they will swim through areas of nutrient-rich sand and allow grains to filters through their teeth.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Blue dragons are responsible for more half-dragons and dragon-blooded beings than all other true dragons combined, although they often do this by magically altering other creatures rather than traditional mating.
* ManBehindTheMan: Their modus operandi. They're perfectly content ruling for centuries without their names ever being known, allowing them to pull all sorts of strings without being hindered by their ego.
* MasterOfIllusion: Fitting given their love of manipulation. Old blue dragons can create illusionary duplicates of themselves, and all their spell-like abilities they get with age are from the illusion school.
* MeatVersusVeggies: Firmly on the side of meat. They refuse to eat plants under any circumstances, considering it the food of cattle and lesser beasts.
* PragmaticVillainy: They're all too happy to simply wait for their antagonists to die of old age, taking the minimum of effort to keep such pests from disrupting their plans in the meantime.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Under ''no'' circumstances does a blue dragon simply set out to do things themselves after being failed by their underlings. Even those who actively hunt them down don't warrant personal attention.
* SandWorm: They habitually swim through the desert sands, both to avoid notice and for relaxation. Their sleek, streamlined shapes and smooth, tightly layered scales help them move through this dense medium. In turn, these sand swims ensure that the profusions of hornlets, bony growths, spurs and ridges that most dragons grow as they age don't break up the profiles of the blues, as such outgrowths are quickly ground away by friction with the sand.
* ShockAndAwe: Their BreathWeapon is a line of electricity, and ancient and powerful blue dragons can use it to generate full-out storms. In addition, adult and older blue dragons are surrounded by an electrified aura that damages those close to them.
* TheSocialExpert: A requisite when one manages hundreds of operatives over the course of centuries.
* TheSpymaster: Blues often control extensive webs of contacts, spies and agents that they use to keep tabs on and direct the affairs of other species' cultures without revealing themselves to either the humanoids they manipulate or to other dragons.
* TheStoic: Taciturn and joyless, even by the standards of chromatics.
* ThirstyDesert: Their typical habitat. In addition, they can dry out liquids within a certain range, including potions.
* {{Troll}}: They very much prefer [[ManipulativeBastard mind-games and manipulation]] to brute force.
* TunnelKing: Blues are capable of burrowing through sand and soil, an ability which shapes their lairs, plans, and general behavior.
* VillainousVirtues: Blues strive for discipline and self-control in all situations, though their lack of instinctual predilection it means they have a tendency to snap from the tension every few centuries. They're also suprisingly humble, happy to go without recognition from their unwitting subjects their whole lives.
* VoiceChangeling: Almost from birth, blue dragons can perfectly mimic voices and sounds.

!!Green Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pathfinder_green_dragon.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"Greens are obsessed with perfecting their minds and bodies, and exceed even the learned bronzes in scholarship and study."]]
->'''Level:''' 4-20
->'''Alignment:''' LawfulEvil
->'''Size:''' Small to Colossal

Green dragons seek mastery over everything, including their own minds and base desires. This makes them the most intellectual chromatics, focused on improving their minds through research and scholarship. But despite their more reasonable temperaments, they are still dragons and remain as capable of cruelty as the most vicious red if properly motivated.