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%%* ChaoticNeutral: Dorn, InUniverse.

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%%* * ChaoticNeutral: Dorn, InUniverse.InUniverse, according to supplementary material.



%%* TheDragonslayer: The specialty of Dorn et al.

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%%* * TheDragonslayer: The specialty of Dorn et al.and his group are professional dragon hunters. Dorn hates dragons due to a red dragon attack on his birth family; the others are OnlyInItForTheMoney.



* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They either don't realize or don't want to know that [[spoiler:Sammaster has managed to make it permanent]]. Notably, not all the metallics agree with this: the ChaoticGood ones (e.g. copper and song) want to actually stop it but are being overruled by the LawfulStupid gold and silver dragons.

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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They either don't realize or don't want to know that [[spoiler:Sammaster has managed to make it permanent]]. Notably, not all the metallics agree with this: the ChaoticGood ChaoticGood[[invoked]] ones (e.g. copper and song) want to actually stop it but are being overruled by the LawfulStupid gold and silver dragons.



* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, is classed as a ranger instead of a fighter, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.

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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, is sunbathing. He's also classed as a ranger instead of a fighter, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.



%%* ShoulderSizedDragon: Jivex.

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%%* * ShoulderSizedDragon: Jivex.Jivex is a faerie dragon, about the size of a dog with butterfly-like wings.
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* ThreadOfProphecySevered: Sammaster and his Cult of the Dragon are trying to forcibly fulfill a prophecy that (according to his translation) undead dragons will come to rule all of Toril. The protagonists are trying to prevent this.
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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The group joins forces with a smoke drake vampire left over from Sammaster's previous attempt at creating undead dragons. He doesn't feed on humans, but that's mostly because they don't have enough blood to sustain a vampire his size (one scene in ''The Ruin'' has him drain a [[http://kahdnd.pbworks.com/w/page/5589013/Tarterian%20Dragon Tarterian dragon]] and complain in his InternalMonologue that the blood tastes bad).

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The group joins forces with a smoke drake vampire left over from Sammaster's previous attempt at creating undead dragons. He doesn't feed on humans, but that's mostly because they don't have enough blood to sustain a vampire his size (one scene in ''The Ruin'' has him drain a [[http://kahdnd.pbworks.com/w/page/5589013/Tarterian%20Dragon Tarterian dragon]] dragon and complain in his InternalMonologue that the blood tastes bad).

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* ArtificialLimbs: Dorn is half iron golem.

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* %%* ArtificialLimbs: Dorn is half iron golem.%%And?



* TheBigGuy:
** Dorn, who can use his effectively indestructible iron golem half to tank incoming attacks.
** Kara, being a dragon, turns into one of the most powerful and destructive creatures alive when she switches to her true form.



* ChaoticNeutral: Dorn, InUniverse.

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* %%* ChaoticNeutral: Dorn, InUniverse.InUniverse.
%%* TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least.%%How is she the Chick?



* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him (in a manner of speaking -- he thinks he is fulfilling a prophecy about dead dragons ruling the world, but [[spoiler: Sammaster]] is the only one that knows why he thinks fulfilling the prophecy is a ''good'' idea, except maybe to spite the proponents of the standard translation that insists the translation's supposed to be about dragons ruling the world and he stuffed up his translation).
* TheDragonslayer: The specialty of Dorn et al.

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* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're -- dracoliches are immune to the Rage).Rage. Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him (in a manner of speaking -- he thinks he is fulfilling a prophecy about dead dragons ruling the world, but [[spoiler: Sammaster]] is the only one that knows why he thinks fulfilling the prophecy is a ''good'' idea, except maybe to spite the proponents of the standard translation that insists the translation's supposed to be about dragons ruling the world and he stuffed up his translation).
* %%* TheDragonslayer: The specialty of Dorn et al.



* TheFaceless: The wizard Scattercloak always wears a hooded cloak, veil and gloves, and never takes them off even at meals (he'll sit at the table, but he goes somewhere private to actually eat). He even masks his voice, speaking in an androgynous, accentless, possibly synthetic monotone. It's never revealed why he does it--it could all be pure affectation for all anyone knows.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Dorn. Doubles as TheBigGuy, given he's learned to use his effectively indestructible golem half to tank incoming attacks.
** TheLancer: Will.
** TheSmartGuy: Pavel.
** TheBigGuy: Raryn and Dorn.
** TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least. Being a dragon, she turns into TheBigGuy in her true form.
** TheSixthRanger: Taegan.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They either don't realize or don't want to know that [[spoiler:Sammaster has managed to make it permanent]]. Notably not all the metallics agree with this: the ChaoticGood ones (e.g. copper and song) want to actually stop it but are being overruled by the LawfulStupid gold and silver dragons.

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* TheFaceless: The wizard Scattercloak always wears a hooded cloak, veil and gloves, and never takes them off even at meals (he'll sit at the table, but he goes somewhere private to actually eat). He even masks his voice, speaking in an androgynous, accentless, possibly synthetic monotone. It's never revealed why he does it--it it -- it could all be pure affectation for all anyone knows.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Dorn. Doubles as TheBigGuy, given he's learned to use his effectively indestructible golem half to tank incoming attacks.
** TheLancer: Will.
** TheSmartGuy: Pavel.
** TheBigGuy: Raryn and Dorn.
** TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least. Being a dragon, she turns into TheBigGuy in her true form.
** TheSixthRanger: Taegan.
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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They either don't realize or don't want to know that [[spoiler:Sammaster has managed to make it permanent]]. Notably Notably, not all the metallics agree with this: the ChaoticGood ones (e.g. copper and song) want to actually stop it but are being overruled by the LawfulStupid gold and silver dragons.dragons.
%%* TheHero: Dorn.



* {{Irony}}: Dorn lost his arm and leg because a red dragon bit them off when he was a kid; the combination of this, the trauma of having iron golem limb replacements fused to his body, and being forced to fight in the arena for his master's sake, is what made him become a dragon hunter by trade. He ends up, as noted above, in love with a female dragon.

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* {{Irony}}: Dorn lost his arm and leg because a red dragon bit them off when he was a kid; the combination of this, the trauma of having iron golem limb replacements fused to his body, and being forced to fight in the arena for his master's sake, sake is what made him become a dragon hunter by trade. He ends up, as noted above, up in love with a female dragon.



%%* TheLancer: Will.



* LovableRogue: Will

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* ShoulderSizedDragon: Jivex.

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* %%* ShoulderSizedDragon: Jivex.Jivex.
%%* TheSixthRanger: Taegan.
%%* TheSmartGuy: Pavel.



* TeamMom: Kara.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When Brimstone joins them.

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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They seem not to realize that Sammaster has managed to

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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They seem not to either don't realize or don't want to know that Sammaster [[spoiler:Sammaster has managed to make it permanent]]. Notably not all the metallics agree with this: the ChaoticGood ones (e.g. copper and song) want to actually stop it but are being overruled by the LawfulStupid gold and silver dragons.

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* HeadInTheSandManagement: The good-aligned metallic dragons' solution to the Rage is to put themselves into stasis until it passes. They seem not to realize that Sammaster has managed to



* NeglectfulPrecursors: In fairness to the ancient elves who created the [[spoiler:Dracorage Mythal]], they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that [[spoiler:somebody roughly 15,000 years later would figure out how to modify the mythal.]]

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* NeglectfulPrecursors: In fairness to The Dracorage Mythal was created by the ancient elves who created elven kingdoms to win their war with the [[spoiler:Dracorage Mythal]], they probably never expected dragons for control of Toril. Unfortunately, hundreds or thousands of years later their own civilization fell apart in a period of CivilWar called the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that [[spoiler:somebody roughly 15,000 years later would figure out how to modify (set off in part by Lolth's betrayal of the mythal.elven TopGod Corellon Larethian, which led in turn to the dark elven race becoming the modern drow), which allowed humans to become the dominant species of Toril but also left the Dracorage Mythal a PointlessDoomsdayDevice. [[spoiler:Then Sammaster found the mythal's core and modified it.]]



* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, is classed as a ranger instead of a fighter, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.

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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, is classed as a ranger instead of a fighter, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.

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*TheFaceless: The wizard Scattercloak always wears a hooded cloak, veil and gloves, and never takes them off even at meals (he'll sit at the table, but he goes somewhere private to actually eat). He even masks his voice, speaking in an androgynous, accentless, possibly synthetic monotone. It's never revealed why he does it--it could all be pure affectation for all anyone knows.



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pavel gives his life to destroy Sammaster's phylactery and with it the Dracorage Mythal.]]

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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pavel HeroicSacrifice:
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**Havarlan gives her life to ram Sammaster's heavily warded fighting tower in order to knock him out of it.



* LightIsGood: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander, the NeutralGood [[invoked]] god of the dawn.

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* LightIsGood: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander, the NeutralGood [[invoked]] god of the dawn.



** Especially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).

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** Especially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).



* OurLichesAreDifferent: Besides the previously mentioned dracoliches, Sammaster is a lich who uses transmutation magic to pass for a mortal.

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* OurLichesAreDifferent: Besides the previously mentioned dracoliches, Sammaster is a lich who uses transmutation illusion magic to pass for a mortal.



* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers, the team's wizard.

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* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers, the team's wizard.unofficial leader of the Thentian wizards.

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* EvilFeelsGood: The Rage actually feels good when dragons stop resisting it. Kara's resisting it so much while she seems to crave for it speaks gallons about how heroic she is.

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* EvilFeelsGood: The Rage actually feels good when dragons stop resisting it. Kara's resisting it so much while she seems to crave for it speaks gallons about how heroic she is.



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Pavel gives his life to destroy Sammaster's phylactery and with it the Dracorage Mythal.]]



* {{Irony}}: Dorn lost his arm and leg because a red dragon bit them off when he was a kid; the combination of this, the trauma of having iron golem limb replacements fused, and being forced to fight in the arena for his master's sake, is what made him become a dragon hunter by trade. He ends up, as noted above, in love with a female dragon.

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* {{Irony}}: Dorn lost his arm and leg because a red dragon bit them off when he was a kid; the combination of this, the trauma of having iron golem limb replacements fused, fused to his body, and being forced to fight in the arena for his master's sake, is what made him become a dragon hunter by trade. He ends up, as noted above, in love with a female dragon.
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** TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least.

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** TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least. Being a dragon, she turns into TheBigGuy in her true form.



* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.

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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, is classed as a ranger instead of a fighter, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.



* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The group joins forces with a smoke drake vampire left over from Sammaster's previous attempt at creating undead dragons.

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* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The group joins forces with a smoke drake vampire left over from Sammaster's previous attempt at creating undead dragons. He doesn't feed on humans, but that's mostly because they don't have enough blood to sustain a vampire his size (one scene in ''The Ruin'' has him drain a [[http://kahdnd.pbworks.com/w/page/5589013/Tarterian%20Dragon Tarterian dragon]] and complain in his InternalMonologue that the blood tastes bad).
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* LightIsGood: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander, the NeutralGood [[invoked]] god of the sun.

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* LightIsGood: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander, the NeutralGood [[invoked]] god of the sun.dawn.

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* CometOfDoom: Invoked in the backstory (the Dracorage is ''supposed'' to happen only when the King-Killer Star is in the sky -- an important plot point is that this time, it ''isn't''): [[spoiler: the elves who created the Dracorage Mythal keyed it to activate when a certain striking comet could be seen in Toril's sky]].

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* CometOfDoom: Invoked in the backstory (the in that the Dracorage is ''supposed'' to happen only when the King-Killer Star is in the sky -- an sky. An important plot point is that this time, it ''isn't''): ''isn't'': [[spoiler: the elves who created the Dracorage Mythal keyed it to activate when a certain striking comet could be seen in Toril's sky]].sky, but Sammaster has tampered with it]].
* {{Cyborg}}: As a half-golem, Dorn is a fantasy equivalent; armor plating on one side of his face, and an arm (with taloned fingers and possibly WolverineClaws) and leg both made of metal.



* EvilFeelsGood: The Rage actually feels good when dragons stop resisting it. Karas resisting it so much while she seems to crave for it speaks gallons about how heroic she is.

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* EvilFeelsGood: The Rage actually feels good when dragons stop resisting it. Karas Kara's resisting it so much while she seems to crave for it speaks gallons about how heroic she is.



* HollywoodCyborg: As a half-golem, Dorn is a fantasy equivalent; armor plating on one side of his face, and an arm (with taloned fingers and possibly WolverineClaws) and leg both made of metal.



* MagicAIsMagicA: Byers works very hard at keeping the rules of magic consistent with ''D&D'' gameplay.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:In fairness to the ancient elves who created the Dracorage Mythal, they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that somebody roughly 15,000 years later would figure out how to modify the mythal.]]

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* MagicAIsMagicA: Byers works very hard at keeping the rules of magic consistent with ''D&D'' gameplay.
gameplay. Spellcasters have to memorize their spells and only have a limited amount.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:In In fairness to the ancient elves who created the Dracorage Mythal, [[spoiler:Dracorage Mythal]], they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that somebody [[spoiler:somebody roughly 15,000 years later would figure out how to modify the mythal.]]



** More generally, Sammaster's forces include a bewildering assortment of the various dragons and dragon-like monsters in the ''D&D'' universe. Richard Lee Byers seems to have thrown darts at the 3rd Edition ''[[{{Splat}} Draconomicon]]'' and used whatever he hit.

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** More generally, Sammaster's forces include a bewildering assortment of the various dragons and dragon-like monsters in the ''D&D'' universe. Richard Lee Byers seems to have thrown darts at the 3rd Edition ''[[{{Splat}} Draconomicon]]'' ''Draconomicon'' and used whatever he hit.



* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King of Damara is a badass paladin. Deconstructed in that it nearly gets him killed.

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* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers.
Firefingers, the team's wizard.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King Gareth Dragonsbane of Damara is a badass paladin. Deconstructed in that it nearly gets him killed.

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* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him (in a manner of speaking -- he thinks he is fulfilling a prophecy about dead dragons ruling the world, but [[spoiler: Sammaster]] is the only one that knows why he thinks fulfilling the prophecy is a ''good'' idea except to spite the proponents of the standard translation that insists it's supposed to be dragons ruling the world).

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* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him (in a manner of speaking -- he thinks he is fulfilling a prophecy about dead dragons ruling the world, but [[spoiler: Sammaster]] is the only one that knows why he thinks fulfilling the prophecy is a ''good'' idea idea, except maybe to spite the proponents of the standard translation that insists it's the translation's supposed to be about dragons ruling the world).world and he stuffed up his translation).


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* HollywoodCyborg: As a half-golem, Dorn is a fantasy equivalent; armor plating on one side of his face, and an arm (with taloned fingers and possibly WolverineClaws) and leg both made of metal.


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* {{Irony}}: Dorn lost his arm and leg because a red dragon bit them off when he was a kid; the combination of this, the trauma of having iron golem limb replacements fused, and being forced to fight in the arena for his master's sake, is what made him become a dragon hunter by trade. He ends up, as noted above, in love with a female dragon.


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* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted. The main dwarf character is Raryn, an Arctic Dwarf, which means he's a white-haired dwarf who wears as little as possible by preference to facilitate his love of sunbathing, favors spears over axes, and knows absolutely nothing about stonework or dungeoneering because he grew up on the Arctic tundra.
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* TheDragonslayer: The specialty of Dorn et al.
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Well, if you're professional dragon hunter Dorn Graybrook, KillEmAll would seem to be the appropriate answer.

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Well, if you're professional dragon hunter Dorn Graybrook, KillEmAll would seem to be the appropriate answer.
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* CometOfDoom: Invoked in the backstory (the Dracorage is ''supposed'' to happen only when the King-Killer Star is in the sky -- an important plot point is that this time, it ''isn't''): [[spoiler: the elves who created the Dracorage Mythal keyed it to activate when a certain striking comet could be seen in Toril's sky]].

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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:During the final battle Dorn takes a BreathWeapon blast from a rust drake that renders his golem half nearly useless. He's able to work out an alternate fighting style.]]
* ChaoticGood: Kara, InUniverse. Song dragons are relatives of metallic dragons and nearly always CG.



** TheHero: Dorn. Doubles as TheBigGuy, given he's learned to use his effectively indestructible golem half to tank blows.

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** TheHero: Dorn. Doubles as TheBigGuy, given he's learned to use his effectively indestructible golem half to tank blows.incoming attacks.



** The Smart Guy: Pavel.

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** The Smart Guy: TheSmartGuy: Pavel.
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* DeathByOriginStory: The reason Dorn hates dragons so much is that his parents were killed in a black dragon attack that also cost him half his body.

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* DeathByOriginStory: The reason Dorn hates dragons so much is that his parents were killed in a black red dragon attack that also cost him half his body.
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* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him.

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* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him.him (in a manner of speaking -- he thinks he is fulfilling a prophecy about dead dragons ruling the world, but [[spoiler: Sammaster]] is the only one that knows why he thinks fulfilling the prophecy is a ''good'' idea except to spite the proponents of the standard translation that insists it's supposed to be dragons ruling the world).
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* LightIsGood: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander, the NeutralGood [[invoked]] god of the sun.

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* BigBad: Sammaster

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* BigBad: SammasterSammaster, the magical equivalent of an EvilutionaryBiologist and convinced that undead dragons are superior to regular dragons.
* ChaoticNeutral: Dorn, InUniverse.
* DeathByOriginStory: The reason Dorn hates dragons so much is that his parents were killed in a black dragon attack that also cost him half his body.
* {{Dracolich}}: The entire point of [[spoiler:Sammaster's tampering with the Dracorage Mythal]] is to convince every dragon on Toril that becoming a dracolich is a good thing (they're immune to the Rage). Why he thought turning them into liches was a good idea is known only to him.



** TheHero: Dorn. The Lancer - Will. The Smart Guy - Pavel. The Big Guy - Raryn. The Chick - Kara. The Sixth Ranger - Taegan.

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** TheHero: Dorn. The Lancer - Will. Doubles as TheBigGuy, given he's learned to use his effectively indestructible golem half to tank blows.
** TheLancer: Will.
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The Smart Guy - Pavel. The Big Guy - Raryn. The Chick - Kara. The Sixth Ranger - Taegan.Guy: Pavel.
** TheBigGuy: Raryn and Dorn.
** TheChick: Kara, when she's in human form at least.
** TheSixthRanger: Taegan.
* InterspeciesRomance: Starting in book two, between Dorn, a human, and Kara, a song dragon.



* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:In fairness to the ancient elves who created the Dracorage Mythal, they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that somebody roughly twenty millennia later would figure out how to modify it.]]

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* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:In fairness to the ancient elves who created the Dracorage Mythal, they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that somebody roughly twenty millennia 15,000 years later would figure out how to modify it.the mythal.]]



** Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).

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** Specially Especially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic). magic).



* OurLichesAreDifferent: Besides the previously mentioned dracoliches, Sammaster is a lich who uses transmutation magic to pass for a mortal.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The group joins forces with a smoke drake vampire left over from Sammaster's previous attempt at creating undead dragons.



* VitriolicBestBuds: Pavel and Will.

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* VitriolicBestBuds: TurnUndead: Pavel is a cleric of Lathander and Will.has this as one of his class features and a ChekhovsSkill. He threatens the aforementioned vampire smoke drake with it on their first encounter. [[spoiler:At the end of the trilogy he uses it to destroy Sammaster's phylactery and the Dracorage Mythal at the cost of his own life.]]

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Nice alphabetization, OP.


''The Year of Rogue Dragons'' is a trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. It covers the calamitous events of 1373 DR, the "Year of Rogue Dragons". Set in the ForgottenRealms, it follows a group of adventurers as they wander Faerun trying to discover the secrets behind the Rage, when all of the Faerunian dragons go berserk.

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What do you do when every dragon on the planet starts to turn AxCrazy and threaten to kill everything else?

Well, if you're professional dragon hunter Dorn Graybrook, KillEmAll would seem to be the appropriate answer.

''The Year of Rogue Dragons'' is a trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. It covers the calamitous events of 1373 DR, the "Year of Rogue Dragons". Set in the ForgottenRealms, TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, it follows a group of adventurers as they wander Faerun trying to discover the secrets behind the Rage, when all of the Faerunian Faerûnian dragons go berserk.berserk.



* The Rage (April 2004)
* The Rite (January 2005)
* The Ruin (May 2006)

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* The Rage ''The Rage'' (April 2004)
* The Rite ''The Rite'' (January 2005)
* The Ruin ''The Ruin'' (May 2006) 2006)



* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).
** More generally, Sammaster's forces include a bewildering assortment of the various dragons and dragon-like monsters in the D&D universe.
* HeroesPreferSwords: Dorn and Taegan sure do.
* FiveManBand: The Hero - Dorn. The Lancer - Will. The Smart Guy - Pavel. The Big Guy - Raryn. The Chick - Kara. The Sixth Ranger - Taegan.
* TeamMom: Kara.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When Brimstone joins them.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King of Damara is a badass paladin.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Taegan. Every time he shows up, the scene is suddenly about him
* VitriolicBestBuds: Pavel and Will.
* MagicAIsMagicA: The way magic works in the setting.
* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers.
* MacGuffin: Sammaster's phylactery.
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Taegan when his spells are dispelled and Dorn when he loses his metal limbs.
* LovableRogue: Will
* KansasCityShuffle: Sammaster is a master of pulling this. Pretty much every challenge the heroes face is this, while Sammaster tries to prevent them from finding out the truth about the Rage.


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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Dorn. The Lancer - Will. The Smart Guy - Pavel. The Big Guy - Raryn. The Chick - Kara. The Sixth Ranger - Taegan.
* KansasCityShuffle: Sammaster is a master of pulling this. Pretty much every challenge the heroes face is this, while Sammaster tries to prevent them from finding out the truth about the Rage.
* LovableRogue: Will
* MagicAIsMagicA: Byers works very hard at keeping the rules of magic consistent with ''D&D'' gameplay.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: [[spoiler:In fairness to the ancient elves who created the Dracorage Mythal, they probably never expected the Crown Wars to totally destroy their civilization, or that somebody roughly twenty millennia later would figure out how to modify it.]]
* OurDragonsAreDifferent:
** Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).
** More generally, Sammaster's forces include a bewildering assortment of the various dragons and dragon-like monsters in the ''D&D'' universe. Richard Lee Byers seems to have thrown darts at the 3rd Edition ''[[{{Splat}} Draconomicon]]'' and used whatever he hit.
* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Taegan when his spells are dispelled and Dorn when he loses his metal limbs.
* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King of Damara is a badass paladin. Deconstructed in that it nearly gets him killed.


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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Taegan. Every time he shows up, the scene is suddenly about him.
* TeamMom: Kara.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When Brimstone joins them.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Pavel and Will.
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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time.

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* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time.time (though it is not a natural draconic trait, but rather something induced by ''extremely'' powerful globe-covering magic).
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** More generally, Sammaster's forces provide a bewildering tour of all the different dragons and dragon-like monsters in the D&D universe.

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** More **More generally, Sammaster's forces provide include a bewildering tour assortment of all the different various dragons and dragon-like monsters in the D&D universe.
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*VitriolicBestBuds: Will and Pavel, who refer to each other as "halfwit" and "charlatan" respectively.
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* ShoulderSizedDragon: Jivex.
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* PowerLossMakesYouStrong: Taegan when his spells are dispelled and Dorn when he loses his metal limbs.
* LovableRogue: Will
* KansasCityShuffle: Sammaster is a master of pulling this. Pretty much every challenge the heroes face is this, while Sammaster tries to prevent them from finding out the truth about the Rage.
* EvilFeelsGood: The Rage actually feels good when dragons stop resisting it. Karas resisting it so much while she seems to crave for it speaks gallons about how heroic she is.

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* HeroesUseSwords: Dorn and Taegan sure do.

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* HeroesUseSwords: HeroesPreferSwords: Dorn and Taegan sure do.


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* MagicAIsMagicA: The way magic works in the setting.
* PlayingWithFire: Firefingers.
* MacGuffin: Sammaster's phylactery.

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* ArtificialLimbs

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* ArtificialLimbsArtificialLimbs: Dorn is half iron golem.


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* HeroesUseSwords: Dorn and Taegan sure do.
* FiveManBand: The Hero - Dorn. The Lancer - Will. The Smart Guy - Pavel. The Big Guy - Raryn. The Chick - Kara. The Sixth Ranger - Taegan.
* TeamMom: Kara.
* TokenEvilTeammate: When Brimstone joins them.


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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Taegan. Every time he shows up, the scene is suddenly about him
* VitriolicBestBuds: Pavel and Will.
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''The Year of Rogue Dragons'' is a trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. It covers the calamitous events of 1373 DR, the "Year of Rogue Dragons". Set in the ForgottenRealms, it follows a group of adventurers as they wander Faerun trying to discover the secrets behind the Rage, when all of the Faerunian dragons go berserk.
It has three books:
* The Rage (April 2004)
* The Rite (January 2005)
* The Ruin (May 2006)
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!!Relevant tropes:
* ArtificialLimbs
* BigBad: Sammaster
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Specially the Rage, a murderous berserker eating instinct that overcomes all dragons from time to time.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The King of Damara is a badass paladin.
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