So, dragons. I always like trying to do elemental theming with the different chromatic dragons, but i always tend to run into hiccups. Black, for instance, lives in swamps and breathes acid. What kind of element is that? Blue, for all that they're wind-coded, live in deserts. Don't get me started on poison.
But I had a shower-thought moment and realized something.
Red dragons live in active volcanoes. Magma
White dragons in icy tundras.
Black live in swamps, and oozes are the main source of acid monsters. They love forgotten ruins. Swamp of Oblivion is a great match. Also might explain how those lizardfolk end up as elementals - they been chillin' with some black dragons!
The Cinder Wastes make up faux-deserts in the plane of fire - earthward leads to mountains and volcanoes, wind-ward leads to the sea of fire and the plane of ash. If we swap out sand and sandstorms for cinders and ashstorms... its kind of a match for blue dragons. Okay, this one is kind of a stretch.
Green dragons are tied to forests and love picking on elves; their poison is resonant of the more vicious side of life's overabundance. And overabundant life is both a hallmark of the positive energy plane and the feywild.
Purple dragons, meanwhile, are actively tied to the Shadowfell, which ate the old Plane of Shadow and Negative Energy Plane.
So, while you can't quite tie the chromatics to the four elements, you can tie them to the four quasi-elements and the new versions of energy poles. Enough to pull off a story arc, anyways.
But I had a shower-thought moment and realized something.
Red dragons live in active volcanoes. Magma
White dragons in icy tundras.
Black live in swamps, and oozes are the main source of acid monsters. They love forgotten ruins. Swamp of Oblivion is a great match. Also might explain how those lizardfolk end up as elementals - they been chillin' with some black dragons!
The Cinder Wastes make up faux-deserts in the plane of fire - earthward leads to mountains and volcanoes, wind-ward leads to the sea of fire and the plane of ash. If we swap out sand and sandstorms for cinders and ashstorms... its kind of a match for blue dragons. Okay, this one is kind of a stretch.
Green dragons are tied to forests and love picking on elves; their poison is resonant of the more vicious side of life's overabundance. And overabundant life is both a hallmark of the positive energy plane and the feywild.
Purple dragons, meanwhile, are actively tied to the Shadowfell, which ate the old Plane of Shadow and Negative Energy Plane.
So, while you can't quite tie the chromatics to the four elements, you can tie them to the four quasi-elements and the new versions of energy poles. Enough to pull off a story arc, anyways.
