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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 7853380" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>Catastrophe Dragons</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Avalanche: The elementals of 4th edition were not as clear-cut as those of the <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Great_Wheel" target="_blank">Great Wheel</a>. Thus, the existence of the Avalanche Dragons, born of equal parts dragon, earth and air. These dragons have are among the more "ambiguously featured" Catastrophics, appearing more as a draconic outline within a fast-descending cloud of dust and flying boulders than as anything as solid as their Earthquake Dragon cousins. The dragons who became the children of the avalanche were a unique splinter-faction of those dragons disheartened by Io's death. Implicitly driven insane by the experience, they came to despise death itself, and during their wanderings, they fell into the company of Athuam the Falling Sky. Having himself recently been bested by <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nerull" target="_blank">Nerull</a>, the Primordial saw useful tools in these pitiful wretches, and filled their heads with the idea that if death itself could be destroyed, than that would revive Io. Feasting on Athuam's muddy blood, the transformed Avalanche Dragons swore to destroy Nerull. Though most of them perished or were imprisoned alongside Athuam when they fought Nerull in Pluton, enough escaped to propagate the breed. It perhaps goes without saying that Avalanche Dragons have developed a deep, abiding, near-instinctual hatred for <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Undead" target="_blank">undead</a> and the <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Necromancer" target="_blank">necromancers</a> who create them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blizzard: The dragons that became the Blizzard Dragons sought the aid of Umboras, Lord of the Rimefire. Imprisoning them in icy tombs in the deepest, coldest parts of the Elemental Chaos, Umboras held them in thrall for a year and a day, finally allowing them to claw their way free transformed into creatures as cold as himself. The Blizzard Dragons served their master loyally, until <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Raven_Queen" target="_blank">the Raven Queen</a> claimed the mantle of Goddes of Winter from Khala. Incensed that a mortal-turned-goddess was daring to claim dominion over what he saw as his own possession, Umboras led them in an assault on Letherna, only to be duped and led by the Raven Queen to Pandemonium. There, she seperated him from his draconic allies and ultimately imprisoned him. Whilst some Blizzard Dragons still search the endless wind-chilled tunnels of Pandemonium for their master, most have scattered across the planes. They are surprisingly common in the <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Feywild" target="_blank">Feywild</a>, where they are often allies of convenience with fey of the Winter Court. In fact, Blizzard Dragons are actually amongst the most sociable of their kind, and readily form alliances with those whose hearts are similarly cold and tyrannical.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Earthquake: The Earthquake Dragon is a predator of cities, favoring going after urban environments. They pick off mortals for sport and food, causing subsidences and collapses, before ultimately rising for the feast and devastating the entire city with their command over earth and stone. They like to lounge around in the ruins for a while, but inevitably they grow bored and move on, seeking a new city to crush to the ground. Earthquake Dragons sought aid from the Primordial Balcoth, also known as the Groaning King, master of stone and magma. The titanic lava-creature responded by devouring his supplicants whole, vomiting forth those who remained loyal after they finished petrifying in the burning furnace of his stomach, with the remainders escaping after <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Bane" target="_blank">Bane</a> chopped off his head.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tornado: The supreme aerial predators of dragon-kind, Tornado Dragons descend from renegade dragons who made the mistake of falling into the clutches of Yan-C-Bin, who manipulated and dominated them until they became creatures of living storm-cloud, weapons he hoped to use to defeat his foes and free his master, Mual-Tar the Thunder Serpent. That plan was ended when a mighty horde of metallic dragons, led by Bahamut and his seven exarches, shattered Yan-C-Bin's army and scattered its survivors across the wilderness regions of the world.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Typhoon: Unique amongst their kin, Typhoon Dragons are born of elemental water and lightning, taking the form of dragon-shaped waves of water, surrounded by storm clouds and violent winds. Unlike most Catastrophic Dragons, these ones did not deliberately seek out the allegiance of a Primordial - at least, not at first. Initially, these dragons were renegades, who claimed dominion over the oceans and attacked whoever they saw fit, reveling in the freedom they felt after the death of their creator. When <a href="https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Melora" target="_blank">Melora</a> began to exert dominance over the ocean, they panicked and sought power to repel her. One Primordial, Solkara the Crushing Wave, took advantage of them; she dragged them beneath the waves, until even draconic flesh and bone were crushed to powder, then hurled their souls aloft to catch in the storm-wracked skies above the seas.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Volcanic: Even amongst the Catastropic Dragons, Volcanic Dragons are considered some of the nastiest. Foul-tempered, cruel, hateful and ambitious, they share an appetite for destruction equal to that of the Earthquake Dragons, and although they try to come up with excuses of pursuing loftier goals, in the end, it all boils down to one truth: All things burn. And nothing burns more sweetly than flesh.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wildfire: In a way, Wildfire Dragons may be the most pitiable of their kind, for they did not seek to become what they are now. When Io perished, many Red and Gold Dragons flew into an insane rage and pursued Erek-Hus in vengeance. Afraid that these powerful, fiery drakes would eventually be the end of him, Erek-Hus forged an allegiance with Imix, who had long yearned for authority over all dragons of flame. Blinded by their hate, the vengeful dragons followed Erek-Hus into a portal to Imix's realm. Trapped there, the Fire Lord turned their own fire against them, burning away their flesh until only serpentine forms of smoke, cinder and flame remained. However, even this could not bend them to his will, and so the outraged Imix flung them back into the mortal world.</li> </ul><p>I’m going to stop putting in descriptions of dragons BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY. Like this is insane.</p><p></p><p>3e Planar Dragons: Adamantite, Arboreal, Astral, Axial, Battle, Beast, Chaos, Chole, Concordant, Elysian, Ethereal, Gloom, Hellfire Wyrm, Howling, Oceanus, Pyroclastic, Radiant, Rust, Styx, Tarterian.</p><p></p><p>4e Planar Dragons: Abyssal, Astral, Elemental, Feywild, Shadowfell.</p><p></p><p>Oriental: Yu Lung (Carp Dragon), Li Lung (Earth Dragon), Lung Wang (Sea Dragon), Shen Lung (Spirit Dragon), Pan Lung (Coiled Dragon), T'ien Lung (Celestial Dragon), Chiang Lung (River Dragon), Tun Mi Lung (Typhoon Dragon).</p><p></p><p>Dragonets: Firedrake, Crow’s Nest, Geyser, Mole, Pavilion</p><p></p><p>Linnorm: Corpse Tearer Linnorm, Dread Linnorm, Flame Linnorm, Forest Linnorm, Frost Linnorm, Gray Linnorm, Land Linnorm, Midgard Linnorm, Rain Linnorm, Sea Linnorm</p><p></p><p>Song Dragons, or Weredragons</p><p></p><p>Epic Dragons: Force, Prismatic, Time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 7853380, member: 7015558"] Catastrophe Dragons [LIST] [*]Avalanche: The elementals of 4th edition were not as clear-cut as those of the [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Great_Wheel']Great Wheel[/URL]. Thus, the existence of the Avalanche Dragons, born of equal parts dragon, earth and air. These dragons have are among the more "ambiguously featured" Catastrophics, appearing more as a draconic outline within a fast-descending cloud of dust and flying boulders than as anything as solid as their Earthquake Dragon cousins. The dragons who became the children of the avalanche were a unique splinter-faction of those dragons disheartened by Io's death. Implicitly driven insane by the experience, they came to despise death itself, and during their wanderings, they fell into the company of Athuam the Falling Sky. Having himself recently been bested by [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nerull']Nerull[/URL], the Primordial saw useful tools in these pitiful wretches, and filled their heads with the idea that if death itself could be destroyed, than that would revive Io. Feasting on Athuam's muddy blood, the transformed Avalanche Dragons swore to destroy Nerull. Though most of them perished or were imprisoned alongside Athuam when they fought Nerull in Pluton, enough escaped to propagate the breed. It perhaps goes without saying that Avalanche Dragons have developed a deep, abiding, near-instinctual hatred for [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Undead']undead[/URL] and the [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Necromancer']necromancers[/URL] who create them. [*]Blizzard: The dragons that became the Blizzard Dragons sought the aid of Umboras, Lord of the Rimefire. Imprisoning them in icy tombs in the deepest, coldest parts of the Elemental Chaos, Umboras held them in thrall for a year and a day, finally allowing them to claw their way free transformed into creatures as cold as himself. The Blizzard Dragons served their master loyally, until [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Raven_Queen']the Raven Queen[/URL] claimed the mantle of Goddes of Winter from Khala. Incensed that a mortal-turned-goddess was daring to claim dominion over what he saw as his own possession, Umboras led them in an assault on Letherna, only to be duped and led by the Raven Queen to Pandemonium. There, she seperated him from his draconic allies and ultimately imprisoned him. Whilst some Blizzard Dragons still search the endless wind-chilled tunnels of Pandemonium for their master, most have scattered across the planes. They are surprisingly common in the [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Feywild']Feywild[/URL], where they are often allies of convenience with fey of the Winter Court. In fact, Blizzard Dragons are actually amongst the most sociable of their kind, and readily form alliances with those whose hearts are similarly cold and tyrannical. [*]Earthquake: The Earthquake Dragon is a predator of cities, favoring going after urban environments. They pick off mortals for sport and food, causing subsidences and collapses, before ultimately rising for the feast and devastating the entire city with their command over earth and stone. They like to lounge around in the ruins for a while, but inevitably they grow bored and move on, seeking a new city to crush to the ground. Earthquake Dragons sought aid from the Primordial Balcoth, also known as the Groaning King, master of stone and magma. The titanic lava-creature responded by devouring his supplicants whole, vomiting forth those who remained loyal after they finished petrifying in the burning furnace of his stomach, with the remainders escaping after [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Bane']Bane[/URL] chopped off his head. [*]Tornado: The supreme aerial predators of dragon-kind, Tornado Dragons descend from renegade dragons who made the mistake of falling into the clutches of Yan-C-Bin, who manipulated and dominated them until they became creatures of living storm-cloud, weapons he hoped to use to defeat his foes and free his master, Mual-Tar the Thunder Serpent. That plan was ended when a mighty horde of metallic dragons, led by Bahamut and his seven exarches, shattered Yan-C-Bin's army and scattered its survivors across the wilderness regions of the world. [*]Typhoon: Unique amongst their kin, Typhoon Dragons are born of elemental water and lightning, taking the form of dragon-shaped waves of water, surrounded by storm clouds and violent winds. Unlike most Catastrophic Dragons, these ones did not deliberately seek out the allegiance of a Primordial - at least, not at first. Initially, these dragons were renegades, who claimed dominion over the oceans and attacked whoever they saw fit, reveling in the freedom they felt after the death of their creator. When [URL='https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Melora']Melora[/URL] began to exert dominance over the ocean, they panicked and sought power to repel her. One Primordial, Solkara the Crushing Wave, took advantage of them; she dragged them beneath the waves, until even draconic flesh and bone were crushed to powder, then hurled their souls aloft to catch in the storm-wracked skies above the seas. [*] Volcanic: Even amongst the Catastropic Dragons, Volcanic Dragons are considered some of the nastiest. Foul-tempered, cruel, hateful and ambitious, they share an appetite for destruction equal to that of the Earthquake Dragons, and although they try to come up with excuses of pursuing loftier goals, in the end, it all boils down to one truth: All things burn. And nothing burns more sweetly than flesh. [*]Wildfire: In a way, Wildfire Dragons may be the most pitiable of their kind, for they did not seek to become what they are now. When Io perished, many Red and Gold Dragons flew into an insane rage and pursued Erek-Hus in vengeance. Afraid that these powerful, fiery drakes would eventually be the end of him, Erek-Hus forged an allegiance with Imix, who had long yearned for authority over all dragons of flame. Blinded by their hate, the vengeful dragons followed Erek-Hus into a portal to Imix's realm. Trapped there, the Fire Lord turned their own fire against them, burning away their flesh until only serpentine forms of smoke, cinder and flame remained. However, even this could not bend them to his will, and so the outraged Imix flung them back into the mortal world. [/LIST] I’m going to stop putting in descriptions of dragons BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY. Like this is insane. 3e Planar Dragons: Adamantite, Arboreal, Astral, Axial, Battle, Beast, Chaos, Chole, Concordant, Elysian, Ethereal, Gloom, Hellfire Wyrm, Howling, Oceanus, Pyroclastic, Radiant, Rust, Styx, Tarterian. 4e Planar Dragons: Abyssal, Astral, Elemental, Feywild, Shadowfell. Oriental: Yu Lung (Carp Dragon), Li Lung (Earth Dragon), Lung Wang (Sea Dragon), Shen Lung (Spirit Dragon), Pan Lung (Coiled Dragon), T'ien Lung (Celestial Dragon), Chiang Lung (River Dragon), Tun Mi Lung (Typhoon Dragon). Dragonets: Firedrake, Crow’s Nest, Geyser, Mole, Pavilion Linnorm: Corpse Tearer Linnorm, Dread Linnorm, Flame Linnorm, Forest Linnorm, Frost Linnorm, Gray Linnorm, Land Linnorm, Midgard Linnorm, Rain Linnorm, Sea Linnorm Song Dragons, or Weredragons Epic Dragons: Force, Prismatic, Time. [/QUOTE]
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