pukunui
Legend
Yeah, I’d much rather have the catastrophic dragons than the others, to be honest. I had hoped they’d be included in Fizban’s.I really like the idea of dragons as gods. But I’d work up a custom pantheon of dragon gods from across editions instead of trying to fit existing gods to a new paradigm.
The hard part is names and lore. But you don’t need much to get by. Start with the chromatics. Red: fire & greed. Blue: sky & lightning. Black: death & decay. Green: trickery & poison. White: winter & cold. And move down the list. Metallic. Etc. But you cannot forget the catastrophic dragons, though. Blizzard, earthquake, and volcanic.
I mean, metallic and gem dragons at least have an earthy, material world theme, which makes sense with the whole “dragons are innately tied to the Material Plane” thing. The chromatics are just a random assortment of colors. I suppose we could call them fire, ice, swamp, forest, and desert dragons instead. I’d want to change their colors, though.