Famous Black Dragons

[TheAuldGrump]

Oo Long (Wayland Long) from R.A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon - pretty much a Gold Dragon that has been around long enough that his scales have darkened to black, spends the entirety of the book in human form.

Morkeleb the Black from Barbara Hambly's Dragonsbane. A very old dragon that has been caught by what amounts to an orb of dragonkind.

The Auld Grump

 

[Joshua Randall]

Aulicus
In forgotten barrows in a lonely swamp lurks a vampiric lizardfolk whose grasp on power is aided and abetted by the black dragon Aulicus. This black dragon appears in the adventure I2: Tomb of the Lizard King.

This is who I thought of as soon as I saw this thread. That entire module is amazing.

Yeah, I was about to say this. Dragons that spit acid--or, really, anything other than fire--are fairly rare outside D&D and its derivatives.

True.

I believe that the dragons in Reign of Fire (the crappy movie with Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale) are acid-spitters.

Maur, the Black Dragon, from "The Hero and the Crown."

Another great dragon, and a great book.

Nicol Bolas from the CCG "Magic: The Gathering."

His name is a little goofy, though.

 

[Festivus]

In Age of Worms there was Ilthane the Black. Not sure how famous, but to my group she was.

 

[JohnRTroy]

Dunno if this counts, but my Favorite Black Dragon is "The Black Dragon",which is the Graphic Novel by Chris Claremont and John Bolton from the 1980s.

Amazon.com: The Black Dragon (9781569710425): Chris Claremont, John Bolton: Books

(Hey, if we can talk about Kung-Fu, this counts too ...)

 

[Corsair]

His name is a little goofy, though.

Have you read any of the other names in this thread?

 

[Nymrohd]

Just to fill in on Deathwing, he was once Neltharion, the Earth Warden, aspect of the Earth. An enormous black dragon tasked by the Titans to preserve Azeroth he was the most respected until the sinister Old Gods trapped in the depths of Azeroth drove him mad. During the War of the Ancients he convinced the other 4 aspects to lend part of their flight's power in a single object called the Dragon Soul which he then used to destroy the the Blue Dragonflight almost to a drake (and which was intented to be used by the Old Gods to escape their prison). Currently Deathwing is a creature of literal burning fury and seething hatred, his flesh turned to volatile magma that is only contained because of the adamantine plating riveted over his entire body.

 

[Mouseferatu]

This is only tangentially related but to this day I think the most awesome dragon battle sequence on film is the fight at the end of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.

Just as a quick aside, I miss the old Disney. Can you imagine any of their cartoons ending a battle like that, or using the phrase "...and all the powers of Hell!" in this day and age?

 

[M.L. Martin]

Just as a quick aside, I miss the old Disney. Can you imagine any of their cartoons ending a battle like that, or using the phrase "...and all the powers of Hell!" in this day and age?

Given that The Princess and the Frog climaxes with the villain

Spoiler

being dragged down under the earth of a cemetery by the voodoo spirits he bargains with, in what struck me as very much a "dragged down to Hell" analog

, I'm not sure it's completely lost.

Now, what system for a somewhat darker/more serious take on things like Disney's Snow White and Sleeping Beauty? There's some great villains and magic in there.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Given that The Princess and the Frog climaxes with the villain

Spoiler

being dragged down under the earth of a cemetery by the voodoo spirits he bargains with, in what struck me as very much a "dragged down to Hell" analog

, I'm not sure it's completely lost.

Really? Hm. I haven't been paying much attention to the more recent movies, but now I may need to check that one out.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Really? Hm. I haven't been paying much attention to the more recent movies, but now I may need to check that one out.

You may be one of the people who'd understand when I say that Dr. Facilier struck me as Chicken Bone's (RLMCII) younger, city-dwelling, smooth-talking cousin.