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Cergorach said:
More akin to the dragons of Middle Earth, than the Dragons of standard D&D.
How are Iron Kingdoms Dragons Different?
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More akin to the dragons of Middle Earth, than the Dragons of standard D&D.
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As a Dark Sun afficionado since its earliest days, it does sound like they are more akin to a final stage Dark Sun dragon than the earlier stage DS dragons, and especially standard D&D dragons.Cergorach said:
Lord Toruk may or may not be the first Dragon, but he is the most powerful being one of the few active divine beings on Caen (IK's prime material plane). The others are the Harbinger (a mortal avatar of Menoth), the weakening Scryah (one of two remaining elven gods), and Nyssor (the second surviving elven god - who has survived by placing himself in an icy stasis). The Avatar of Menoth may also be mechanikal avatar of Menoth, but I suspect it to be more akin to a divine golem.
The weakest dragons of the Iron Kingdoms are more akin to Bahamut and Tiamat compared to D&D dragons but with a twisted, corrupting nature (Radiation is a good analogy) and there are no "good" dragons, only evil.
Lord Toruk is the only dragon known to grant spells to followers, though he does it via perverse ritual sacrifice rather than via true divine channels. His followers sacrifice souls to him and he uses the souls' power to grant spells. The necromantic energies of this process tend to warp and mutate his clerics (permanent Con drain as they advance).
The dragon Everblight has Warlocks (such as the Prophet of Everblight), but these are not the same as clerics. Warlocks of Everblight gain their power by having a shard Everblight's Athanc embedded in their body.
By the way, the Iron Kingdoms setting completely rocks!
The weakest dragons of the Iron Kingdoms are more akin to Bahamut and Tiamat compared to D&D dragons but with a twisted, corrupting nature (Radiation is a good analogy) and there are no "good" dragons, only evil.
Lord Toruk is the only dragon known to grant spells to followers, though he does it via perverse ritual sacrifice rather than via true divine channels. His followers sacrifice souls to him and he uses the souls' power to grant spells. The necromantic energies of this process tend to warp and mutate his clerics (permanent Con drain as they advance).
The dragon Everblight has Warlocks (such as the Prophet of Everblight), but these are not the same as clerics. Warlocks of Everblight gain their power by having a shard Everblight's Athanc embedded in their body.
By the way, the Iron Kingdoms setting completely rocks!
HeavenShallBurn
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Cabral said:
For gods, archdevils, demon lords, and other cosmic entities I use the Dicefreaks system and these slot right in with powerful demon lords or weaker demon princes. The last time a Dicefreak wroteup Tiamat she was CR72. Not the pitiful thing WoTC would make. I even figure the writeups in the demonominicon on the various demon lords were quite a bit too low. So these are definitely up my alley.
They give me a really smaugish sort of feel, these are dragons that don't terrorize a village they terrorize half a continent. The kind you can envision as the size of a guided missile destroyer with wings like the decks of aircraft carriers and a mouth that can swallow elephants whole.
Which is even more impressive when the mortals of the land rarely hit late teens. Unlike Forgotten Realms where anybody who's anybody is Epic by some great margin, very few mortals even make it to their late teens.
There are no Epic rules for the Ik though some of the NPCs breach the 20th level cap. (Sebastian Nemo is about level 22, Asphixious is ECL alot and Terminus is ECL alot more.) These are not heights your character can achieve. Like the once mortal twins and their ascendants/scions, these are beyond the scope of the standard IK campaign.
But back to IK dragons, when the Orgoth came conquered Western Immorean (the setting of the Iron Kingdoms), one are remained unconquered, despite being in the path of the invading forces, the Isle of Cryx. The Orgoth swept over Western Immorean and subjugated this half-continent (apart from the elven and dwarven lands) and could not make any headway towards the Isle of Cryx because Lord Toruk destroyed their forces as they approached.
There are no Epic rules for the Ik though some of the NPCs breach the 20th level cap. (Sebastian Nemo is about level 22, Asphixious is ECL alot and Terminus is ECL alot more.) These are not heights your character can achieve. Like the once mortal twins and their ascendants/scions, these are beyond the scope of the standard IK campaign.
But back to IK dragons, when the Orgoth came conquered Western Immorean (the setting of the Iron Kingdoms), one are remained unconquered, despite being in the path of the invading forces, the Isle of Cryx. The Orgoth swept over Western Immorean and subjugated this half-continent (apart from the elven and dwarven lands) and could not make any headway towards the Isle of Cryx because Lord Toruk destroyed their forces as they approached.
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