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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Loonook" data-source="post: 5866079" data-attributes="member: 1861">Viking Dragons?  How about the listing for Níðhöggr (Malice Striker) from the Edda?A hall she saw standingremote from the sunon Dead Body Shore.Its door looks north.There fell drops of venomin through the roof vent.That hall is wovenof serpents' spines.She saw there wadingonerous streamsmen perjuredand wolfish murderersand the one who seducesanother's close-trusted wife.There Malice Striker suckedcorpses of the dead,the wolf tore men.Do you still seek to know? And what?Or the tale of Frænir?  A dwarf whose lust and greed turned him <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1fnir" target="_blank">into a serpent</a>?The interesting points of the Edda are that the Gods walk the Earth, and they can die.  No epic-levels needed in E6, but powerful entities capable of changing shape, and residing among men and the fair folk.  The Dragons of Norse mythology usually don't fly, and are more serpent than drake type.  Most dragons are actually corrupted into their form, growing fat on their stores, and dangerous.  Honestly, the Dragon could be a carrion crow type, a warlord corrupted by the dark forces of the fens and taking into himself a force.  He has waxed on the strength of his men, cruel murderers who wander the lands and take their tribute on the New Moon, when his mortal enemy Mani hides his face from the World in preparations for his return.  The darkness of the New Moon is the time when guest-law is not applied in the night, for the servants of the Serpent may not harm one who stands within a home and has not given their bread and salt to the men during the moon's cycle.The warriors of the Dragon hide their hands, burned by the flames of the Dragon as he casts their tie to him, the Crucible Swords.  Cold iron held inside their hands until their pain becomes the very blade, the Crucible Swords number two score, and thus the true Warriors of the Dragon number forty.The Dragon is at his weakest on the Full Moon, as the Man in the Moon protects his children.  Thus the weapons themselves are also weaker, and can be shattered by a strong man's hammerblow.  During the New Moon these blades glow with black fire, burning a man's blood within and without, and turning the murderer into fell servants of the Serpent.  ----In essence the Dragon would be a Red Dragon, flightless and almost motionless but empowered with multiple auras (Greed, Fear, and Weakness) and able to change his form and move during the Waning Moon.  His Chosen are scaling creatures, essentially Karrnathi Zombies (intelligent, strong Zombies) at their Full Moon form, but some actually become more and more powerful as the Moon wanes to New.  The most powerful Lieutenants could be empowered forms of others, including Olaf Fleshrend (a brutish Vampire-type that uses his Rage upon the fens to lead the warriors of the Host and his own 'Battlesworn' Vampire Spawn in rape and pillage), Jotun Giantsthief (A wispy Lokiesque lad who chooses the Moon to walk in the skins of various folk to infiltrate various holdings and then lay inside the body when the Moon begins to wax [Possessing Ghost]), or The Undying (a Troll whose body is reborn every New Moon unless finally put to rest).  The servants of the Dragon who do not number among the Two-Score are corruptible fools, or the Reborn.  Reborn are in essence zombies or (if long-dead) skeletons that the Dragon has taken under his control.Necromancy and risen warriors are not necessarily 'evil' in a Norse setting, as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einherjar" target="_blank">Noble Dead</a> would speak of.  The Dragon can influence through dreams and nightmares, but its power is greatest on the New and weakest on the Full.Slainte,-Loonook.</blockquote>

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