Shadow dragons were related to three drow offshots. The same was true for the Chultan demigod Eshowdow. Shadow dragons were a favored monster of the drow god Vhaeraun, serving him and sometimes being sent by him to aid his followers. They preferred depths of at least 10 miles (16,000 meters) below the surface where the connections to the Plane of Shadow were stronger. They were found in the Underdark, particularly in the Middledark and Lowerdark. They could also be found in the Dragon Eyrie. These dragons from the Plane of Shadow were seen in the Frost Hills and the Thunder Peaks. Many shadow dragons inhabited the dark places of Faerûn, such as ruins or abandoned keeps. History Īround 1372 DR, a number of shadow dragons joined forces with the Cult of the Dragon and there were a number of known shadow dracoliches associated with the cult. All shadow dragons owned an outright immunity against life sapping effects. Their scales were hard even among dragons and grew only harder with age. As it grew, it gained an increasingly stronger resistance against spells and non magical physical attacks. Ī shadow dragon had very strong spell resistances and very hard scales. It fought in many of the ways typically done by true dragons - biting, clawing, bludgeoning with its wings and/or its tail, crushing on an enemy and sweeping with its tail. Combat Ī shadow dragon would stalk its prey from the shadows, preferring to use its abilities to blend with the darkness and to confuse its enemies. Like many other true dragons, they developed sorcerer abilities with at least the potential to learn spells usually only open to divine casters as well as from the chaos, evil and trickery domain. Those with ties to the plane were largely unaffected. Creatures without ties to the Plane of Shadow were practically blind as long as they remained in the area that encompassed a radius of 100 yards (91 meters). The darkness was impossible to disperse with light, magical or not. Once this ability was used, a battle was in danger of becoming a one sided matter in favor of the shadow dragon. Once at great wyrm stage, they could fill a large area with darkness. ![]() They could hide away into shadows, even those in otherwise well-lit areas, and learned over its ages to cast mirror image, dimension door nondetection and shadow walk. Magic Īs they aged, shadow dragons learned an increasing number of magical abilities to hide from enemies and enhance their movement. They could train their breath weapon to turn those they killed with it into spectral creatures who were then permanently enslaved by the shadow dragon. Creatures caught in it lost parts of their vitality, skills and spells, possibly permanently, all while temporarily empowering the dragon. Breath Ī shadow dragon's breath was a cone of shadows. ![]() Like any other true dragon, shadow dragons had sharp hearing and sight, which was capable of low-light vision and darkvision. ![]() They weren't exactly fast flyers but could move unusually fast on feet for dragons. Starting with a predisposition towards mundane hiding, sneaking and jumping. They had the frightful presence like other dragons and a number of abilities that allowed them to be stealthy and also to move fast. For example even at great wyrm stage shadow dragons were, in regards of raw physical strength, below a white dragon, the weakest of the chromatic dragons, at the same stage. ![]() Shadow dragons were physically weak compared to other dragons. Shadow dragons were crafty and devious, eclipsing even red dragons in their mental capabilities and were on par with gold dragons, the smartest of the metallic dragons. Ī dragon egg could be identified as that of a shadow dragon by the purple tinge seen when held in front of an intense white light, though it shared this trait with deep dragon and amethyst dragon eggs. An average shadow dragon was 20 ft - 30 ft (6.1 m - 9.1 m) in length. A long fringe of spines emerged from the back of a dragon's neck and its powerful tail featured a swimming fin. Shadow dragons were often mistaken for black dragons, but their horns pointed backwards. Physically seeming insubstantial, shadow dragons had dark and translucent scales which helped them camouflage into the darkness around them.
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