Metallic dragons cannot be found this side of the World’s Edge ([[The City Itself#The Cup of the Doge|29.14]])
Connections
- Metallic dragons
- Severard left a chest of Scorshia birch charcoal doused in dragon blood (13.08)
- Dwarven mystics say that the Rift (03.03) was once home to an ancient dragon whose wing-shadow spanned hundreds of feet, but that the Drinker of Iron, Forge-Father-Mother of the dwarves, drove the dragon from the mountains.
- Chicken dragons
- Kobolds are the things that dragons have forgotten (see kobolds for more). The father of all dragons had a hand in their making.
- The Browncloaks claim that they looted a dragon cave but left much copper (08.01)
- The Font of Chimalia is dragon-warded (31.19)
- Celadon the Shrewd is a green dragon (10.12)
- A dragon cult is rising in Cragsend (04.06), sparked by the sighting of a fearsome dragon. The cult believes that if the phoenix mates with the dragon, their offspring will usher in a terrible era of draconic glory.
- A large wooded range of hills has long been known as the Dragon’s Spine (10.01). Although it does vaguely resemble a sleeping dragon, its name almost certainly comes from the overactive imaginations of local peasants, combined with the profusion of wormroot that grows here, which in earlier times was called wyrmroot and believed to be related to dragons and dragonfire.
- Dragon Lake (25.16) has the shape of a dragon, but it is also rumoured that one day a dragon egg will be found there.
- Tharaxes, the Blue Death, a blue dragon of enormous power appears without warning out of the blue sky with claws that slash through rock and lightning breath that can split a tree in a moment. It is an illusion created by the Dust Walkers.
- Five-headed dragon-queen Tiamat is mother of dragons. There is a red dragon head in Blackhorn’s Maze (39.32) that is supposedly Tiamat’s.
- Old Black is a dragon that slumbers in the roots of the Nameless Mountain (13.24). Although Old Black has not stirred in twenty years, during his last rampage, he laid waste to the twin towns of Olgam and Oskill in the west. Old Black’s claws and teeth are obsidian daggers, and his breath is said to corrode flesh, wood and even stone. Now, the pomegranate trees on the mountain’s slopes are withering, foul air drifts from caves near the peak and hooded, black-scaled kobolds seem to be fleeing something…
- Zealots bind converts using dragon gut (07.33)
- Rumour has it that a dragon is coming to Broderick’s Estuary (01.08). The occasional drake already passes through.
- The lizard figurehead on Prow’s Beach believes that it is a dragon (00.03).
- Draconic is the language of dragons. It is difficult to translate (see 02.03)
- A certain dragon claims that Scorshia (02.03) is a mispronunciation of a draconic term that means “mother of mountains” or perhaps “the first stone”
- A dragon appears in the Chant of Morning, assailing the King in Splendour. The Dragon is referred to in the teachings of a lion priest - the Dragon will gnaw holes in the mountains to make homes for the faithful (06.03)
- The duergar of the Dismal Mine (21.27) have an alliance with a young black dragon.
- Broderick slew a dragon whose scales shone like orange gems, whose heat boiled the Boiling Sea. The heart’s blood entered his mouth and unstopped his ears so that he could hear what men should not and the rage of a dragon entered his heart. Only the blood of his father washed away that of the dragon.
- The dragonblooded are marked by the essence of Tiamat.
- Anyissa, a Scarecrow, has taken a golden egg from a treasure stash of Celadon’s.
- The Sealed Library includes ‘So You Want To Be A Dragon?’, an instruction manual on becoming a dragon. It includes a helpful index on dragon colors, and is apparently very user-friendly.
- The first Hog of Death’s Lovelies climbed into the mouth of a dragon turtle
- Wild giant lizards are called mud dragons but they lack much of a dragon’s grandeur (16.23)
- Cultists of Dead Tiamat want to use dragon parts to make a dracolich (14.02)
- The first dragons broke the world like an egg with their birth, in the time when the towers of the Forgotten City-State eroded into sand (22.25)