Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco

Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco, or Mist for short, was the ancient red dragon famous for killing the Abomination of Moander at the cost of her own life in 1357 DR.

"You must forgive me for not knowing anything about you, but I've been so out of touch. I am Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco. You may call me Mist. And I'll call you… supper? Yes, it's about time for a light, early supper. So nice of you to deliver yourself."

- Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco

Description
Mistinarperadnacles was an ancient dragon with an appropriate size of almost  from head to tail's end. Her scales were rust-colored, muted, washed out with age. The hue gradually darkened to almost purple color closer toward's her belly that was typically covered in gold and gems. Her age could be easily detected by the number of scarred, purple, and violet scales accumulated through centuries. Her maw housed terrifying sword-sized teeth, and large reptilian golden eyes instilled terror into anyone unlucky enough to meet their leer. Her mouth was decorated with fleshy whiskers growing all around its jaw especially on the chin, a casual observer could compare them to that of a cat.

Personality
Mist's personality was not typical for a red dragon. Though she ate living creatures and kept a hoard of a treasure that she coveted like any other red dragon, she didn't enjoy killing just for the sake of killing or the joy of inspiring terror. She found evil acts for the sake of terror, like razing a village, to be extremely dull and unappealing. She also valued entertainment, music, and stories, more than her gold, gems, and magic.

In some ways, her outlook on life was naive and simple. She respected the ancient draconic code of conduct and traditions, such as the Feint of Honor, even though she had no problem with cheating. She also cared deeply about her reputation and keeping up appearances, especially among other dragons. She would cheat but she would be sure to eat any witnesses.

Abilities
Mist's ancient hide was impervious to normal missiles and as a red dragon, she was immune to fire damage. Like other dragons, Mist possessed a aura of fear that sent her opponents fleeing.

She was truly a terrifying opponent. Her fire breath had a reach with the spread of. Mist's teeth and claws were deadly in close combat, and she had access to a wide variety of spells to cast on her opponents, including charm person, wizard lock, hold person, and animal friendship. She also had spell-like abilities due to her ancient age: affect normal fires, pyrotechnics, heat metal, suggestion, hypnotism, and detect gems that could tell her the number and type of precious stones in a radius.

Lair
Mist's lair was located in the Storm Horns Mountains of Cormyr. The lair was a huge natural cave with its entrance overlooking the road between Waymoot and Suzail. In the ages past the cave was used as a temple and it had a spacious domed ceiling, ceiling vent holes, and an altar. The cave also had a back door of sorts, a narrow passageway that was created by a stream of water that ran into the cave and culminated in a small waterfall. The "backdoor" passageway had a constriction point about in, forcing anyone brave enough to surprise the lair's dweller track through ice-cold waters.

The cave itself was spacious enough for an ancient red dragon, across. Mist's sizable treasure hoard filled one side of the lair and her victims' bones - the other.

The cave was also home to a flock of ravens. Mist used her animal friendship spell on them to have the birds act as her feathered sentries.

History
Mistinarperadnacles' first recorded appearance in history was as part of the Flight of Dragons, though she didn't have anything to do with Syluné Silverhand's death personally. She also accompanied Thauglor to The Passing of Power in. She fled in terror when Thauglor's throat exploded.

Mist learned that destruction on such a scale was not the way she liked to do things. She retreated to a lair in the Storm Horns, killing the younger, male red dragon to whom it belonged. From that base, she launched attacks on merchants heading from Suzail to Waymoot for food and treasure for her hoard.

On one of these caravans traveled a halfling bard named Olive Ruskettle. Mist would let her live as long as she could keep Mist entertained. Ruskettle was rescued by a tattooed swordswoman called Alias in a Feint of Honor in which she only narrowly defeated the dragon. Mist vowed to kill Alias despite the rules of the challenge but never saw her again.

Mist did find Ruskettle again, under the protectorship of a saurial paladin named Dragonbait. He challenged her to another feint of honor. Mist was defeated again but as she had nothing to lose she was instead required to aid the pair to defeat the Avatar of Moander. The trio met the god in Westgate. He had taken the form of a huge mass of rotting vegetation and Mist had been badly beaten by the deity. She used her fire breath on Moander which ignited the flammable gases given off by his rotting body. The blast destroyed Mist and Moander's avatar.

Mist's skull was later used by Victor Dhostar of the Night Masks as a scrying device and adviser. However, it seems that later it was also destroyed.

Appearances

 * Novels
 * Azure Bonds &bull; Cormyr: A Novel