Zombie dragon

Zombie dragons were lesser undead dragons whose corpses were raised as zombies, often associated with the Cult of the Dragon.

Description
Zombie dragons' sizes, colors, and strength varied greatly, depending on what corpse was used to create them. Rot was a common condition for these undead beasts. Their eyes were clouded and milky, showing not a single spark of intelligence.

Abilities
Like other types of undead, zombified dragons were immune to mind-affecting abilities and spells, poisons, sleep, paralysis, stun, and all natural and magical diseases. Zombie dragons could not be affected by lifeforce and experience drain, or be damaged by critical attacks. Additionally, they were known for their physical toughness. They were vulnerable to holy water and especially powerful turning by clerics and paladins.

Even in their undead form, zombie dragons possessed supremely keen senses allowing them to detect hidden and invisible creatures within of themselves, and had senses, similar to  clairaudience with  range, but only within the creature's lair.

Zombie red dragons, just like in life, were immune to magical and mundane fire, and could control them via control flames and pyrotechnics spell-like abilities three times per day each. Zombie dragon turtles were immune to mundane and magical cold, could not be turned by clerics and paladins. And, more importantly, could use their scolding steam breath weapon.

Personality
Lacking intelligence, these hulking rotting creatures blindly served their masters and were known for their vicious hate for the living.

Ecology
Being unnatural undead things, zombie dragons had no place in natural order of things. They did not need to eat nor sleep.

The bodies of zombie dragons could be used to house a dracolich's essence, given its phylactery was nearby. A dracolich, when inside the body of a zombie dragon, could consume remnants of its old husk to magically transform the rotting zombie carcass into the lich's original form.

Zombie dragons could be created by vampiric dragons when a young adult or younger dragon was killed by a vampiric dragon's blood drain, or when any age dragon was killed by a vampire's energy drain. The resulting dragon zombie was a mindless beast under the control of the vampiric dragon that spawned it.

History
In the early mid-14 century DR, a zombie dragon turtle dwelt in a lake underneath Wolover's Keep in the Veilstone Peaks of Cormyr.

At some point after 1358 DR, a young adult red dragon Larghauseth perished after drinking a potion of dracolich transformation. His body was raised as a zombie dragon in the 1360's DR, by the Cult of the Dragon during their attempt to reestablish operations in the Thunder Peaks. The zombie dragon was ordered by wight Karnal to attack anything that wasn't him, his skeleton dragon Oskurouh, an entity that displayed the symbol of either Velsharoon, or the Cult of the Dragon.

In 1369 DR, one of the Cult of the Dragon's high-ranking clerics, Shamoor, raised a an adult black dragon zombie to be used as a spare body. The zombie dragon was kept in the Elven Catacombs underneath Castle Cormanthor, close to the chamber that housed the pool of radiance, that the Cult was using to empower their dracolich ally, Pelendralaar. In case the ritual failed, the Cult's zombie dragon was there to serve as the lich's new body, before that, however, the zombie was used as a guard houd for the pool.

Notable Zombie Dragons

 * Larghauseth: a young adult red dragon also known as Flashfire, was brought to unlife by the Cult of the Dragon.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Nightmare Keep &bull; TSR Jam 1999 &bull; Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor