Larghauseth

Larghauseth, known to humans as Flashfire, was a red dragon that lived in the 14 century DR.

Personality
Larghauseth was displayed many of the personality traits typical of adult red dragons, such as being greedy and self-centered. He was intelligent clever, with a love for games, especially of the cat-and-mouse variety. Yet he was also curious, subject to mood swings, and often made decisions arbitrarily.

Abilities
In addition to the standard abilities of an adult red dragon, when he was alive Larghauseth was capable of casting the spells charm person, detect invisible, invisibility, lightning bolt, and sleep.

In his later undead form he lacked these spellcasting abilities, as well as his fear aura and dragon breath. Though he could cast the spell-like abilities affect normal fires and pyrotechnics thrice per day. And became vulnerable to holy water.

History
Larghauseth was one of many dragons that flew south during the Flight of Dragons. After the destruction of Phlan he continued flying south, drawn by a strange compulsion. He eventually made his way to Mount Drakkor Rouge in the Thunder Peaks in 1358 DR. Within the semi-extinct volocano he settled down in the abandoned Temple of the Dragon Oracle, making his lair in the back of lava caves that the temple was built upon. He had been drawn there by magical statues left behind by the temple's Dracon Cultists, which acted as beacons to dragons.

Larghauseth came to subjugate the gargoyles that laired within the temple, making them his minions. And then went on to make the inhabitants of Volkumburgh, a village north of Mount Drakkor Rouge, aware of the temple and demanded a monthly tribute from them in the form of five sheep. Though, even when this tribute was paid his gargoyle minions would still sometimes terrorize Volkumburgh Vale, stealing sheep from shepherds such as Clemon.

Larghauseth came to sense that something lived within the smoke pit of his lair and it frightened him nearly senseless. He began longing to abandon his lair, wanting to escape his feelings of fear, but he couldn't manage it. He eventually came to suspect that this was due to the temple somehow exerting control over him, but had yet to figure out that the statues were the ones responsible, since their magic also caused him to unconsciously avoid the plaza in which they stood. He also was unaware that the creature he could sense was a dragonwight.

Some time after 1358 DR, Larghauseth tried to down a dracolich potion, but was unsuccessful and died in the process. When the Cult of the Dragon came to re-establish itself in the Thunder Peaks in the 1360's DR, they found the previous cell's Tome of the Dragon and experimented with some of the knowledge it revealed, transforming Larghauseth's corpse into a zombie dragon. In this undead form he lacked his old intellect, operating instead on primitive instincts.

He was ordered by the wight known as Karnal to attack anything that wasn't him, his skeleton dragon Oskurouh, or an entity that displayed the symbol of either Velsharoon or the Cult of the Dragon. Though sometimes, unless Karnal was around to reinforce his order, Larghauseth would sometimes attack people even if they displayed those symbols.

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * The Shattered Statue • TSR Jam 1999