Sun dragons, also called solar dragons, were relatively benevolent dragons capable of natural spelljamming.[2][1]
Description[]
Sun dragons had a largely draconic build (four legs and two wings, long neck and tail), though slightly more serpentine than ordinary; in some accounts their forelimbs ended with a set of fins or secondary wings and their primary wings glowed.[2][1]
Sun dragons changed color over the course of their lifecycle: at hatching, they were a fiery red that changed to burnt orange as juveniles, which in turn lightened to brilliant yellow as mature adults before paling to bluish-white when venerable. Finally, great wyrms not only paled again to bright white, but also shrank in size almost back to that of a hatchling.[2]
The eggs of sun dragons were shiny, obsidian-black spheres that turned translucent just before hatching.[1]
Personality[]
Sun dragons were glorious and gracious beings that appreciated their freedom to live as they may among the stars. They were known for being just as playful[2] as they were ferocious.[1]
While sun dragons indulged in treasure and wealth as nearly all other dragons, they valued nourishment of food even more.[1] What treasure they did collect, became coated in their saliva to prevent its destruction from being so close to active stars.[2]
Despite their benevolent nature, sun dragons were territorial predators, and could claim asteroid belts or even entire star systems as their hunting grounds.[1] Due to their respect for intelligent life, they took care not to consume any forms of sentient life.[2]
Abilities[]
Sun dragons had a unique breath weapon, that released single mote of photonic, radiant energy. At a designated point, the mote erupted into a massive explosion that radiated outwards for 30 ft (9.1 m),[1] similar to a fireball.[2]
Relationships[]
They viewed lunar dragons as their most-maligned enemies.[2]
Ecology[]
Sun dragons made their lairs in one of two locales found throughout wildspace: either in the cavities of desolate, floating rocks that were bathed in starlight, or within the actual cores of stars themselves.[1][2]
While sun dragons considered most humanoid races to be savage nuisances,[1] they did occasionally serve as mounts in some circumstances. Noble-born astral elves could attempt to summon sun dragons by magical means for a scant few minutes, once each day.[3][4]
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Appearances[]
- Video Games
- Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms
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References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Christopher Perkins (August 2022). “Boo's Astral Menagerie”. In Judy Bauer, Kim Mohan eds. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 50–53. ISBN 978-0-7869-6816-9.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Scott Davis, Newton Ewell, John Terra (1991). Monstrous Compendium Spelljammer Appendix 2. Edited by Allen Varney. (TSR, Inc.), p. 19. ISBN 1-56076-071-0.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins (August 2022). “Boo's Astral Menagerie”. In Judy Bauer, Kim Mohan eds. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Wizards of the Coast), p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7869-6816-9.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, et al. (August 2022). “Light of Xaryxis”. In Judy Bauer, Kim Mohan eds. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space (Wizards of the Coast), p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7869-6816-9.
Connections[]
Chromatic dragons: Black • Blue • Brown • Gray • Green • Orange • Pink • Purple • Red • Salt • White • Yellow
Gem dragons: Amethyst • Beljuril • Crystal • Emerald • Obsidian • Sapphire • Topaz • Ruby
Neutral dragons: Amber • Jacinth • Moonstone • Pearl
Lung dragons: Chiang lung • Li lung • Lung wang • Pan lung • Shen lung • T'ien lung • Tun mi lung • Yu lung
Ferrous dragons: • Cobalt • Iron
Planar dragons: Adamantine • Astral • Battle • Blight • Chaos • Ethereal • Hellfire wyrm • Howling • Mirage • Oceanus • Pyroclastic • Radiant • Rust • Shadow • Styx • Tarterian
Spelljamming dragons: Moon/lunar • Radiant • Sun/solar
Epic dragons: Force • Prismatic • Time
Catastrophic dragons: Blizzard • Earthquake • Volcanic
Miscellaneous dragons: Cobra • Dzalmus • Mist • Rattelyr • Song • Vishap
Linnorms: Corpse tearer • Dread • Stygian
Drakes: Ambush • Black firedrake • Dragonne • Elemental (Earth • Fire • Ice • Magma • Ooze • Smoke • Water) • Felldrake (Crested • Spitting) • Greater • Guard • Mind • Portal • Rage • Space • Storm • Vulture
Dragonbloods: Draconic creature • Dragonborn of Bahamut • Dragonspawn
Drow-dragon (shadow) • Drow-dragon (deep) • Half-dragon • Kobold (Dragonwrought • Urd) • Weredragon • Zar'ithra • Zekyl
Hybrid monsters: Dracimera • Dracolisk • Mantidrake • Wyvern drake