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AD&D Silver Dragons
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Characteristics:
  • Sometimes known as "Shield Dragons"
  • Kind, always ready to aid needy good-aligned characters
  • Likes the company of humans and forms close relationships with vassals and kindred of all types
  • Non-violent, prefers to avoid combat. Subdues or repels foes
  • Often takes the form of a kindly man or damsel
  • Prefers human form
  • Can walk on clouds and fog
  • Enemies: Reds
Habitat
  • Prefer high lairs on mountain peaks or in clouds
  • Subtropical islands in southern hemisphere
  • Prefers human food
Meaning:
  • Air
Physiology:
  • Silver plated head
  • Pupils fade with age
  • Hatchlings have blue-grey scales with silver highlights
  • Adult have scales so fine that it appears they were sculpted
  • Breath weapon: cone of cold, paralyzation gas
  • Immune to cold
Appearances in Literature and Folklore:
  • Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Sources:

Monstrous Manual 1993 and 2000, www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/2734/silver.html, www.polenth.demon.co.uk/dragon/typedd.html, Windseeker

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