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| Race | Hoary Dragon |
| Over-race | Dragon |
| Classification | Sundry |
| Family | Sable Night |
| Sphere | Ice |
| Origin | Developed as dragons absorbed brumal aether |
| Lifespan | 100,000 years |
| Habitat | Arctic tundra |
| Food | Omnivorous/energies |
| Description | At birth, all dragons look like large, pink worms. At maturity, hoary dragons grow to be huge, winged lizards with hoary scales and large ears. |
| Procreation | Dragons mate with each other only. Without intense supernatural interference, half-dragons are an impossibility. Dragons lay one to three eggs at a time. Upon hatching, a dragon immediately begins absorbing background energies. All dragon eggs are filled with pure, liquid draconic energy, which sustains the baby dragon upon hatching. |
| Esoterica | Hoary dragons absorb vast amounts of brumal aether. Msawhat, lunar aether, and void are also common. Arnum and shadow are not unheard of, nor is infernum. Yahas, psionics, possibility, currents aether, winds aether, pattern aether, seasonal aether, mystery, bone, and karma are also common. Divine energies are not unheard of. Holy powers, sol angelic aether, and rubedian aether are impossible, as is emotional resonance. |
| Special Powers | Dragons gain new powers as they accumulate more energies. At each stage of growth, they gain a new ability, usually culminating with the twelfth ability when they accumulate . The usual progression of powers is as follows:
All dragons accumulate energies by absorbing them naturally from the area around them. As such, they must carefully cultivate their lairs to provide the right kinds of energies, hence they hoard appropriate objects. Other common powers include heartdraining, mind freeze, mind control, chilling wind, and bloodfreeze. |
| Alternate Forms | Hoary dragons sometimes take the form of a yeti. |
| Weaknesses | Sol angelic or rubedian aether will hurt them. |
| Subspecies | Winter dragons have accumulated more brumal aether than most. They become vortices that absorb and destroy all heat, freezing the air solid around them, covering them in plates of ice. They appear to be a cross between hoary dragons and polar bears, and they have more powerful breath weapons and the ability to nullify someone's emotions at will. |
| Culture | Hoary dragons lay their eggs in snowbanks and then abandon them. One in five survive. As youth, they compete with each other for resources in the barren tundras and mountains, and they become hard, solitary beings. By the time they are mature, they have usually acquired slaves and a small hoard, which they use to build and build in their isolated dens in the mountains and deep tundra, glacial caves, and crevasses. They rule small fiefdoms and mate only on rare occasions, never forming emotional bonds. When they grow old, they die alone and forgotten. |
| Notables | Cryonastus, Hoary Dragon Manifest |
| Sample statistics | For all draconic powers, the rule is 1 point in a stat costs 6 points of an energy. (Mature) PRO 19 ATH 20 STR 37 AWA 23 WIL 22 ROG 13 (Mature) PRO 19 ATH 20 STR 37 AWA 23 WIL 22 ROG 13 |
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