| Race | Jasper Dragon |
| Over-race | Dragon |
| Classification | Sundry |
| Family | Sable Night |
| Sphere | Nightmare |
| Origin | Developed as dragons absorbed msawhat-infused dream energy or fear resonance |
| Lifespan | 100,000 years |
| Habitat | Horrifying forests |
| Food | Omnivorous/energies |
| Description | At birth, all dragons look like large, pink worms. At maturity, jasper dragons grow to be red, yellow, brown or green or even rarely blue scaled serpents with thirteen eyes, thirteen mouths, and thirteen tongues in each mouth. |
| 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 | Jasper dragons have accumulated msawhat-corrupted dream energy, fear resonance, and infernum in vast amounts. They also accumulate rending, brumal aether, lunar aether, Damaskian power, poioumenon, pure msawhat, rubedian aether, shadow, and mystery. Divine energies are not unheard of. Other powers vary, but pure dream and holy powers are impossible. |
| 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 haunting shadow, fearsome presence, ear-shattering wail, nightmare flame, and poisonous touch. |
| Alternate Forms | Jasper dragons sometimes take the form of a Maradacian. |
| Weaknesses | Dream energy and radiance harms them most. |
| Subspecies | Terror dragons have accumulated more fear resonance and msawhat-corrupted dream energy than most, and they have become paragons of horror. They change forms at will to be what you most fear, and they live only in the nightmare realm. They warp it about them and haunt the dreams of the powerful, especially other dragons. |
| Culture | Jasper dragons live in the deep woods of Malaer, where terrors lurk. They lay their eggs in eldritch nests of bramble and fire, and they raise their young to be horrors that stalk the woods. They form dark alliances with powerful beings near to them and enslave the weak, and they terrorize their foes and the meek and mild. They are brutal and vicious and live in small tribes led by the most fearsome among them. When they grow old, they settle into living in a vast pit or gully where they lie in wait. |
| Notables | Phobanius, Jasper 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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