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| Race | Pallid Dragon |
| Over-race | Dragon |
| Classification | Sundry |
| Family | Obsidian Obelisk |
| Sphere | Agony |
| Origin | Developed as dragons absorbed arnum |
| Lifespan | 100,000 years |
| Habitat | Forest lakes |
| Food | Omnivorous/energies |
| Description | At birth, all dragons look like large, pink worms. At maturity, pallid dragons grow to be a snake with three mouths, six eyes, and three heads. Their scales are pallid white. |
| 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 | Pallid dragons accumulate arnum in vast quantities. Rending, infernum, and msawhat are also common. Divine energies are infrequent. Damaskian power, flux, and fortune are not uncommon. Mana is frequent. Other powers vary, but 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 physical torture, heartbreaking pain, shattering boom, disconnect soul from body, and summon racksmen or excruciators. |
| Alternate Forms | Pallid dragons sometimes take the form of an ular. |
| Weaknesses | Healing and soothing energies will harm them. |
| Subspecies | Hook dragons are pallid dragons transformed into serpents covered in tiny white hooks by consuming significant quantiites of arnum. They tear through the fabric of reality, causing wormholes of pain to flow in their wake. |
| Culture | Pallid dragons lay eggs in forest lakes, where they abandon them. One in twenty survive to maturity, fighting each other and other beasts for survival. When they reach maturity, they seek out other pallid dragons to enslave and torture for nourishment and entertainment, eventually resorting to coerced mating. They do not form large groups or communities, but hate each other on site. They enslave non-dragons at times and torment them for nourishment, and they take what belonged to their victims for their hoards. When they grow old, other pallid dragons find them and torment them to death. |
| Notables | Cruciamen, Pallid 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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