Dragon, Amber

Origin

The Amber dragons were created by the Greater God Mikon during the Great War.

Alignment

Amber Dragons are Lawful Evil.

Habitat

Tropical forest.

Information

Haughty, charismatic and ambitious, amber dragons are amongst the most powerful creatures on Avlis. Combining a quick wit and a golden tongue with their majestic and alluring gold-scaled bodies, these dragons not only have great power, but also possess the cunning and charisma necessary to utilize it to their fullest potential.

Amber dragons are taller and leaner than their metallic counterparts, with a beak-like snout, a smooth, unbroken head which spreads into a crest adorned with a pair of sharply swept back horns, bearing a striking resemblance to an elaborate crown. Twin frills that start from the back of their horns and flow into their large sail like wings completing this deceptively lithe figure, and the translucent gold scales along with opaque wings spray its surroundings with a bright auric light. Spreading a scent of exotic spices and fire, these dragons are able to grab and hold the attention of large crowds with little more than their physical presence. Starting as a dull, blood-red color as a hatchling, the amber’s scales gradually turn more translucent and golden as it ages, and gains the characteristic gold halo effect by the time it reaches young adulthood. Like all stone dragons, ambers maintain their eye shape through the course of their lifetime, coal black with golden pupils.

Yet for all their strength and grace in draconic form, it is perhaps in their ability to blend in as polymorphed creatures where ambers truly excel. Rather than the brutish tactics of pyrite dragons, ambers tend to use their ability to shift forms to become humanoid and legitimately become rulers of villages or cities near their forest lairs, slowly corrupting its citizenry and eliminating any potential rivals, eventually turning it into a vassal town with itself at the head.

Ambers see the world as a zero-sum game, and thus do not tolerate the presence of their kin for long, feeling that additional amber dragons in the world simply dilute the overall riches and power to be hoarded. Thus they tend to be extremely paranoid of other dragons, and will go to great lengths to prevent the knowledge of their lairs from spreading to other dragons and jealously covet information which may allow them to find and kill their rival dragonkin.