BloodDragon

Climate / Terrain

Upper Planes, Mountains, Forests.

Challenge Rating

?

Treasure

Double Standard

Alignment

Lawful Evil

Breath Weapon

The Blood Dragon’s breath weapon is a cone of the blood it is composed of heated to a scalding temperature and breathed as a noxious, corrosive alkali gas.

Blood Body

As the dragon ages its body becomes more and more composed entirely of blood held together by its terrific power. From hatching, although a huge creature, it can always get through spaces that should only take large creatures due to the slickness and fluidity of its body. Although it becomes far larger to this the smallest it can get through never goes up. In fact when it becomes Old it can get through the gap left for a medium creature, when ancient it can get through small gaps, when a Wyrm it can get through tiny gaps and when it is a Great Wyrm it has no solid structures left and can, eventually, get through the finest gap that blood could trickle through (under great pressure). The one corollary to this is that it often takes a blood dragon a long time to do this as the volume must flow through.

As the dragon gets older his skin, always slick with blood, disappears and he becomes totally fluid. His blood also becomes more alkaline and dangerous to touch. Anyone or anything touching the dragon takes 1d8 points of alkali damage per age category of the dragon (Fort. Save for half) to a maximum of 12d8. Pouring acid on the dragon will not harm it at all but will make it safe to touch for a number of rounds equal to the amount of damage the acid would have done.

As the dragon gets older, more and more of his sentience is spread through his blood. If the dragon is not killed any blood that is not utterly destroyed has a 40% + 5%/age category to eventually regenerate itself - Dragon is not fully restored until it is completely regenerated and become the dragon once more. This process is draining and some memory is always lost. The dragon loses one age category every time this happens (which returns normally with more age). Most blood dragons do keep a vial or two of blood hidden away. Finally anyone that it has bloodlinked too is automatically counted as having a little of their blood in them (unless it is somehow magically purged) and must be destroyed to fully destroy the dragon.

Blood Linking

Anyone who drinks of the dragon’s blood is automatically linked to the dragon (although if they are unwilling they can make a fortitude save (DC 40 + Age Category of Dragon + Charisma modifier) to vomit the blood up – causes incapacitation for 10 rounds). The blood slowly takes over until a week later all the blood in the victim’s body is technically made of the Blood Dragon’s own blood. The blood dragon can at this point physically dominate the body to make it perform any action, with a simple concentration check (DC 15). It can transfer its consciousness to the blood and possess the body completely with more difficulty (Concentration check DC 40, victim gets a will save to resist (DC 40 + Age Category of Dragon + Charisma modifier). A blood dragon is immune to this. Natural shapeshifters or those who have control over their own blood may be given bonuses to their saving throw.

Vile Spell-like Abilities

Not detectable as Psionics, Magic or Evil (only through specialised spells detecting Vile Magic)

• 1)  Invisibility 5/day
  
• 2)  Dispel Power (Magic, Psionics or Vile, Balanced or Exalted Magic) 5/day
  
• 3)  Polymorph Self 5/day (as good dragons)
  
• 4)  Charm Monster 5/day
  
• 5)  Dominate Monster 5/day
  
• 6)  Scry 5/day y
  
• 7)  Sending 5/day
  
• 8)  Discern Location 5/day
  
• 9)  Horrid Wilting 5/day
  
• 10) Demand 5/day
  
• 11) Powerword, Kill 5/day
  
• 12) Gate 5/day
  

Special Qualities

Regeneration 1, Immune to gases, poison, unholy energy and alkali (take double damage from holy energy).

Spells

A blood dragon can learn all sorcerer spells, cleric spells and those from the law, evil, tyranny and destruction domains.