Shadow dragon
| D shadow dragon (No tile) | |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | 24 |
| Attacks |
Breath 4d6 drain life, Bite 4d8 phsyical, Claw 4d6 phsyical, Claw 4d6 phsyical, Engulfing 2d10 digest |
| Base level | 22
|
| Speed | 12 |
| Base AC | -4 |
| Base MR | 25 |
| Alignment | -15 (chaotic) |
| Frequency (by normal means) | 1 (Very rare) |
| Genocidable | Yes |
| Weight | 4500 |
| Nutritional value | 1500 |
| Size | Gigantic |
| Resistances | sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance |
| Resistances conveyed | sleep resistance (+50%), poison resistance (+50%) |
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A shadow dragon:
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| Reference | EvilHack 0.8.4 - monst.c, line 1879 |
A shadow dragon, D, is a type of monster that appears in EvilHack. The shadow dragon is a type of dragon that has an affinity to darkness, including the ability to passively emit a dark aura and ultravision that makes dark areas easy to traverse. Like other dragons, shadow dragons are also strong, carnivorous, oviparous, thick-skinned, can see invisible, and are capable of flight - they will also seek out gold, gems and magical items to pick up.
A shadow dragon has a breath weapon that can drain life, a strong bite attack, two strong claw attacks, and an engulfing attack that can digest victims. Shadow dragons possess sleep resistance, poison resistance and drain resistance.
A shadow dragon corpse is poisonous to eat, and consuming a shadow dragon corpse or tin grants +50% (1⁄2) additional sleep resistance and poison resistance.
Generation
Randomly-generated shadow dragons are always hostile. A baby shadow dragon can grow up into a shadow dragon.
Heroes and monsters that polymorph while wearing shadow dragon scales or shadow-scaled armor will turn into shadow dragons.
Shadow dragons may appear among the hostile D generated in throne rooms, and can also appear among the monsters randomly generated by looting a throne while confused and carrying gold (provided there is no chest on the level).
A shadow dragon is generated within the demon prince lair in Gehennom at level creation if it is occupied by Tiamat.
Shadow dragons have a 1⁄3 chance of dropping a set of uncursed +0 shadow dragon scales upon death unless disintegrated, and the chance is reduced to 1⁄20 if the dragon was revived.
Encyclopedia entry
In the West the dragon was the natural enemy of man. Although
preferring to live in bleak and desolate regions, whenever it
was seen among men it left in its wake a trail of destruction
and disease. Yet any attempt to slay this beast was a perilous
undertaking. For the dragon's assailant had to contend
not only with clouds of sulphurous fumes pouring from its fire
breathing nostrils, but also with the thrashings of its tail,
the most deadly part of its serpent-like body.
[ Mythical Beasts by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
"One whom the dragons will speak with," he said, "that is a
dragonlord, or at least that is the center of the matter. It's
not a trick of mastering the dragons, as most people think.
Dragons have no masters. The question is always the same, with
a dragon: will he talk to you or will he eat you? If you can
count upon his doing the former, and not doing the latter, why
then you're a dragonlord."
[ The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin ]
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