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| Metallic Dragons include brass, bronze, copper, gold and silver Dragons. These Dragons are noble and good, highly respected by the wise. Although goals and ideals vary among varieties, all dragons are covetous. They like to hoard wealth, collecting mounds of coins and gathering as many gems, jewels, and magic items as possible. Those with large hoards are loath to leave them for long, venturing out of their lairs only to patrol the immediate area or to get food. For dragons, there is no such thing as enough treasure. It's pleasing to look at, and they bask in its radiance. Dragons like to make beds of their hoards, shaping nooks and mounds to fit their bodies. By the time a dragon matures to the age of great wyrm, hundreds of gems and coins may be imbedded in its hide.
All dragons speak Draconic. General Mating: The Metallic Dragons, of all the dragon families, mate most often for love. They frown upon inbreeding among even distant kin and forbid siblings from mating (a sensible genetic rule some of the wilder chromatics often disregard). Gold, silver, and bronze dragons are nearly always monogamous, often not even taking a new mate after the death of a beloved partner. Some of these metallics will take on an appropriate humanoid form and seek out a mate among their demihuman vassals, with whom they live while they are in polymorphed state. (Interestingly, the strong fidelity inherent to these dragons ascribed to both dragon and demihuman mates.) When this occurs, male dragons can impregnate female demihumans, thus creating half-dragons. Female dragons, however, can never be impregnated by male demihumans, despite being in humanoid form. Event among those dragons who willingly engage in a relationship with a demihuman mate, producing half-dragon young is considered socially unacceptable. Although a dragon may truly love his or her demihuman mate, dragon society as a whole finds the idea of creating half-dragons repugnant. Thus, half-dragons are rare, though they do exist. They take physical form of their demihuman parent, but some half-dragons do show unmistakable signs of draconic blood. Half-dragon offspring are considered, at best, outsiders in the societies of both dragon and demihumans in the Io's Blood isles. Brass dragons, the last metallic type, also make dedicated spouses. They remain partnered to the same mate through most of their lives, though if a loved one dies they often seek out a new partner. Copper dragon on the other hand, follow a more chaotic path. They spend a portion of their lives switching mate frequently, seeking variety and new experiences every time the wind shifts or the seasons change. Upon reaching the mature adult stage, however, they finally settle on a mate for their remaining years. Dragons of all type tend to mate with members of their own type. Gold dragons mate with golds, red dragons mate with reds, and so on. Sometimes they will go against their natural tendencies and mate with dragons of other types. The mixted-appeareance crossbreeds, however, are considered abominations.Metallic dragons simply banish them from their domains (rumors abound that these crossbreeds are sent to other worlds, but this has yet to be proven). |
| Metallic Dragons |
| Imformation based AD&D. |
| Click on those below to view each type of Metallic Dragon: ~ Gold ~ ~ Silver ~ ~ Bronze ~ ~ Copper ~ ~ Brass ~ ~ Return to Types ~ |
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