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Vacuum dragons are an enigma. See berk, no one's really
sure if they actually exist or not. Oh sure, they're the
barmy in the Gatehouse who rambles on about them, there's
the Dustman who always talks about his friend "Harvey the
Vacuum Dragon", and there's even the Guvner who's supposedly
found the loophole that lets these creatures exist. All this
material here is just conjecture and hearsay, but it very
well could be right, if enough people believed it.
The trouble with vacuum dragons is that you can't see
them. They're about as easy to spot as a yugoloth's morals.
They don't radiate no heat for infravision and detect
invisibility only lets you know that there is something
there, not the form of it. A few bloods have tried using a
wish to see what they look like. Last one that did
that, well, let's just say he's enjoying the Bleaker's
hospitality about now.
Seeing as how most other elemental dragons can speak
other languages, it would make sense that these ones could
too. They speak the language common to all elemental dragons
and at birth have a 21% chance of speaking any known
language. This chance increases by 6% each age category.
Combat: Well, if
anything is known about these enigmatic beasts, it is that
they can fight. Once a group of powerful bloods went looking
for one of these things. No one heard from them for over a
year, until a portal opened and bits and pieces of bodies
came spilling through a portal into some fiendish kitchen in
the Hive ward. Only one of the bodies was intact enough to
identify it, although the Hardheads are still wondering what
happened to the berk's arm (chant goes a fiend ate it while
no one was looking).
Breath Weapon/Special
Abilities: A vacuum dragon doesn't have a breath
weapon, per se, rather, it has what can best be described as
an anti-breath weapon. The attack sucks all breathable
material out of a 60' diameter. Berks can keep the air (or
whatever) in their lungs (or whatever) if they pass a saving
throw vs. breath weapon. If they fail, they are rendered
helpless for the next 1d4 rounds while they gasp for air. If
they pass, they suffer 2d4 points of damage due to the
strain of trying to hold in the air. Creatures that don't
need to breath, such as undead and golems, are unaffected by
this attack.
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- Vacuum dragons cast spells and use their magical
abilities at 15th-level plus their combat modifiers.
- Vacuum dragons are born immune to energy draining,
cold, and air attacks.
- Vacuum dragons are born with the ability to steal
breath. This attack requires a successful to hit roll
on a target, ignoring any armour. If successful, the
victim must roll a successful save vs. death magic, or
die from suffocation.
- As they age, they gain the following abilities:
Very Young: void wall (the opposite of
wall of fog) at will. Young Adult: steal
wind (reverse of gust of wind) three times per
day. Mature Adult: vacuum wall (reverse of
wind wall) three times per day. Very Old:
control vacuum (similar to control weather,
except it allows varying sizes of vacuums) three times
per day. Wyrm: summon void mephit at
will.
Habitat/Society: Not
much is known about vacuum dragons. Presumably, they are
some of the rarest creatures on the planes, perhaps they
don't even exist. Speculatively, they are loners, rarely
leaving their home plane, and even then, only going to
remote, empty regions of wildspace or other elemental
planes.
Vacuum dragons' alignment in relation to law/chaos is all
most exclusively neutral (70%), with occasional lawful or
chaotic bends (15% each). It seems that almost every (98%)
of vacuum dragons are neutral, with the others (2%) being
evil. Strangely, no good vacuum dragon has ever been
reported.
Ecology: Vacuum
dragons do not eat. They subsist on nothing, literally. The
presence of too much material will slowly cause them to
starve. This is supposedly why they keep no treasure; the
nearness of it would starve them.
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