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Mistinarperadnacles
Hai Draco
Venerable red dragon
CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Storm Horns, Cormyr
FREQUENCY: Very rare
ORGANIZATION: Solitary
ACTIVITY CYCLE: Any
DIET: Carnivore
INTELLIGENCE: Exceptional (15)
TREASURE: H, S, Tx2, X
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil (neutral tendencies)
No. APPEARING: 1
A RMOR CLASS: -9
MOVEMENT: 9, Fl 30 (C), Jp 3
HIT DICE: 21 (148 hp)
THAC0: -1
No. OF ATTACKS: 3 + special
DAMAGE/ATTACKS: 1d10 + 10(x2)/3d10+10
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Spells, breath weapon, fear
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Immune to normal missiles & fire
MAGIC RESISTANCE: 55 %
SIZE: G (almost 300’ from nose to tail-tip)
MORALE: Fanatic (17)
XP VALUE: 22,000
Mistinarperadnacles, or Mist as she is more commonly
known, is both a typical and an atypical specimen
of the red dragon species. Physically, she is as
formidable as any red of her age, but psychologically,
she’s most unusual. (See Habitat/Society and Ecology
below for details.)
Her appearance is common for her species. Her
drab rust-colored scales darken to a purplish hue near
her gem- and coin-covered belly. Her mouth is filled
with teeth the size of swords, her yellow eyes are immense,
and she has fleshy “whiskers” surrounding her
mouth, but are most prominent on her chin.
Combat: In combat, Mist is an awesome engine
of destruction. Her claws and bite inflict terrible
damage; she has a variety of spells to choose from
which she casts as a 19th-level spellcaster; her
dragon-fear aura has a 40-yard radius and saves
against it are made with a -2 penalty; she’s immune
to fire and normal missile weapons; and her fiery
breath weapon is a cone 90’ long, 5’ wide at the
dragon’s mouth, and 30’ wide at the terminus. A
blast causes 20d10+10 points of damage. Mist’s spell
collection includes the following wizard (2/2/2/l)
and cleric (1) spells: 1st—charm person, feather fall;
2nd—ESP, wizard lock; 3rd—clairaudience , hold person;
4th—detect scrying; 1st—animal friendship. In
addition, Mist has the following spell-like abilities
(due to her age): affect normal fires three times/day,
pyrotechnics three times/day, heat metal once/day,
suggestion once/day, hypnotism once/day, and detect
gems, kind and number in a 100’ radius three times/
day. For more details on the full combat capabilities
of dragons and red dragons in particular, see the
MONSTROUS MANUAL tome.
Habitat/Society: Like all evil dragons, Mist prefers
to spend her time alone with her treasure hoard. She
is not, however, horrifyingly evil or cruelly vicious.
Mist is rather more refined than that, and perhaps
even a little naive regarding her outlook on life. Mist
finds wanton destruction-say, torching a village just
for giggles-to be extraordinarily dull. She also has
unusual tastes in treasure. Beyond the standard monetary
and magical types of loot, Mist is interested in
music and stories. In fact, she’s gone as far as to kidnap
and hold hostage a bard to entertain her-under
threat of becoming Mist’s next meal, of course.
Ecology: After treasures of all kinds, Mist’s primary
motivation is to assure herself of a steady diet
of warm-blooded prey. While she dines on large animals
such as cattle or horses most of the time, she
looks forward to those times when adventurers come
to her, seeking honorable combat or her ill-gotten
booty. Mist tends to play with her prey, often chatting
with thieves and adventurers before devouring
them. (It’s this chronic underestimation and penchant
for toying with her adversaries that eventually
cost her her life.)
Mist shares her mountain cavern lair with a flock
of large ravens, several of which she’s used animal
friendship on to act as sentries for her.
History: Mist’s first known activity (though she
certainly must have kept herself busy for the hundreds
of years it took to reach her age) was taking
part in the Flight of Dragons that descended on Yulash
and Shadowdale several years ago. While Mist
had nothing to do personally with the death of the
“Witch of Shadowdale,” Syluné Silverhand, she did
learn that mass destruction was not her style.