Red Dragon

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Red Dragon
Harper Field Dossier
Combat reference
Type Chromatic dragon (red) — the proudest, greediest, and most terrible of the colours
Vulnerabilities None discovered
Resistances None known
Immunities Fire of every kind
Condition Immunities None known
Strong Saves Shrugs off effects that test reflexes, constitution, willpower, or force of personality
Senses Sees in utter dark; senses hidden things close by without sight; keen of scent and hearing
Movement Flies; at home on cinder, crag, and the slopes of burning mountains
Notable Abilities A cone of roaring fire for breath; a terror that roots the brave, fiercer than most; can refuse binding magic a few times over; arrogant to a fault and quick to wrath
Provenance
Knowledge Well-attested — one slain, its scales worn as armour
First Encountered Session 38
Filed by Agent Wren, of the Tellstone circle

A chromatic dragon. See the Dragon overview and its kin: White, Black, Green, Blue, Red. The red is every child's nightmare of a dragon, and the nightmare is earned. The company has one's hide to prove it. — Wren

The Harpers' Read

The red is the apex of the chromatic kind — vain, avaricious, and incandescent with pride. Its breath is a cone of furnace fire, and fire does nothing to it; bring none. Its terror runs deeper than its cousins', and its temper is a weapon you can turn: a red goaded into rage fights less cleverly. Deny it the high air and the open slope; rob it of its hoard and you rob it of its reason.

Encounters of Record

The company has killed a red and wears the proof: the red dragon Vaartox the Red fell to them, and an artificer worked its scales into Red Dragon Scale Mail (3839). They have the measure of the kind in battle, if not of the eldest and largest.