Blue Dragon Wyrmling

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Blue Dragon Wyrmling

The youngest of the blue chromatic dragons — desert-storm predators barely out of the egg, already armed with a line of lightning breath, a flying speed of 60 feet, and intelligence enough to understand speech (as Baelgrum proved when a 1st-level Command: "Halt" dropped one out of the sky in Session 53).

Two blue dragon wyrmlings flew air support for the Cult of the Dragon's undead strike force in the Battle of Nuts Deep (Session 53). One was ensnared out of the sky by Keyleth (super-inspiration auto-crit, Ensnaring Strike, Hellfire Pixies); the other was halted mid-air by Baelgrum's Command, forced to land on the wall, poisoned, and finished by Gootcha's crossbow.

Combat Notes

  • CR 3 (confirmed at the table). Medium size — no rideable wingspan here.
  • Lightning breath: a line of lightning; Dex save (DC 22 was quoted with situational modifiers) for 28/14 damage. It downed squire Whippoorwill in one blast; Gootcha's Evasion zeroed it.
  • Flies rather than hovers — a wyrmling that cannot act can still land, but cannot stay aloft.

Harvest Profile

CR 3 — rarity ceiling Uncommon; 3–5 component slots per carcass. One harvest check per character; see Monster Harvesting for the rules — including the natural-20 rule this creature occasioned: a nat 20 can pull a component one rarity level above the ceiling.

Component Tool column Rarity Notes
Storm-Quickened Heart Herbalism / Alchemist's Rare (above ceiling — natural 20 only) A wyrmling heart still drumming with storm vitality; potent restorative and storm essence
Stormspark Gland (signature) Alchemist's / Poisoner's (hazardous gland) Uncommon The lightning-breath organ; discharges in a crackling burst
Galvanic Ichor Poisoner's Uncommon Nerve-numbing shock-toxin rendered from the breath organs; paralytic base
Azure Scale Coat Smith's Uncommon A wyrmling's worth of blue scales; storm-warded plating
Cerulean Wyrmhide Leatherworker's Uncommon Supple young dragonhide; light storm-warded leather
Storm-Etched Ink Calligrapher's Uncommon Chromatophore fluid that writes in faint sparks; lightning-sigil reagent
Sapphire-Gleam Eyes Jeweler's Uncommon A pair of gemlike eyes; gem-focus stock with a storm-sight gleam
Wyrmling Fangs & Talons Smith's / Thieves' (fine work) Common Structure and edge stock
Sparking Blood Alchemist's Common Faintly charged; structure only
Scale Shards Smith's Common Loose scale salvage; structure only

Harvested by the company in Session 53 — both carcasses worked; see the Harvested Materials ledger for who recovered what. (Component assignments were drafted in post-session processing from the rolls recorded at the table — DM corrections welcome.)