Silver Dragon

Dragons of Virtue

Silver dragons believe that living a moral life involves doing good deeds and ensuring that one's actions cause no undeserved harm to other sentient beings. They don't take it upon themselves to root out evil, as gold and bromze dragons do, but they will gladly oppose creatures that dare to commit evil acts or harm the innocent.

Silver Dragons

The friendliest and most social of the metallic dragons silver dragons cheerfully assist good creatures in need.
A silver dragon shimmers as if sculpted from pure metal, its face given a noble cast by its high eyes and sweeping beard-like chin spikes, A spiny frill rises high over its head, tracing down its neck to the tip of its tail. A silver wyrmling's scales are blue-grey with silver highlights. As the dragon approaches adulthood, its colour gradually brightens until its individual scales are barely visible. As a silver dragon grows older, its pupils fade until its eyes resemble orbs of mercury.

Friends of The Small Races

Silver dragons enjoy the company of other silver dragons. Their only true friendship outside their own kin arise in the company of humanoids, and many silver dragons spend as much time in humanoid form as they do in draconic form. A silver dragon adopts a benign humanoid persona such as a kindly old sage or a young wanderer, and it often has mortal companions with whom it develops strong friendships.
Silver dragons must step away from their humanoid lives on a regular basis, returning to their true forms to mate and rear offspring, or to tend to their hoards and personal affairs. Because many lose track of time while away, they sometimes return to find that their companions have grown old or died. Silver dragons often end up befriending several generations of humanoids within a single family as a result.

Respect For Humanity

Silver dragons befriend humanoids of all races, but shorter-lived races such as humans spark their curiosity in a way the longer-lived elves and dwarves don't. Humans have a drive and zest for life that silver dragons find fascinating.

Hoarding History

Silver dragons love to possess relics of humanoid history. This includes the great piles of coins they covet, minted by current and fallen humanoid empires, as well as art objects and fine jewelry crafted by numerous races. Other treasures that make up their hoards can include intact ships, the remains of kings and queens, thrones, the crown jewels of ancient empires, inventions and contraptions, and monoliths carried from the ruins of fallen cities.

Basic Information

Growth Rate & Stages

Dragon Type	Size	Age Range
Wyrmling	Medium	5 Years or Less
Young	Large	6-100 Years
Adult	Huge	101-800 Years
Ancient	Gargantuan	801+ Years

Ecology and Habitats

Silver dragons dwell among the clouds, making their lairs on secluded cold mountain peaks. Though many are comfortable in natural cavern complexes or abandoned mines, silver dragons covet the lost outposts of humanoid civilization. An abandoned mountaintop citadel or a remote tower raised by a long-dead wizard is the sort of lair that every silver dragon dreams of.

Additional Information

Facial characteristics

A silver dragon shimmers as if sculpted from pure metal, its face given a noble cast by its high eyes and sweeping beard-like chin spikes. As a silver dragon grows older, its pupils fade until its eyes resemble orbs of mercury.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

• Blindsight
• Darkvision
• Passive Perception

Civilization and Culture

Major Language Groups and Dialects

• Kelldorian,
• Draconic, and
• Amorian Language 

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Metallic Dragons

Origin/Ancestry

Draconic

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

A spiny frill rises high over its head, tracing down its neck to the tip of its tail. A silver wyrmling's scales are blue-grey with silver highlights. As the dragon approaches adulthood, its colour gradually brightens until its individual scales are barely visible.

A Silver Dragon's Lair

Silver dragons dwell among the clouds, making their lairs on secluded cold mountain peaks. Though many are comfortable in natural cavern complexes or abandoned mines, silver dragons covet the lost outposts of humanoid civilization. An abandoned mountaintop citadel or a remote tower raised by a long-dead wizard is the sort of lair that every silver dragon dreams of.

Lair Actions

On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects:

• The dragon creates fog as if it had cast the fog cloud spell. The fog lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round.
• A blisteringly cold wind blows through the lair near the dragon. Each creature within 120 feet of the dragon must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 5 (1D10) cold damage. Gases and vapours are dispersed by the wind, and unprotected flames are extinguised. Protected flames, such as lanterns, have a 50 percent chance of being extinguised.

Regional Effects

The region containing a legendary silver dragon's lair is warped by the dragon's magic, which creates one or more of the following effects.

• Once per day, the dragon can alter the weather in a 6-mile radius centered on its lair. The dragon doesn't need to be outdoors: otherwise the effect is identical to the control weather spell.
• Within 1 mile of the lair, winds buoy non-evil creatures that fall due to no act of the dragon's or its allies. Such creatures descend at a rate of 60 feet per round and take no falling damage.
• Given days or longer to work, the dragon can make clouds and fog within its lair as solid as stone, forming structures and other objects as it wishes.

If the dragon dies, changed weather reverts to normal, as described in the spell, and the other effects fade in 1D10 days.