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Hello and welcome back to the Gallant Goblin.
I’m Theo and today we have an ancient silver dragon.
This was the premium figure from the Icons of the
Realms set of pre-painted minis, Elemental Evil,
which we reviewed recently—you can check out that
video by clicking the "i" in the corner of your screen.
With no further ado, let’s take a look!
In D&D lore, the metallic dragons are generally good
while the chromatic dragons are usually evil.
The silver dragon is known as being the
friendliest, most cheerful type of dragon,
always eager to help people in need.
They generally want to do good deeds,
but they aren’t quite as go get 'em about
it as the gold and bronze dragons are.
D&D dragons are also generally shape shifters,
and silver dragons in particular
enjoy shifting into humanoid form
and spending time with other humanoids.
In fact, it may take up with a whole band of adventurers
who are none the wiser to its true identity.
They do return to their draconic form
to take care of their dragon business
like mating and rearing young and sorting through
their treasure hoard for the 1000th time,
and silver dragons have a habit of losing track of
time despite their 18 Intelligence and 15 Wisdom.
So they’ll return to humanoid
form to visit their old buddies
to find out that they’re now living in
the Waterdeep retirement community.
Speaking of the dragon’s hoard, each type of
dragon has a type of treasure that it prefers,
and silver dragons like relics of humanoid history,
like old coins from ancient empires, art objects, finely
crafted jewelry, and even entire old sailing ships.
In combat, they use cold breath and paralyzing breath,
and they prefer to make their
lairs on cold mountain peaks.
Lots of named silver dragons have
appeared throughout D&D history,
though in 5th edition there haven’t been too many
yet who have appeared in official adventures.
Two that have appeared, and who
both have just impossible names,
are Otaaryliakkarnos who was on the council
of dragons in the Rise of Tiamat adventure
and Karkethzerethzerus from
Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount,
though he is now an ancient silver shadow dragon.
As far as I can tell, though I haven’t
read the entire book cover to cover,
there isn’t actually an ancient silver
dragon in Princes of the Apocalypse,
which is the adventure supported by this mini set.
Ancient silver dragons have a challenge rating of 23
and their stat block can be found in the basic rules.
They are gargantuan in size, and this
mini does have a gargantuan base.
Like most of the Elemental Evil figures, this
fellow is hard to track down right now.
We hear rumblings that there may
be a reprint some time in the future,
at least for the main set of Elemental Evil figures,
but we don’t have any firm or official
knowledge of such a thing right now.
So if you’re interested, maybe
talk to your local game store
and set up maybe an in-stock notice
at your favorite online retailer.
Overall though, another cool dragon
mini to add to your collection,
or to add to your hoard, as it were.
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Do you have a favorite silver dragon
character from D&D or Pathfinder lore?
Let me know.
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