Orichalcum Dragon (3.5e Monster)

= Orichalcum Dragon =

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''The massive dragon unfurls upon you with proud bearing, roaring its name to the skies in challenge of sacred combat. Scales of a dark brass bristle with electric discharge and shift like sharp, serrated blades in front of your eyes. If there is an ancient beast to best symbolize the illustrious power of metal, it is the Orichalcum dragon.''

Named after the fabled metal of Utopia, the Orichalcum dragon is said to be one of the forebears of the modern metallic dragons. Sharing in their natural inclination towards good, these boisterous battlers lie dormant within places touched by war to find worthy foes to topple. They exhibit great control over metal, capable of both creating and shaping it, and their breath and spell-like abilities allow them to reduce everything to dust.

Orichalcum dragons are rambunctious and fight-loving. They love strong creatures – bodily, but especially mentally – and dissociate from the weak. As such, they almost always live in the most dangerous and inhospitable regions of the mortal realm, where creatures constantly test themselves in order to survive. Places overrun with crime or war, or ancient islands where nature runs rampant in terrible forms are the kind of places where orichalcum dragons feel themselves at home, and lord over those they defeat much the way an alpha male rules its pack. While technically morally responsible, the orichalcum dragon has fairly little business with those it deems weak, but its personal principles will not abide any violence towards those who are incapable of defending themselves. It has little interest in fighting evil unless that particular evil is accompanied by a strength it deems worthy to test itself against in mortal combat.

More even than strength, orichalcum dragons value the burning resolve to become strong, the ambition towards power, and certain specimen of this dragon species have been known to take mortals as their pupils, training them to become strong.

When it comes to their hoard, orichalcum dragons are completely indifferent towards coins and jewelry, but have a profound adoration for fine weapons and armor, especially metal and magical ones.

Combat
An orichalcum dragon's natural weapons and any weapons it wields are considered adamantine and magical (wyrmling – adult) or epic (mature adult – great wyrm) for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.

Orichalcum dragons are relatively weak with their spells and spell-like abilities compared to other primevals, but make up for that with their unparalleled physical might, toughness and savagery in battle.

Breath Weapon : Orichalcum dragons have two breath weapons. The primary is a line of disintegration. A Fortitude save lowers the damage of this breath to 1d6 for every 5d6 damage it would otherwise deal. The secondary breath weapon is a cone of metal shrapnel that deals adamantine slashing, with a Reflex save for half damage. Both use the damage in the breath weapon column of Table: Orichalcum Dragons by Age.

 : Orichalcum dragons are always cloaked in a wreath of static electricity. This gives all their natural weapons an additional 1d6 electricity damage per age category, as well as dealing the same damage whenever a creature touches the dragon’s body or attacks it in melee. An orichalcum dragon always deals the given amount of damage every round during a grapple.

 : Three times per day, an orichalcum dragon of at least very young age can fly into a rage, like a barbarian with the Reckless Rage feat, effective barbarian level equal to the dragon’s caster level.

Immunities: Acid, electricity, disintegration and form-altering effects.

Spells: Orichalcum dragons cast spells as a sorcerer of their effective caster level. Spell DCs are Charisma-based.