White Dragons

White Dragons

Savage predators

White dragons are the primal berserkers of the frozen north, savage predators who rule glittering glaciers, arctic tundras, and storm-lashed ice caves. Considered the least intelligent among chromatic dragons, they compensate with raw ferocity, unbridled aggression, and a territorial fury that treats any intruder as prey to be shredded and devoured. Their scales are a pristine, bone-white that blends with snowdrifts, often crusted with frost or rime. Short-necked and compact, with a frill of spines along the jaw and a single backward-curving horn crest, they move with a cat-like grace on ice, their hooked claws piercing frozen surfaces for perfect grip.

Whites embody chaotic evil in its most bestial form: impulsive, prideful, and obsessed with dominance despite their relative youthfulness compared to other dragons. They lack the patience for schemes or subtlety, preferring immediate violence—lunging from blizzards, pinning foes with icy breath, or ripping apart victims in a frenzy of claws and fangs. Their breath weapon unleashes a freezing cone of subzero wind that flash-freezes flesh and shatters bone, often used to coat lairs in lethal rime or trap enemies in place. Lairs are carved into remote glaciers or deep crevasses, riddled with slick chasms, collapsing ice shelves, and howling winds that amplify their ambushes.

White dragons hoard gems, frozen trophies, and glittering baubles amid their icy vaults, but their true treasures are the bones of challengers strewn like warnings across the snow. Easily goaded by insults to their size or strength, they nurse grudges with animal tenacity, pursuing slights across leagues of wasteland. In battle, they charge headlong, focusing single-mindedly on the strongest foe while shrugging off lesser threats, their thick hides and cold endurance making them relentless engines of winter's wrath.