Mētar tarakonas were a type of tarakona distinguished typically by the color and composition of their scales, that was like that of various metals, hence the name. They were generally good, altruistic, and righteous creatures. Despite their relatively benign nature, Mētar Tarakonas were also aggressive when threatened or challenged. They usually worshiped Bahamut, whom they regarded as their king.
Known Variants
Gold Tarakonas
Gold tarakonas were the most powerful and majestic of the classic metallic tarakonas. They are wise, lawful good foes of evil and injustice. Gold tarakonas were very knowledgeable and reclusive. They preferred stone lairs and had a cone of fire as a breath weapon.
Silver Tarakonas
Silver tarakonas were regal, lawful good creatures who often took a humanoid form and lived among humans and elves. Their breath weapon was a cone of freezing cold, and they normally laired in mountains. They were very smart and preferred not to fight unless necessary.
Bronze Tarakonas
Bronze tarakonas were inquisitive tarakonas with a fierce appearance and a fascination for warfare. They would often seek to fight evil, and would join good-aligned armies in a humanoid form. They were lawful good, lived in coastal areas, and had an electrical breath weapon.
Copper Tarakonas
Copper tarakonas were born pranksters, jokesters, and riddlers. They were chaotic good and lived in rocky mountains. Copper tarakonas had an acid breath weapon but preferred to avoid combat altogether, instead taunting and teasing foes until they left.
Brass Tarakonas
Brass tarakonas were extremely talkative and loved the intense heat of deserts. They often engaged foes and friends alike in hours of long-winded conversation. They avoided combat if possible, but would use their breath weapon, a cone of sleeping gas, to subdue foes if threatened. They were the weakest of the classic metallic tarakonas, but still chaotic good.
Mercury Tarakonas
Mercury tarakonas were whimsical, impulsive creatures. They delighted in unpredictability and were reputed to be mentally unstable as well.
Electrum Tarakonas
Electrum tarakonas were peaceful and philosophically inclined and they preferred to live far from civilized areas.
Iron Tarakonas
Iron tarakonas were powerful, dangerous predators. While most had a neutral alignment, some were actually evil.
Steel Tarakonas
Steel tarakonas were sociable, clever, and curious, and they preferred the company of humanoids rather than tarakonas. They often clandestinely lived in humanoid cities, and spent much of their time in a humanoid form. They were either lawful neutral or lawful good, and breathed a cone of poison gas.
Platinum Tarakonas
The rarest, largest, and most powerful of the metallic tarakonas, platinum tarakonas represented the epitome of the metallic tarakonas. Many believed that only one ever existed.
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