Monster of the Fortnight: Piast (Lake Dragon)
Waxing Flocktime, CY 612
[Note: still under construction. Will be complete very soon.]
The Piast (Pl. Peiste) is a chaotic good, inland aquatic dragon which
guards the watery entrances to Faerie and other worlds found at the bottoms of
the deepest glacial lakes. Peiste are
able to spit a toxic venom either in a stream as long as its body (50 yards) or
in a cone of mist twenty yards long and ten yards wide. The venom is a neurotoxin, causing all
creatures hit by it to save against poison or suffer a burning sensation which
causes the affected individual to run toward and jump into the nearest
available body of water. Usually, this
happens to be the very lake occupied by the dragon. Although usually lake dragons use this
technique to catch and eat land mammals such as horses, cattle, and sheep, they
will also use it against enemies in a fight.
Piast (Lake Dragon)
Gargantuan dragon, chaotic good
Environment
Aquatic (inland water)
Organization
Wyrmling, very young, young, and juvenile: solitary or clutch (3-6); young adult, adult, mature adult, old: solitary, pair, or family (1-2 and 3-6 offspring); very old, ancient, wyrm, or great wyrm: solitary, pair, family, or hold (1-2 and 3-6 families, only one family of which dwells on the near side of the otherworldly gateway).
Challenge rating
Wyrmling 2, very young 3, young 4, juvenile 5, young adult 6, adult 8, mature adult 10, old 12, very old 14, ancient 16, wyrm 18, great wyrm 20.
Lake Dragon Characteristics By Age
[Table 1 under construction]
Lake Dragon Abilities By Age
[Table 2 under construction]
Damage Immunities
poison, cold
Condition Immunities
poisoned
Senses
underwater echolocation, 500 yards
Languages
Wyrmic (an ancient form of Draconic)
Divine Susceptibility.
Clerics of lawful gods may turn or rebuke lake dragons according to age: juvenile or younger, as ghosts; young adult to old as wraiths; and very old and older as vampires. Note: a "destroyed" result gates the dragon to the adjacent plane to which the gate it is guarding leads.
Bioluminescent effects.
While underwater, lake dragons may use their bioluminescent fringes to perform feats of illusion upon attackers. See table below.
Actions
[Under Construction]
