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Gray Dragon

The gray dragon is likely the most avaricious, ill-tempered, and Consummate Hunter. Driven by its predatory nature, the gray
feral of all dragons. It lives to hunt for sport, more obsessed dragon prefers to fight by just using its teeth, claws, and tail, often
with the act of stalking and bringing down powerful prey than delivering the killing blow before its target can react. At times the
accumulating wealth. It is prone to fits of rage such that the gray gray dragon will toy with its prey, tormenting it by telling how futile
dragon would rain death and destruction to every random habitat it is to escape, and even mimicking voices it has heard to distract
and settlement within miles of its lair. It dwells in temperate or lure the target. It sees it as a testament to its hunting prowess
regions that have high rocky outcroppings surrounded by low to bring down formidable creatures with just its cunning, hunting
flatlands. skill, and physical attacks. Thus, it rarely uses its breath attack
Spiked Horror. The gray dragon is covered in armor-like, bony unless it believes its life might be in danger. The gray dragon's
plates called osteoderms, with spikes protruding from its forearms elemental breath is a cone of caustic, viscous slime. The slime is
and limb joints. Its head features a crest of long, sharp spikes, with so sticky that it continues to dissolve the flesh of its victims for a
smaller ones jutting below its oversized jaw like a garish beard. A time after the initial contact.
jagged line of barbs runs from the back of its head and along its Guarded Lair. A gray dragon often leaves its lair for extended
spine, and its forked tail ends with two wicked scythe-like bony periods to hunt. Before doing so, it seals its den, where it keeps
plates which it uses to impale prey. A fang-filled mouth and a pair its vast treasure piles, with boulders and slabs of granite and
of long ears give the gray dragon a bat-like visage. limestone. The lair’s outlying chambers are usually patrolled by
Earth Connection. It is said that gray dragons evolved from the gray dragon’s minions, which are often basilisks, cockatrices,
fang dragons, an extinct type of bestial dragon that had no breath earth elementals, galeb duhr, medusae, ooze paraelementals, and
weapon. Legend has it that Tiamat, the Queen of Dragons, weaved stone giants. These creatures are not necessarily subservient
her dark magic and infused all unhatched fang dragon eggs in the to the gray dragon and see it more as a mutual arrangement of
world with basilisk blood. Since then, only gray dragon hatchlings protection. However, they do fear the gray dragon’s wrath and take
have been born, and each has shown a natural affinity with the extraordinary steps not to incur it.
Elemental nature of Earth, including immunity to petrification.

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