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Old August 30th, 2008, 02:19 AM
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Default Re: Cataclysmic Dragons

Next up is the Avalanche Dragon. Feared by men and jotuns alike, the massive Avalanche Dragon is but an enormous Wyrm, without limbs or wings. Crushing huge trees in it's path to splinters, and freezing all around it, this dragon makes it's home in the vast northern glaciers, which it burrows into, creating enormous tunnels in the diamond-hard ice like a common worm might burrow into an apple.

Although quite tough and strong, the Avalanche Dragon lacks the combat abilities of many of it's brethren. As a size 6 trampler, it's fine against small troops, and it's bone-crushing bite is indeed something to fear, but at first glance, it's not the most versatile or powerful of the dragon breeds. It does have a very good cold aura, and it gains Protection in cold areas, but it's not much better than a Behemoth in warm lands, and it's slow movement (1) makes it harder to use as an SC. It also lacks magical diversity, having only Water, and all other paths at 125.
It's true might lies in two special abilities that it possesses: First of all, it has a devastating breath weapon-good range, good area, good damage, and numbness. Secondly, it has the ability to lay eggs.

These eggs are it's best feature: They have Fear (0), a cold aura, a lot of hitpoints, and also gain Prot. in cold. And they can hatch. Their Secondform-if the eggform is destroyed-is that of a ravenous Icewyrm:
size 3, Fear (2) 2 magical bites per round, cold aura, berserk, and blind. The Icewyrms will only remain for a single battle, but enough of them together can do a lot of damage, and even a single one can be difficult to take down.
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