Chromatus Chromatus is the first and only successfully formed chromatic dragon . Chromatus had the power of all five flights and one head per flight . Though the five - headed dragon appeared dead , because Nefarian never managed to deal with giving it life , the creature was reanimated ( into life , not undeath ) by the Archbishop Benedictus aka Twilight father through the use of a surge needle . It was later rendered inanimate by the united powers of the Aspects , and its body was stored in an Arcane Prison . Background . The monstrosity had been created by Deathwing ' s son , Nefarian . Nefarian had tried to create a new dragonflight that would combine the powers of all five of the other flights . The experiments were considered failures as many whelps had died before hatching or were deformed in many ways . Chromatus was Nefarian ' s final experiment . Chromatus exemplified the pinnacle of all Nefarian had learned through his various experiments , but Nefarian was slain before he could give Chromatus the spark of life . Years later the Twilights Cultists brought the body of Chromatus all the way to Northrend , knowing that they needed vast stores of arcane energy to give him the spark of life . To revive Chromatus the Twilight Father made a pact with the blue dragon Arygos . After being betrayed and killed Arygos ' blood was used to siphoning the magic from Azeroth to the Nexus and from the Nexus into Chromatus . Slowly , the monstrous creature began to move , each head slowly coming alive . Shortly after being animated Chromatus joined the battle against Kalecgos and the blue dragonflight . With the immense power of Chromatus the blue dragons had to retreat . At Wyrmrest Temple , the Chromatus became interested in the captive Kirygosa and wished to mate with her so she could bear his eggs to make the first generation of stable chromatic whelps . However Kirygosa managed to escape just in time . As Kirygosa explained the situation with Chromatus to Ysera , Alexstrasza and Kalecgos , Ysera realized that her vision of the Hour of Twilight might be a result of Chromatus slaughtering the Aspects . So all three Aspects decided that Chromatus had to die before he would grow too powerful and attacked him . After learning about Ysera ' s vision , the Aspects decided to attack a different colored head than their Dragonflight . Ysera focused on the bronze head . Now fully Awakened , Ysera appeared to be a force to be reckoned with , her flight pattern incredibly unpredictable , and staying two steps ahead of the bronze head of Chromatus . Alexstrasza fought the most intelligent head , the blue one , and Kalecgos began fighting the red head . Suddenly , the black and green heads focused on attacking Ysera along with the bronze one . One of Ysera ' s forelegs was caught in a Shadowflame Attack , while the bronze head spat sand that scorched her skin , and the black head bit her wing , taking a chunk of it . Ysera pulls back to heal herself , and then all of the heads begin focusing on the green Dragon Aspect . Finally , the bronze dragons , with Nozdormu at their front , joined the battle . However , the first thing the Timeless One did was to urge them all to retreat , stating that if they had persisted , they all would have died . While Thrall is not a Dragon Aspect , he works as a shaman with the Earth , and offered to give his spirit of Earth in the battle with Chromatus , so that all five Spirits of the Aspects were whole once more . As he prepared a ritual to bind their spirits , the Twilight Dragonflight attacks . The four Aspects renewed their attack upon Chromatus , but this time with a much more unified power . Chromatus faltered , for a moment , all of its heads reared back to attack , exposing its chest . It was in this moment that all four Aspects unleashed the a pure white hue which brought Chromatus to fall . Concerned that some other dark power might try to revive Chromatus after its defeat , the dragons had attempted to destroy the corpse . They had failed . Some powerful spell , probably woven into the dark marriage of magic and technology that had animated him in the first place protected the body from all their efforts to obliterate it . Kalecgos stated that Malygos created a number of Arcane Prisons during the Nexus War , and Alexstrasza decided that representatives from all the flights will watch over the body of Chromatus , as he is not dead . Description . Chromatus body is enormous , far larger than even a Dragon Aspect . And it looks misshapen with its color of an ugly purple bruise on pale skin . In some places , bones are visible . Scales had fallen off , showing skin that was healthy and skin that was decayed . Each of the heads seems to have something amiss with it : a missing ear or an oozing eye . In Thrall eyes Chromatus was not just a dragon , but such a dragon as might have been conjured by a Forsaken ' s worst nightmare . And the most obscene thing is that it does have five heads . Each head was a different color : red , black , gold , green , and blue . Each of the monstrous heads is able to attack with such furor that the entire blue flight had become rattled and panicky . Nevertheless Chromatus was still weak during his first attack . He stumbled and faltered . Sometimes his wings would not bear him but yet the blue flight was unable to stand against him and the twilight dragons . Each head of Chromatus has a brain that knows all the skills of its flight . The green head fixed Ysera with an intense stare , attempting to send the green Dragon Aspect one of her own nightmares . The bronze head can breath out sand . The five heads of the monstrosity can both attack as separate entities and act in eerie unison . Instead of five separate hues from five separate heads , the flames the creature can spewn are dark violet and far more powerful .