Astral Dragon (GAP)

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: The color of the space around me began to change. Before I knew it, the Silver Void was gone, or so it seemed. Everything was now a pale lavender. Had I passed through a color pool without realizing it? Doubtful. I was still propelled by force of will alone.
: Ahead of me, I saw what appeared to be a large, dark gemstone. As I got closer I realized that it was much larger and more distant than I had originally envisioned. It was no mere gem, but an entire citadel made of some black crystalline substance. It was beautiful — as beautiful as the creature who emerged from it was terrifying. A long, graceful neck, a powerful body, and huge fleshy wings identified it at once to be... a dragon! But a dragon unlike any I'd seen before.
:: — From the journals of Tirac Spur, planewalker
The Prime, it has been said, teems with dragons — giving folks just one more reason not to go there. While that's true, out on the planes there's more than a handful of dragons too. Astral dragons are said to have ties to the prime-material world called Krynn, a place so backward that they think all planes beyond their own are the Abyss. If a body sees a tome that places the astral dragon in the Abyss, keep that in mind. Astral dragons, as any leatherhead could figure, live on the Astral.
These immortal creatures are just short of demipowers on a scale measuring might. As dragons go, they're normally not very big - only about five feet long - but they instantly regenerate any wound. Once two of the beasts mate, however, a body's got to show them some respect. They grow to a length of 50 feet and become practically impervious to harm. The interesting thing is, a mated pair is joined by a long chain that keeps them within 100 feet of each other. Chant is, some neutral power (or powers) blesses the union of these golden dragons by giving them the chain as a symbol of their eternal devotion to each other. The type of chain differs for each mated pair. Furthermore, when the dragons receive the chain, they also receive the ability to protect their eternal love by growing and gaining extra powers. The dragons don't look upon the chain as a hindrance, but as a blessing. Go figure.
Astral dragons live in huge palaces of black crystal once they have mated (they wander the Astral, and the planes in general — dipping in and out of color pools — before mating). These beasts are so powerful that the presence of one of their citadels reforms the astral space around it, changing the color and sometimes even the physical laws. They are truly masters of these tiny realms, and only a real addle-cove would cross one in its home.
Once mated, they don't seem to like to leave their citadels, and virtually never leave the Astral Plane. For this reason, they send out tiny kodragons (see below) to gather information for them throughout the multiverse. They don't like to deal with other dragons (except kodragons), and are truly neutral in outlook in every respect. They wield powerful magic — but a smart cutter's going to remember that they don't like to be disturbed.
ASTRAL DRAGON: AC 5 [-5]; MV 6, Fl 18 (C) [15, Fl 48 (B)]; HD 3 [35]; THAC0 17 [5]; #AT 3 [6]; Dmg Id4/1d4/2d6 (claw/claw/bite) [3d20 (x4)/ldl00 (x2)]; SA nil [spells as a 30th-level cleric, radiate fear in a 50' radius with a -4 penalty to save, +12 bonus to attack and damage rolls]; SD instantly regenerates from any wound; MR nil [95%]; SZ M (5' long) [G (50' long each)]; ML average (12) [fanatic (17)]; Int genius (17-18) [godlike (21)]; AL N; XP 420 [40,000].
Notes: Numbers in brackets are for both members of a mated pair. Though they regenerate from any wound, a wish, power word kill, or similar spell can slay them.