Cruor

**Cruor**, also known as the **Undead Mirage**, is a Greatwyrm Dracolich, ridden by Frizum Kriuth.

## Description

### Appearance

Cruor is a three thousand one hundred sixty-seven year old Black Dragon Dracolich, dubbed the "Undead Mirage" due to his terrifying, skeletal and rotten appearance, as well as his habit of casting a thick smog whenever he intends to strike. His own rib cage protrudes out of his chest, and his head is nothing but a skull, with hollow eyes and sharp serrated teeth. His arms are briefly covered by rotten flesh and a strange purple fur, unusual to the draconic scales typically seen on dragons.

Cruor's size is smaller than it should be for a Greatwyrm, only barely reaching the level of gargantuan. However, it gives him nimble agility that dragons of colossal size do not have, while also giving him the same virtual mass and force behind his strikes that'd belong to a dragon of colossal stature. His entire body extends to one hundred twenty-three feet, his tail is forty seven feet long, and his neck is twenty seven feet long. His body is as wide as twelve feet, and his wingspan varies from fifty three feet to one hundred forty-one. He weighs about nine hundred thirty thousand four hundred seventy pounds.

### Personality

Cruor was initially chaotic evil, reigning over a small kingdom of many of Lolth's drow followers that he had enslaved. He had a deep, brewing hatred for the Queen of Spiders, and enjoyed killing her followers in an attempt of rebellion.

Once he met Frizum, his personality had changed to suit him. His alignment surprisingly switched to chaotic good, and he changed his ways. Now, as Frizum describes him, he is *"lazy, unnervingly playful and cheerful, but he can suddenly flip a switch and turn into a force to be reckoned with."*

## Backstory

### Background

Cruor was born into a massive dragon den, to his father Akamir, and his mother Sequira. He had no siblings, and was born with a defect that left him unable to properly fly, resulting in his abandonment while he was still a juvenile.

In his early life, Cruor reigned over an island kingdom of drow slaves and driders alike, which he forced to take on suicide missions in an attempt to dethrone Lolth. Pitifully, the dragon was always cast aside like a toy, and the Queen of the Demonweb Pits considered him a nuisance, and nothing more. He resorted to lichdom after being severely injured on one occasion.

After his rule over the island fell, he was dormant, and only his phylactery remained active. Thousands of years later, he was found by Frizum Kriuth and was properly revived, before being given his true potential. His wings grew twenty-fold their original size, and he began to soar the skies of Calradia, burning down towns and cities at Frizum's command.

After the war between necromancy and Calradia had ceased and the conflict had ended, Cruor settled in Iythos, and began to socialize with the dragons in the Dragonpits, eventually changing his alignment and his ways. He found it more purposeful to enjoy the long years of living ahead of him, than to try and gain political, magical or martial might. After a brief encounter with Mariam in the Dragonpits, Cruor has since learned to be able to take on a humanoid form of his own.

## Creature Information

### Proficiencies and Abilities

Cruor has a unique flame-breath, a mix of hellfire and black ether, producing a mystical lilac and dark color of fire. The flames could burn through any material they caught on, and mixed with his black ether, the plume of flame emitted by his mouth could burn and decay a target all at the same time, resulting in a devastating and fatal combination of magic. Cruor is immune to fire, poison and acidity in general, as well as any form of necromancy. Though, he was exceptionally vulnerable against the cold.