Glacier Dragon(Creature, dragon)

Dragon (Air, Cold)

**Environment**: Cold Mountains

**Organization**: Solitary, pair, or family (2-5).

**Challenge Rating**:

**Treasure**: Triple Standard

**Alignment**: Always Chaotic (any).

*4th of Airys, 12th year of the reign of King Alsbret the Eternal*

*I’ve been lost in the Caskan Mountains for nearly two weeks now. Winter is approaching, as if the eternal frost of these god forsaken mountains wasn’t enough in what passes for autumn here. I saw a silver dragon today, a magnificent being who I hoped could save me. I scrambled towards it as fast as my cold body could move, calling out. It heard me, for it looked towards me, but it was to no avail. Something attacked it.*

*At first I couldn’t see what, but as blood splattered on its form I could make it out. The creature was a cloudy white like thick ice. The two dragons fought, ice against ice, but the silver dragon fell victim to its assailant and like a coward I hid myself.*

*I’m out of food, and almost out of firewood. I won’t last another three days. Gods please help me.*

*6th of Airys, 12th year of the reign of King Alsbret the Eternal*

*I blacked out. I thought I was dead. I would be dead now had I not been saved. A great dragon, white and gray like ice, had save me. At first I thought it was the same dragon that had slain the silver drake, and was very frightened. I have since come to learn that while they are the same species they vary greatly on ideological grounds. I suspect that this is a lie, everyone knows the gods made but ten breeds of dragon and for the safety of the lesser races they color coded these dragons so that a single glance could show you which were good and which evil.*

*Even so I have, for now, no choice but to trust my savior even though I fear that it plans some evil if not to use me to commit some evil.*

*12th of Airys, 12th year of the reign of King Alsbret the Eternal*

*I have only now left the abode of my draconic savior and, after a quick ride through the blizzard that rages across the mountain tops, am now once more in the low lands. I have yet to discover what plot the dragon was up to. Perhaps it was telling the truth when it claimed not to be one of those predatory and savage white dragons. Could there actually be more than ten types of dragons?*

Despite what the journal of the famed warblade Ilyon of Greymarsh may indicate, there seems to be well over ten types of dragons, probably more than a hundred breeds in fact. Glacier dragons are a breed found in frozen mountains. They are among the more morally flexible dragons running the gamut from heroic freedom fighters to murderous sociopaths; even so they do have a common tendency towards independence and a hatred of being controlled and manipulated.

Glacier dragons are broad dragons with relatively short limbs, as well as relatively short length in general. Their eyes are a dull yellow-brown at birth, becoming a brighter yellow as they age. Their scales are a bright white at birth but as they age the coloration becomes dimmer and grey begins to be intermixed looking in the end like the icy surface of frozen water.

Glacier dragons are in many ways similar to white dragons. Both have similar colors (especially when newly born), similar habitats, and often similar habits as solitary predators. Even their breath weapons are similar, with only a difference in the sheer intensity. Even so the differences are quite noticeable to dragon hunters. Glacier dragons are bigger, and physically stronger than a white of the same age. They are smarter, when young their intelligence is comparable to a red’s of the same age though they do not gain intellect as swiftly. They have more powerful magic, albeit only slightly. Their senses are keener, able to track creatures by scent or even detect their footsteps. They also have several powers that channel the most brutal and fierce parts of the nature of frozen regions, as opposed to white dragon’s fog based abilities.

Special Abilities:

**Breath Weapon (Su)**: A glacier dragon has a single breath weapon, a cone of cold dealing the listed damage (Reflex save halves).

**Icewalking (Ex)**: As the spider climb spell, but the surfaces the dragon climbs must be icy; always in effect.

**Spells**: A glacier dragon casts spells as a sorcerer of the listed level. They may also select spells from the Air, Cavern, Cold, and Dragon domains as arcane spells.

**Frigid Bite (Su)**: An old or older glacier dragon’s fangs radiate supernatural cold. This cold has the effect of freezing the life of those the dragon bites dealing 2 Dex damage to any creature bit by the glacier dragon. If this Dex damage should reduce the creature’s Dexterity to 0 the creature instantly dies, completely frozen from the inside out. A creature immune to cold damage is immune to this effect.

**Spell-like Abilities**: 3/day: *Control Temperature* (juvenile or older), *Iceberg* (great wyrm); 1/day: *Call Avalanche* (Adult or older), *Frostfell* (ancient or older). All spells are from *Frostburn*.