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White Dragons
White Dragons are the smallests of all the cromatic dragons, they are slow witted, but efficient hunters. They are very impulsive and sometimes attack almost like a animal, giving themselves up to pure instincal rage. White dragons live in freezing areas where the tempature rarely rises above zero. A white dragon has a very particular and bizaar eating habit, they will only eat food that has been killed or chilled by their icy breath. Any kills the dragons does not want to eat right away they bury in the snow so it is refrigirated for later.
Here are the White Dragons of the Forgotten Realms
Arauthator
Age:783 Winters
Lair:Lonefang in the Endless Ice Sea
Description:This old white dragon is famous for his great savagery and size, and has gained him self the nickname Old White Death. He has defended his domain of Lonefang for around a hundred years, with the use of his intelligence, a characteristic not normally known to white dragons. It is this intelligence that has earned Aruthator the respect and fear of creatures through out the Endless Ice Sea. Old White Death take special care of his territory and has developed quite an arsenal of detection and entrapment spells and magical items. So beware when trying to sneak up on this great beast because he will literally see you coming from a mile away.
Children:None
Source:Dragons of the North
Cryothan
Age: 1200+ winters
Lair: Great Glacier
Description: Among the great white dragon's of the Forgotten Realms, there are very few that can boast the intellect that Cryothan can. In the case of most white's their intelligence is severely weak, they rely on instinct and natural cunning, not so with Cryothan. Born over a millenium ago he grew up with his parent's. They were killed during his 50th year by attacking a sea vessel that happened to have a magi on board. After the fireballs had ceased their explosions his parent's were already sinking slowly into the ice sea. After that day Cryothan realized the danger that human's are. Since that time he has kept his lair as far from any human settlements as possible. His treasure horde is small, but none the less adaquate. To get the treasure he desires he has mastered a special spell, created by him. Using the various animals on the glacier as spies he is told when any groups of brave or foolish souls enter his territory, then he casts. The spell takes effect as a ghostlike image os a beautiful elven woman. Using the phantom's eyes as his own, he leads the trespassers deeper into the frozen wastes. On the way a favorite tactic is to lead them over a frozen lake and let them break the ice and fall in. Cryothan will then wait until each one is well frozen to leave his own lair and scoop up the bodies. His lair is littered with the half eaten bodies of scores of humanoid's, twice that many of skeletons lay beside them.
Cryothan is not driven by a desire for power, wealth, or territory, he has a very simple outlook: The human race is to be avoided. Strictly following this creed he refuses to show himself to the snow villages to the north of him. Occasionally he enters the town as a traveler and tries to find more to follow him out into the wastes after "The great dragon's lair". Once the adventurers accept him as a guide he leads them out and promptly falls into a patch of ice water, never to be seen again. No sooner than he disappears a ghostly image of an elf appears and history repeats itself.
Children: It is unknown if he has any children. It is a distinct possibility, there have been reports from a few snow elves that small crunshing noises have been heard outside the massive cave, but no evidence has shown itself.
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