Steel dragon
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- This article is about the fictional dragon. For other uses, see Steel dragon (disambiguation).
Steel dragons were originally known as Greyhawk dragons, and are a fictional race of dragon in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting and later other settings such as Forgotten Realms.
[edit] Nature
Steel dragons are much like the other races of metallic dragon with one primary exception: they prefer to maintain the form of a human (or other sentient race) in order to mingle with, infiltrate and study the cultures of men and their ilk. Because of this, few people know when they are interacting with a steel dragon.
When in human form they will always have a feature which betrays their nature, though it may be carefully concealed. This may be a shock of steel-gray hair, or an eye that appears silvered over with age, or any other feature that resembles their natural complexion.
In dragon form, a steel dragon has hair-like spines around its head and a cat-like body with a vaguely human-like face. Its scales, of course, reseble steel armor.[1]
[edit] Greyhawk
In the World of Greyhawk setting these creatures are known as Greyhawk dragons, as it is known that at least one is deeply involved in the Free City of Greyhawk's affairs.
Within the Greyhawk setting, such dragons are known to have made journeys into other material planes where they have come to be called steel dragons.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Sean K Reynolds and Skip Williams. Steel Dragon (conversion for 3.5 edition D&D). Wizards of the Coast.
- ^ Sean K. Reynolds (January 2006). "Creature Catalog IV: Campaign Classics". Dragon (339): 51-54.
