Dragons.
In this plane, they were a race whose intelligence was no less than humanity's.
Moreover, they were born with immense power.
Usually, they merely needed to grow normally with age.
The power in their bloodline would naturally be brought forth.
A textbook Longevity Race Trait.
Living long meant being strong!
Basically, as long as the dragons here developed normally into adulthood, 99 percent of adventurers would be unable to defeat them.
This was especially true of the stronger Dragon Species Branches!
The Red Dragon beneath Haqqatar's feet was one of the more powerful and notoriously evil branches among dragonkind.
It could effortlessly thrash weaker specimens like White Dragons and Black Dragons of the same age.
Across the World of Toril.
Any adult Red Dragon could easily bring utter ruin to remote towns with its incomparably scorching Dragon Breath.
It could also make countless adventurers shake their heads and declare that the mission was impossible to take.
Only a very few exceptionally powerful or bold individuals had a chance to fight such creatures.
As for so-called Ancient Dragons, that referred to a particular stage in a dragon's growth.
Dragons at this stage had nearly reached the limits of ordinary dragons. Even compared to many transcendent demigods, they were not much weaker, and could openly trade blows with them. Beyond that came—Primordial Dragons.
Those were the true pinnacle of Mortal things!
They were also the limit of dragon growth!
After that, only ascension to godhood offered any chance of going further.
So what did an Ancient Red Dragon represent?
It was roughly equivalent to a fairly powerful Combat Type demigod. Dropped anywhere in the mortal world of Toril, it would be a bona fide natural disaster. Destroying cities and toppling nations would be no difficult matter!
It could even give itself