Blue Dragon

Biodata

Appearance

• Scales: Blue coloration ranges from sky blue to indigo. Leilia’s scales are smooth, reflective, and gemstone-like 29 36.
• Head: A distinctive horn rises from the snout above the nostrils. Storm Fang also has large, wrinkled, fan-shaped ears 29 37.
• Eyes: Storm Fang’s pupils resemble lightning, while Leilia and one of the young blue dragons have amber eyes 29 36 38.
• Spines: Zephyro Theralis has sharp spines running from his head along his back to the tip of his tail 37.
• Wings: Long, narrow, pterosaur-like wings have membranes extending to the tail, helping them catch rising air 36.

Temperament and Society

Solidarity and Pride

Blue dragons display a stronger sense of solidarity than the other chromatic dragons. When Sol defeats Zephyro, the nearby blue dragons advance together to defend him. Nevertheless, Zephyro feels disgraced by his public defeat and interprets his companions’ looks as contemptuous 38.

They consider themselves Tiamat’s rightful heirs and dismiss red dragons as brainless brutes. Their pride initially makes them reluctant to overwhelm Sol in front of witnesses, since doing so would appear to confirm his accusation that they are cowards dependent on numbers 38. After further clashes, the oasis’s blue dragons become angry enough to abandon that restraint 46.

Raising Young

• Blue dragons regard their offspring as property and generally provide some care, expecting dangerous service once the young mature 5.
• They also collect other chromatic dragons’ eggs under the name of adoption. Sol regards this practice as a means of raising servants for territorial expansion 34.
• At Blackrock Fort, newly admitted wyrmlings enter the clan’s communal care rather than remaining under a parent’s exclusive control 36.
• Leilia serves as the clan’s wyrmling nurturer and forbids the young dragons from killing one another in fights 36 38.
• Communal care does not imply affection: Leilia threatens the noisy wyrmlings and leaves them shortly after introducing Sol’s group 37.

Territory and Followers

• Blackrock Fort’s blue dragon family is described as the wilderness’s strongest dragon faction when Chilier joins it 35.
• Storm Fang commands blue, green, black, and white dragons, later adding Chilier and her red dragon offspring 35 37.
• A half-orc tribe of roughly one hundred members tends cattle on the Kaqino Grassland in exchange for his protection 30.
• The oasis wyrmlings receive food deliveries from half-orcs and kobolds, but competition leaves some dragons without enough to eat 40 43.
• Blue wyrmlings rest buried in sand, exposing only their snout horns and nostrils 46.

Abilities & Skills

Lightning Breath

Blue dragons breathe bolts of lightning accompanied by thunder and the smell of ozone 42.

• Their breath weapon is described as having the greatest speed and longest range among chromatic dragons’ breath attacks 42.
• Coordinated lightning attacks injure Sol, numb his muscles, and knock him out of the air 42.
• Lightning can ignite Sol’s combustible smoke, allowing him to turn their attacks into explosions 37 42.
• Its speed is not an absolute guarantee of a hit: after further template enhancements, Sol evades the young blue dragons’ lightning breath 48.

Flight

Blue dragons have a natural affinity for wind and lightning, with bodies particularly suited to flight. They are described as probably the fastest chromatic dragons 36.

• Their extended wing membranes support efficient soaring on warm air currents 36.
• Leilia easily outpaces Sol, Xisitana, and Kalpu while escorting them from Blackrock Fort 36.
• Among the young dragons opposing the enhanced Sol, only the blue dragons can initially offer meaningful aerial resistance 47.

Innate Magic

Young blue dragons begin awakening racial magical abilities 37.

• Create Water: Listed among their early magical abilities 37.
• Lesser Immunity to Lightning: An early defensive ability; the passage does not establish complete lightning immunity at this age 37.

Physical Combat

Blue dragons fight with claws, teeth, tails, and bodily force 37 42.

• Among the young chromatic dragons confronting Sol, the blue dragons are the ones capable of offering the closest resistance to a red dragon in direct combat 47.
• Red dragons retain advantages in physique and vitality: Xisitana and Kalpu briefly hold off larger blue dragons despite their smaller size 42.
• Their scales do not prevent severe burns from Sol’s unusually powerful fire breath 41.

Notable Blue Dragons

Story Role / Major Arcs

Expansion and Sol’s Capture

The blue dragons’ territorial expansion is already driving conflict in the wilderness when Lunaris explains that the centaurs need human weapons and armor to equip their warriors 13.

Storm Fang later learns that unidentified young dragons are living on the Kaqino Grassland. He kills a half-orc for failing to identify their number or kind, then orders the survivors to capture a young dragon alive. His followers track and attack Sol, but Sol defeats them and prepares to flee 29 30 32 34.

Chilier intercepts Sol before he can escape. Having joined Blackrock Fort, she brings all three of her offspring into the clan, where Storm Fang places them under Leilia’s supervision 35 36.

Rivalry at the Oasis

Sol’s defeat of Zephyro begins an ongoing rivalry with the blue wyrmlings. Disputes over food escalate when Sol attacks several blue dragons and distributes some of their food to hungry white wyrmlings 37 38 40 41.

The ensuing battle leaves nearly every participant injured, with no clear winner. Nevertheless, Sol gains enough fear and recognition to establish his position among the oasis’s young dragons 42 43.

The Three-Color Coalition

Green and black dragons recruit Virix and his companions into a joint attack after ambushing Xisitana and Kalpu. The blue dragons form the coalition’s front line, but Sol’s newly enhanced strength and explosive rock projectiles overwhelm them 45 46 47.

The remaining airborne blue dragons also fail to stop him. Their defeat removes the coalition’s principal aerial opposition, allowing Sol to pursue the green dragons he identifies as the organizers 47 48.