King @littlefartloser 3h3 hours ago
@TheEdVerse I'm trying to figure out how large a dragon can actually grow in Faerûn. How large is the largest living dragon? The Robert Wadlow of dragons if you will. Is it Klauth?
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No, Klauth is just one of the larger dragons seen in the Sword Coast region. There are wyrms far to the east (“Utter East” and in the north of Raurin) that are far larger (some of them tend and “farm” their own herds of..
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…wild beasts to dine on, in mountain-locked high valleys).
They include a gargantuan gray great wyrm, Ralauthoarindulglaw “the Mountain,” so large its wings can’t lift it off the ground, and whose hide has been adorned down…
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…the years with fused-on sheets of rock and boulders, so that when lying at rest, it resembles a rocky ridge or mountain spur. Elminster says Ralauthoarindulglaw is about a quarter of a mile long, and about sixty feet tall at…
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…its foreshoulders, when on all fours.
Other “big drakes” have been reported, but when creatures get that big, and are typically seen in difficult, remote wilderland terrain, getting exact sizes is difficult.
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So Ralauthoarindulglaw may in fact fall far short of being “the largest living dragon.”
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Yes, but they've been given to TSR long ago, at their (paid) request, and so are NDA.
Sorry. Beholders, too.
Feb 18, 2019 · 8:18 PM UTC
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