The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

Fight Fire With Fire
This is a short additional adventure and is entirely
optional. It concerns the threat posed by
Scallandriax, with whom the Player Characters
may need some additional help to deal.
Against the Black Dragon
The drow’s last and greatest ally, the black dragon
Scallandriax, is powerful enough in his own right to
annihilate an army of human soldiers. Nobody knows
how the drow have managed to enlist his aid, but enlist
it they have. The Player Characters might have a
chance of victory against the wyrm but the drow will
surely destroy them while they fight him; and if they go
for the drow officers first, the dragon will most likely
devour them. The Conclave of Xoth Sarandi has only
one solution to this dilemma. To fight a dragon, one
needs the help of a dragon.
Information: The Fall of Aristeele
According to legend, the noble silver dragon Aristeele
was defeated and cast down by Scallandriax over a
thousand years ago and imprisoned in a labyrinth
beneath Mount Graanek, in the northern part of
Svarth. The legends do not say that she died, but hint
that Scallandriax continued to mock her after her fall.
If Aristeele is indeed still alive, she would make a
powerful ally.
The archivists do not know this, but Yahven the Desolator,
one of the dragons who flew with Scallandriax, was
indeed cruel enough to keep Aristeele alive, bound in
mortal form in a tiny cell (and thus unable to resume her
draconian shape), instead of killing her. Scallandriax
does not know that she still lives. Yahven and his
descendants torment her every day, burning her pale
flesh with their fiery breath and mocking her defeat.
Event: Into Dragon-Haunted Hills
The Player Characters must travel into the most remote
regions of Svarth, the peaks where the chromatic
dragons dwell and no humanoid goes, in search of the
only dragon who can be counted on to side with the
allied powers and prove powerful enough to confront
Scallandriax. Many dragons are not fond of mortal
politics and look with contempt upon the affairs of men,
but Aristeele has a score to settle.
The hills around Mount Graanek are green and pleasing
to the eye, almost like halfling lands. The mountains
are an icy blue, veiled with mist at their heights. The
surroundings suggest a sylvan paradise, not the dragons’
playground that this region is rumoured to be.
This impression is false, of course. The region only
looks peaceful because no humanoids have settled it.
The only creatures here are the wild animals on which
the dragons prey.
Event: Dragon Attacks
The Player Characters soon see dragons flying overhead.
Mount Graanek is the territory of the red dragons,
and they guard it fiercely against incursions from the
greens, who inhabit the forests beyond the hills. Fights
between green and red dragons are common.
Unless the Player Characters have gone to considerable
lengths to conceal themselves (such as with mass
invisibility spells and the like), the indigenous dragons
notice them. Mildly amused at the audacity of these
mere humanoids in venturing this far into dragon lands,
they nonetheless attempt to burn them to cinders. First
a single young adult red dragon attacks, not expecting
the party to be any great threat. After he is dispatched
(as he doubtless will be), the threat is recognised, and
young adult red dragons begin to attack in flocks of five
to six.
The dragons are not stupid and are not willing to send
their brood members out in flock after flock to be
slaughtered. If the Player Characters prove hard to
kill, the dragons appeal to the eldest dragon of all in
Mount Graanek, Yahven the Desolator, to come forth
and parley with them.
Yahven’s Spawn: Huge dragon (young adult); CR 13;
HD 19d12+95; hp 218; Spd 40 ft.; fly 150 ft. (poor);
Init +4; AC 26, touch 8, flat-footed 26; Base Atk +19;
Grp +37; Atk +28 melee (2d8+10, bite); Full Atk +29
melee (2d8+10, bite) and +25 melee (2d6+5, 2 claws)
and +25 melee (1d8+5, 2 wings); Space/Reach 15 ft./10
ft. (15 ft. with bite); SA breath weapon, crush, frightful
presence; SQ blindsense, DR 5/magic, keen senses,
immunity to fire, paralysis and sleep, locate object,
vulnerability to cold, spells, SR 19; AL CE; SV Fort
+16, Ref +11, Will +13; Str 31, Dex 10, Con 21, Int 14,
Wis 15, Cha 14.
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