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Contents DescriptionPhysically seeming insubstantial, shadow dragons had dark and translucent scales which helped them camouflage into the darkness around them. Shadow dragons were often mistaken for, but their horns pointed backwards. A long fringe of spines emerged from the back of a dragon's neck and its powerful tail featured a swimming fin. An average shadow dragon was 20 ft - 30 ft (6.1 m - 9.1 m) in length. Combat SensesLike any other, shadow dragons had sharp hearing and sight, which was capable of low-light vision and darkvision. They also had blindsense.
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Combat techniquesA shadow dragon would stalk its prey from the shadows. They had the frightful presence like other dragons and a number of abilities that allowed them to be stealthy and also to move fast.Starting with a predisposition towards mundane hiding, sneaking and jumping. They weren't exactly fast flyers but could move unusually fast on feet for dragons. They learned an increasing number of magical abilities to hide from enemies and movement. A shadow dragon could hide away into shadows and learned over its ages to cast,; and.Once at great wyrm stage, they could fill a large area with darkness. Once this ability was used, a battle was in danger of becoming a one sided matter in favor of the shadow dragon.
The darkness was impossible to disperse with light, magical or not. Creatures without ties to the were practically blind as long as they remained in the area that encompassed a radius of 100 yards (91,44 m). Those with ties to the plane were largely unaffected. This ability was usable multiple times.
Breath weaponA shadow dragon's breath weapon was cone of shadows. Creatures caught in it lost parts of their vitality, skills and spells, possibly permanently, all while temporarily empowering the dragon. They could train their breath weapon to turn those they killed with it into who were then permanently enslaved by the shadow dragon. Physical and mental capabilitiesA shadow dragon had standard physical attacks for a true dragon, biting, clawing, bludgeoning with its wings and/or its tail, crushing on an enemy and sweeping with its tail. But while a shadow dragon could use the standard physical attack forms, a shadow dragon was physically weak compared to other dragons. For example even at great wyrm stage shadow dragons were, in regards of raw physical strength, below a, the weakest of the, at the same stage.In regards of mental capabilities, they eclipsed even and were on par with, the smartest of the metallic dragons.
Defensive abilitiesA shadow dragon had very strong spell resistances and very hard scales. As it grew, it gained an increasingly stronger resistance against spells and non magical physical attacks. Their scales were hard even among dragons and grew only harder with age. All shadow dragons owned an outright immunity against life sapping effects. MagicLike many other true dragons, they developed sorcerer abilities with at least the potential to learn spells usually only open to divine casters as well as from the, and.A sorcerer could form a dragonpact with a shadow dragon.
The pact was called Elusive Disciple of Dusk and gave the sorcerer abilities to flee safely. SocietyMany shadow dragons inhabited the dark places of, such as ruins or abandoned keeps.
These dragons from the were seen in the and the. They could also be found in the.They were found in the, particularly in the and.The god was served by shadow dragons, and they were sometimes sent by him to aid his followers. The same was true for the. Related racesShadow dragons were related to three drow offshots. A special form of, drow, and the draa'zekyl. HistoryAround, a number of shadow dragons joined forces with the and there were a number of known shadow associated with the cult.
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Contents.Synopsis In 1942, protagonists John , Jack , and Charles return to the of Dreams as the last stones of the Keep of Time fall, endangering the Cartographer 's study and the inaccessible 'future' door. As the rages, the Imperial Cartological Society - led by writer/explorer - rebuilds the Keep at the request of the animated shadow, called the 'Shadow King', of antagonist; whereupon the three protagonist Caretakers unite with past Caretakers (the Caretakers Emeritis) at Tamerlane House, built by in the Nameless Isles of the Archipelago. Rose Dyson, the Grail Child;; the owl; and Stellan Sigurdsson retrieve and repair. The Caretakers are betrayed by and but supported when Burton, Doyle, and Houdini defect from the Imperial Cartological Society. Charles and the Fred pursue Defoe and burn down the Shadow King's Keep.When Rose, Archimedes, and Quixote return, the Nameless Isles are under siege by children governed by the Shadow King since 1926, under the sub-antagonist Chancellor Murdoch, who, through the, can command the shadows of all Dragons except of the Dragon Samaranth. The children are driven back by the , and the shadows of the Dragons are prevented from the Nameless Isles.The Shadow King kills Artus, the King of the Archipelago and descendant of; whereafter Kipling reveals himself as an agent of the Caretakers'; Rose Dyson incapacitates the Chancellor; and Stephen, Queen Aven's son, kills him with Caliburn. Finally, Rose frees each of the, leaving Samaranth the last dragon alive.
Stephen becomes the new King of the Archipelago, and the Dragonships, now soulless, are no longer allowed past the Frontier between worlds. John, Jack, and Charles are returned to Oxford and to their own time, and forge a full alliance, to be implemented in seven years, with Burton and the Imperial Cartological Society.Characters The Caretakers Current John/ is the series' protagonist and second-eldest Caretaker, aged near fifty.
Since the first novel (set roughly 1916), 'Caretaker Principa' of the Imaginarium Geographica. Under the tutelage of a former Caretaker, Prof. Stellan Sigurdsson, until Stellan's murder.Jack/ is the youngest Caretaker, aged around forty-four; now teaching at Oxford, but the most easy-going of the trio. He is particularly affected by the Winter King's weapon, the.
The reincarnation of disconcerts Jack initially, until he teaches Nemo to become the eponymous hero.Charles/ is the eldest Caretaker, aged around fifty-six years old.
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