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A black dragon lives to watch its prey beg for mercy, and will often offer the illusion of respite or escape before finishing off its enemies.Ī black dragon strikes at its weakest enemies first, ensuring a quick and brutal victory, which bolsters its ego as it terrifies its remaining foes. All chromatic dragons are evil, but black dragons stand apart for their sadistic nature. As it ages, its scales become thicker and duller, helping it blend in to the marshes and blasted ruins that are its home.īrutal and Cruel. When it hatches, a black dragon has glossy black scale. Its tongue is flat with a forked tip, drooling slime whose acidic scent adds to the dragon's reek of rotting vegetation and foul water. A black dragon's head is marked by spikes and horns.

As a black dragon ages, the flesh around its horns and cheekbones deteriorates as though eaten by acid, leaving thin layers of hide that enhance its skeletal appearance. Its curving, segmented horns are bone-colored near the base and darken to dead black at the tips.

With deep-socketed eyes and broad nasal openings, a black dragon's face resembles a skull. They make their homes in fetid swamps and crumbling ruins where kingdoms once stood. These dragons loathe seeing the weak prosper and revel in the collapse of humanoid kingdoms. The most evil-tempered and vile of the chromatic dragons, black dragons collect the wreckage and treasures of fallen peoples.