Green Dragon

Green dragons, also known as forest dragons or D. Chlorinous Nauseous Respiratorus to scholars and drachonologists, are a variety of chromatic dragons known for their manipulative and self-serving nature. They are considered master conspirators that revel in corrupting lesser creatures.

The most cunning and treacherous of true dragons, green dragons use misdirection and trickery to get the upper hand against their enemies. Nasty tempered and thoroughly evil, they take special pleasure in subversion and corruption. In the ancient forests and jungles they roam, green dragons demonstrate aggression that is often less about territory than it is about gaining power and wealth with as little effort as possible. Green dragons are belligerent creatures and masters of intrigue, politics, and backbiting.

Basic Information

Anatomy

4 legs (2 front, 2 back), 2 wings, 1 tail, a frill that goes from the top of their head to the end of their tail, 2 small horns. Each claw has 3 talons
Green dragons are most notable for the large, waving crest or fin that start at the dragon's nose and run the entire length of the dragon's body. They also had exceptionally long, slender forked tongues.

Biological Traits

Green dragons were most notable for the large, waving crest or fin that started at the dragon's nose and ran the entire length of the dragon's body. They also had exceptionally long, slender forked tongues.

Genetics and Reproduction

Green dragons are reasonably good parents, with both mother and father typically staying close to their eggs while they were incubating. Green dragon females either keep their eggs in a solution of acid or buried them in leaves moistened with rainwater. The green wyrmling is easily mistaken for a black, due to their nearly black scales. As the wyrmling matures, its scales became steadily lighter in colour until they reach the striking green shade of an adult. The wyrmlings typically stay with both parents until they reached adulthood (approximately 100 years).
Female green dragons initiate courtship with males, a process that is reflective of the females' offensive and crass behavior. After impregnation however, the relationship between mated green dragons changes, and a strong bond was formed. Incubation of green dragon eggs continue for about sixteen months, with the eggs being laid at about the four-month mark. The mate pair develop strong ties to each other and wholly dedicated themselves to newly-hatched wyrmlings. Both the mother and father typically stay close to their eggs while they're incubating. Green dragons are the only species of chromatic dragons known to sacrifice their own lives for their brood.
The green wyrmling could be easily mistaken for a black dragon, due to their nearly black scales. As the wyrmling matures, its scales became steadily lighter in colour until they reached the striking green shade of an adult. The wyrmlings typically stay with both parents until they reached young adulthood, at around 51 years of age. Once a green dragon set out on its own, the mated pair went their separate ways, and the bond they formed was broken.

Lifecycle

Wherever a green dragon dies, new and deadly plant life flourish in an area around its corpse. Especially poisonous plants grew and blossom to abnormal sizes extraordinarily fast. These sites are often more connected to the Feywild than the surrounding terrain.

Growth Rate & Stages

Green dragons lay their eggs after about four months of a sixteen-month incubation period They lay clutches of three to five eggs, with an average of two to four hatching successfully under optimal conditions.
The wyrmling stage lasts approximately 6 years. Green dragons reach adulthood around age 160 and become elders after their 950th year. A truly ancient green dragon has lived for at least 1,750 years, give or take a century.





A green dragon wyrmling.

Ecology and Habitats

They build their lairs in forests but they do not like jungles. They will largely prefer a cold tundra forest over a jungle. One of the reasons is that the amount of monkeys or tigers you would need to eat to have the same amount of food as a large elk or bear is just not worth the effort.
A forest controlled by a green dragon is easy to spot. A perpetual fog hangs in the air in a legendary green dragon's wood, carrying the acrid whiff of the creature's poison breath. At the center of its forest, a green dragon chooses a cave in a sheer cliff or hillside for its lair, preferring an entrance hidden from prying eyes. Some seek out cave mouths concealed behind waterfalls or partly submerged caverns that can be accessed through lakes or streams. Others conceal the entrances to their lairs with vegetation.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Any brute can hunt and kill an animal, but it takes a special skill to manipulate a prey into offering itself to you. A green dragon hunts by patrolling its forest territory from the air and the ground. They enjoy the taste of Elf and they also feast on Hill Giants as those are their natural enemy (as baby green dragon is a delecacy to the hill giants). However it eats any creature it can see, and will consume shrubs and small trees when hungry enough.
When hunting, green dragons stalk their prey for extended lengths of time, continuing for days on end, until they can execute a deadly ambush. If a target is weak, the dragon enjoys the terror its appearance evokes before it attacks. It never slays all its foes, preferring to use intimidation to establish control over survivors. Green dragons occasionally release prisoners if they can be ransomed. Otherwise, a creature must prove its value to the dragon daily or die. They revel in the fear they inspire in lesser creatures, and always left at least one survivor whenever possible. Green dragons would take dominion over their victims, interrogating them for information, especially that regarding nearby treasures.
According to sages, scholars, and drachonologists, such as Brandt Korbinan von Ashenfeldt, Oliwier their appetite could be discerned by the direction of their eye movement: lateral movement meant they craved vegetation, while a straight-on stare meant they desired flesh.
Green dragons, as with some other dragon breeds, were unable to chew their food. Hence, to aid digestion, they swallowed small stones, pieces of metal, and even coins, which went into a small second stomach like a bird's gizzard. These stomach stones ground down their food and were eventually expelled in waste.

Biological Cycle

The wyrmling stage lasts approximately six years. Green dragons reach adulthood around age 160 and become elders after their 950th year. A truly ancient green dragon has lived for at least 1,750 years, give or take a century. The oldest known green dragon lived for approximately 2,250 years.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Green dragons valued their territory, but only as a means to gain as much power as possible without expending considerable effort. They would sometimes trade safe passage for a worthy item to add to their hoards. Even so, they were extremely cunning and duplicitous foes, and loved double-crossing others. A traveler who stumbled into a green dragon's territory might be able to bribe the dragon for safe passage, but more often than not the dragon would pretend to agree and then attack the unsuspecting offender once their guard was down. Worse, if the traveler impressed the green dragon during its stay, they might start thinking of the newcomer as a prized possession to be corrupted and sculpted to its will.

Uses, Products & Exploitation

The scales are the most flexible scales of all the dragons which is why it is the perfect material for light and medium armor. Some people also keep the decaying corpse of green dragons for it is the most potent fertilizer in the universe, making it ideal to grow the most difficult to grow plants.

Civilization and Culture

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Green dragons sometimes clash with other dragons over territory where forest crosses over into other terrain. A green dragon typically pretends to back down, only to wait and watch - sometimes for decades - for the chance to slay the other dragon, then claim its lair and hoard.
Green dragons accept the servitude of sentient creatures such as goblinoids, ettercaps, ettins, Kobold, orcs, and yuan-ti. They also delight in corrupting and bending elves to their will. A green dragon sometimes wracks its minions’ minds with fear to the point of insanity, with the fog that spreads throughout its forest reflecting those minions’ tortured dreams.
Green dragons will often compete for terratory with Emerald dragons, and their fierce battles throughout forests are legendary.

Scientific Name

Draco Chlorinous Nauseous Respiratorus

Lifespan

2250+ years

Conservation Status

Green Dragons are (fortunately) quite rare, but in no danger of extinction.

Average Height

• Wyrmling: 5 ft.
• Young: 9 ft.
• Adult: 15 ft.
• Ancient: 20 ft.
• Greatwyrm: 35 ft.+

Average Weight

• Wyrmling: : 320 lb.
• Young: 2,500 lb.
• Adult: 20,000 lb.
• Ancient: 160,000 lb.
• Greatwyrm: 225,200 lb.+

Average Length

• Wyrmling: 16 ft.
• Young: 31 ft.
• Adult: 55 ft.
• Ancient: 85 ft.
• Greatwyrm: 135 ft.+

Average Physique

Green dragons are small and slender in appearance, and will often deceive and misdirect their opponents from a fair fight due to their own lack of physical strength.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

A wyrmling green dragon's thin scales are a shade of green so dark as to appear nearly black. As green dragons age, their scales grow larger and lighter, turning shades of the forests they inhabit. Emeralds and olive greens help them blend in with their wooded surroundings. Their wings have a dappled pattern, darker near the leading edges and lighter toward the trailing edges.

Geographic Distribution

• Gaerood Forest

Related Organizations

• The Crowned Chiefdom of Fionmagh

A green dragon causing immense destruction with its poison breath.

Green Dragon by campbell-white

Green-dragons are Poison

Green dragons are poison-from their blood and fangs to the whispy gases of their breath and the sinister inisuations they whisper to the weak-willed

Green Dragon, Ancient

Gargantuan dragon, lawful evil

Armor Class 21 (natural armor)

Hit Points 385 22d20+154

Speed 40ft Fly: 80ft Swim: 40ft

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STR

27 +8

DEX

12 +1

CON

25 +7

INT

20 +5

WIS

17 +3

CHA

19 +4

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Saving Throws Dex +8, Con +14, Wis +10, Cha +11

Skills Deception +11, Insight +10, Perception +17, Persuasion +11, Stealth +8

Damage Immunities poison

Condition Immunities Poisoned

Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 27

Languages Common, Daconic

Challenge 22 (41,000 XP)

Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead

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Actions

Multiattack. The dragon can use its Frightful Presence. It then makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its claws.

Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 19 2d10+8 piercing damage plus 10 3d6 poison damage.

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 22 4d6+8 slashing damage.

Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +15 to hit, reach 20 ft., one target. Hit: 17 2d8+8 bludgeoning damage.

Frightful Presence. Each creature of the dragon’s choice that is within 120 feet of the dragon and aware of it must succeed on a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw or become Frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the dragon’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

Poison Breath (Recharge 5-6). The dragon exhales poisonous gas in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 22 Constitution saving throw, taking 77 22d6 poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Legendary Actions

The dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Detect. The dragon makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.

Tail Attack. The dragon makes a tail attack.

Wing Attack (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon beats its wings. Each creature within 15 feet of the dragon must succeed on a DC 23 Dexterity saving throw or take 15 2d6+8 bludgeoning damage and be knocked Prone. The dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.