Aurinax

Aurinax is a male adult gold dragon who can freely ignore Ahghairon s dragonward (see "Ahghairon's Dragonward," page 6) and reside in the city. Maaril, the archmage who last wielded the dragonslaff of Ahghairon, was Aurinax's friend, and invited the dragon to stay with him in the city's Dragon Tower. Shortly before the Spellplague, Maaril went mad and left Waterdeep. entrusting the dragonstaff of Ahghairon to Aurinax. (See appendix A for information on the dragonstaff.) When Dagult Neverember became the Open Lord of Waterdeep, he cut a deal with the dragon. Under its terms, Aurinax could keep the dragonstaff of hghairon in exchange for guarding a vault beneath the city. When Neverember eventually removed the treasure from the vault, Aurinax and the dragonstaffcould return to the Dragon Tower. As it happens, no one has come to remove the treasure, and the faithful Aurinax has remained in the vault. The vault is warded against scrying magic, and there's no one left in Waterdeep who knows about Aurinax or the whereabouts of the dragonstaff.