Dragon

Dragons are ancient magical creatures from the ancient past of Midkemia in Betrayal at Krondor and its novelization, Krondor: The Betrayal.

Betrayal at Krondor

Dragons are gifted with the knowledge of their own fate and death. They were once ruled by the Valheru, who were therefore known as the Dragon Lords. The statue of Malac's Dragon commemorates the slaying of the flamewyrm Rhandra by Malac, a self-proclaimed hero of Kingdom antiquity.

Dragons were seen swarming the skies during the Battle of Sethanon.

The moredhel warleader Murmandamus bore a distinctive purple birthmark on his chest which resembled a dragon in flight.

The grave of Marlen Shephard has an epitaph reading "Threw a stone at a dragon." It contains a +6 Dragon Stone.

An engineer in Raglam called an employer who cheated him a "dragon lover."

In the dwarven game of square stones, a throw revealing a dragon marking on the upper face of two stones is called a "double dragon," and the first player to yell "Klapka!" and grab the other's stone wins the pot.

Chapters 1-3, 6

Naddur Ban Dok can tell the party about the dragon Rhuargh, who once inhabited the lower levels of the Mac Mordain Cadal before his death and, still worshipped by the kobolds who live there, is an object of their periodic religious quests.

The party can receive advice from the Oracle of Aal, last of a race older than dragons or Valheru, who inhabits the body of a golden dragon.

Chapter 8

Pug explains that the black dragon-shaped helm worn by Delekhan could only have been obtained from the Sethanon Caverns, where its original owner, Murmandamus, was slain. Delekhan, therefore, could only have obtained the helm from someone who had been inside the caverns, narrowing down Pug's list of suspects for the instigator of the current conflict.

Chapter 9

Warning! This article contains plot or ending spoilers.

Arriving in the Oracle's chamber in the Sethanon Caverns, the party learns that an enemy has kept the Oracle from contacting Pug by wearing an amulet which weakens its draconic body. Pug speculates that such a device could be a relic of the Valheru Lyron-Baktos, the Master of Dragons.

Epilogue

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Pug creates an illusion of Murmandamus and Delekhan being swept from a high tower by the tail of an enormous golden dragon from whose back he exhorts the assembled moredhel forces to eschew the false prophecy that led them to attack Sethanon.

See Also

• Wyverns, lesser relatives of dragons
• Dragon Plate Armor
• Dragon Stone, an armor enhancer
• Dragon's Breath, a spell to increase Stealth by fogging the area
• Dragontail, a well which can raise the drinker's Strength

Krondor: The Betrayal

The party visits a dragon statue which can be used to contact the Oracle of Aal, who appears as a massive dragon.

Gorath describes Delekhan as wearing Murmandamus's dragon helmet, providing Pug with a valuable clue. Murmandamus himself had a dragon birthmark on his chest.

Gorath recounts that the Valheru's enormous dragons used to gather in circles on the plains of Sar-Sargoth while their riders met in conclave.

The masks used to traverse gas-filled tunnels in the naphtha mines are made of bone and dragon-lung membrane.^[1]

Pug points out that the vast tunnels in the Sethanon Caverns would be a tight squeeze for a dragon, and the dragons ridden by the Valheru were large.

The party finds the Oracle of Aal magically weakened in a huge chamber, and enters the adjacent Lifestone chamber through a hole created by a long-ago fight between a dragon and a Dreadlord.

Warning! This article contains plot or ending spoilers.

The Oracle takes part in the illusion designed by Pug to end the battle by allowing Pug to ride her while she flew above the city and breathed fire to incinerate his illusions of Murmandamus and Delekhan.

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