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Paths of power

Io - lord of All

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I have created a powerful dragon within the greater dnd multiverse, a traveler, sage, trickster, and supreme master of magic.

My dragon is a hybrid between a red and silver dragon ( their backstory will be posted later) this rose gold dragon practices three paths of power. Wizardry, sorcery, and psionics. This dragon became a master in all three of them, and became a great wyrm. After this, the dragon came upon a realization, that the next step into his path of power was to become a god, to traverse their realms, to LIVE and EXPERIENCE, what no mortal truly could. But godhood limits and constrains, clips your wings and binds you to divine law.

So the dragon hatched a plan. He would absorb the essence of gods, primordials, and psionic magic. He would imbue these essences with HIS will, personality, his BEING. Tuning the power to suit him, primordial chaos and entropy to creativity and joy, divine rigidity with his free spiritedness and wonder.

He imbued the primordial essence into his body, the divine into his soul, and the psionic into his mind, and ascended beyond mortality.

And when this dragon ascended he became a tri fold god, not mortal, yet not a true god, he did not need worship to sustain his power, it can add to it, but he requires FAR more to gain more power. And his level of power is that of an upper intermediate deity.

Also, his scales are rose gold in color, silver at the edge some, red at the edge of others. He has the horns of a red dragon and a black dragon, and a muscular and lithe physique, as well as the silver dragons Mohawk.

As a god level being, his scales are black, with iridescent colors, one within each scale. His horns, teeth, claws, and other such parts are prismatic white, with shimmering colors within them. His eyes are gold in the iris, the rest a deep abyssal black, with star like pinpricks within them.

This dragon started as most dragons do, with his innate magic, sorcery, which is a mix of fire and ice magics. Also, for clarity this dragon is of the chaotic good bent, so mix a silver and copper dragon together, and you would be quite close to my dragon. He is fond of other races, and quite quick to defend them, but, he has a philosophy, which is “ while I shall fight evil wherever I find it in my travels, I do not seek out evil,” . This of course means that my dragon loves to travel, and does so quite often.

But again, to the magic, he first began to learn and practice sorcery, mastering it to a respectable degree. Arlin his 50th year he began to learn wizardly magics and learned that alongside his sorcery. And at his 100th year he began to learn psionics. Again, a bit fast, but there IS precedent for this. In a MrRhexx video he showed a young dragon who was quite powerful in magic at a young age, one who he implied was all but guaranteed to become an ancient dragon. So, we’ve described the how, but what about the WHEN. As I am sure you know a great wyrm is over 1,000 years old, so he has had copious time to master his three disciplines of power.

So, the why? Well, it is more like, ‘why not’ , this dragon sought a god like existence, because, 1st, he wanted to see if it could be done, 2nd, there are things that only a god can see, do, and experience, so gaining this power would allow for this. And 3rd this dragon LOVES magic with such a joy and passion that, the puzzle of gaining this power, the time, research, resource accusation, and raw power create a arcane puzzle that would entertain him for years.

Now, for the power, that is both simple and complicated. So, he absorbs the essence of divinity, primordial, and psionics, in absurd amounts. He searched for and found the corpses of dozens of primordials, to gain the essence of fire, water, earth, air, light and dark, and from them all other elements. For the divine he sought the divinity’s of freedom, magic, magical creatures, and dragons. And yes, I know that these portfolios are in the hands of other gods, but this dragon is not a NORMAL god, or rather, a normal god level being. I know this is uncharted territory but still. As for the psionics, that is simply pure power attuned to his mental landscape.

Now I know this does not fully explain the power, but this will. To do this he created a ritual that spawned the cosmic wheel, the astral and elemental chaos, all centering in this dragon. The RAW power, leading to his rank, power from endless realms of PURE MAGICAL POWER. Imagine that, all that power, funneling into a single being, what could that lead to if not an intermediate god.

I am writing a dnd story, but I want to check to see if this dragon, my central characters paths had merit within the greater dnd lore
 

Queshire

Istar
What greater D&D lore? Is it not what you make it?

Oh sure. I mean, you're always free to make your own setting, but there's quite a bit of it over the years (though it changes depending on the edition in question though there may or may not be in universe events to explain said changes.)

Personally I prefer the lore from D&D's competitor Pathfinder. I find it benefits from focusing on a single setting rather than D&D's multiple settings and various changes over the years.
 

Queshire

Istar
To answer the actual question posed, I don't think it does fit. Suitable as a goal in the future, sure, but I don't think it's actually achievable. (That's even presuming that such a hybrid dragon is possible in the first place, which I'm not sure is the case.)
 

Io - lord of All

New Member
To answer the actual question posed, I don't think it does fit. Suitable as a goal in the future, sure, but I don't think it's actually achievable. (That's even presuming that such a hybrid dragon is possible in the first place, which I'm not sure is the case.)
Yes, but - there is mystery behind Io, no one can agree whether he was a God or a primordial, perhaps he was BOTH, what then ?
 

pmmg

Myth Weaver
As an old time D&D player, I will admit that it is only with a touch of sadness that I follow what it has become. A game that was meant to be about imagination has become weighted down with layers of new material and has become unrecognizable to me.

The lore is supposed to be whatever you want to make it. The material is supposed to be suggestive. But… i agree, from what i know of the lore. How could such a dragon exist, and Tiamat and Bahamut not know about it? The lore would have to contain it.

My advise, forget the lore. Change it as needed and make it what you want.
 
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Queshire

Istar
As an old time D&D player, I will admit that it is only with a touch of sadness that I follow what it has become. A game that was meant to be about imagination has become weighted down with layers of new material and has become unrecognizable to me.

The lore is supposed to be whatever you want to make it. The material is supposed to be suggestive. But… i agree, from what i know of the lore. How could such a dragon exist, and Tiamat and Bahamut not know about it? The lore would have to contain it.

My advise, forget the lore. Change it as needed and make it what you want.

Ehhhh... I don't know. If you compare, like, 2e with 5e/2024 then I don't think the problem is a matter of excess material.
 

Io - lord of All

New Member
As an old time D&D player, I will admit that it is only with a touch of sadness that I follow what it has become. A game that was meant to be about imagination has become weighted down with layers of new material and has become unrecognizable to me.

The lore is supposed to be whatever you want to make it. The material is supposed to be suggestive. But… i agree, from what i know of the lore. How could such a dragon exist, and Tiamat and Bahamut not know about it? The lore would have to contain it.

My advise, forget the lore. Change it as needed and make it what you want.
I never said that they did not know about him, I would think they would know, but he would always be in their peripheral, always out of focus.
 
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