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because of this video... what about a Gargoyle? i can already though imagine an alternative rule that at something like lvl 20 would allow Iymrith to transfer her essence into you for a single attack of Force Burn of course though from the start you would be needing to follow Iymrith's orders
Small correction, Iymrith HAS mated before, she has two adult children called Anaxaster and Chezzaran who she gets on with quite well considering how most chromatic dragon parents feel about their children.
ya from my understanding blues and greens are the most stable families which fits given their standard alignment is lawful evil so they innately stable enough in their goals and personalities to more easily make and maintain long term relationships then some other dragons
I thought I was misremembering that. I was like, "I thought there was casual 10th and 11th spells" Also, you've already given us a way to destroy her...N'Quor'Khaor. 😁
Hey man, at least you had me laugh out loud when you said "impregnate the city" instead of (I assume) *infiltrate* the city! The city may be nigh impregnable, but if that's your kink I understand why the gargoyles attack you on sight. 🤣
Iymrith's last kobold: *stands outside Iymrith's lab* "Mistress? Snar want to talk to great mistress. Snar understand statue thingies are important to mistress but it been long time since mistress has been outside. It make Snar a bit conce-" *opens door to labs.* Iymrith and a million and one gargoyles: *Stop working on articial body for Iymrith and slowly turn their heads in unison to look at Snar.* Snar: *slowly closes door*
In the start of 2016 to Nov of 2018. I had once played in a large campaign with this dragon. We were a party of nine adventurers, who heard the please of the people who wanted her gone and peace restored to the nomad people of the area. After nearly two years of playing. We had defeated many Gargoyles and several avatars of her likeness. However, though we win in the end, there were only three of us who would live to see the end. We had no happy songs to sing, no shouts nor cries of victory. Only silence filled her lair and we buried fallen comrades. It was a great RP experience but the feeling of the end left all at the table with no dry eyes. As our druid friend Gundar said, "May the world not waste us". I haven't seen any of those people I played with in that campaign since it ended. I hope you guys are well. It was a hell of an adventure, though.
I notice a lot of the most powerful beings in the Forgotten Realms are dragons that can use magic. I suppose that because the primary detriment of mages is the lack of physical capability (they are too busy studying), a creature whose natural physical capabilities are greater than that of most humanoids, when capable of using magic, can be absolutely devastating.
Well, its more a thing of living so long. If you are a super powerful spell caster your physical capabilities of strength and such are not really important anymore, a slight edge for sure, but if you can just annihilate anything with spells, melee combat basically doesnt matter. If dragons would just get 100 years old and die, well, they would never be that relevant.
and the link to magic itself too, human mage need components like material from magic creatures and many other difficulty to cast a spell, while dragon or monster with magic abilities just use it with no limits (3 time per day and many more). And when a dragon is also a mage not only they have there base magic ability, they have caster one too and the OP is that spell what may need material components to normal mage ( which need to prepare before battle ) can be cast with nothing for a dragon.
Dragons are also innately magical beings, which can be combined with wizardry to produce spells that are spesific to dragons, giving them their own branch of wizardry that is unique to them. Spells that alters their breath weapons are quite common.
Many Dragons don't have the patience to learn magic, instead prefering to rely on their might alone or their natural abilities. It often proves to be their downfall.
@@PeterDivine Toril has 1 too many pantheons already thanks to the Imaskari screwing around and accidentally kidnapping the egyptian gods. We could stand to loose a few.
She almost sounds like she's on the verge of losing her evil alignment. Like she's always going to be kind of bad, but she seems to be at the point where just studying and learning more magic is all she cares about. I could see her allowing adventures and merchants who give her new bits of knowledge to pass through her territory. Almost like the Wa Shi Tong of DND. And if any type of chromatic dragon were to at the very least be tolerant of other sentient species, it would be Blue Dragons. I now want to use her as a quest giver who is originally anonymous.
I don't really see Blue Dragons as evil, they don't have the vindictive malignance to be anything more than occasionally domineering jerks with a violent streak. Being consistently evil is too much work and so much less rewarding than raking in fame and profits from cultivated networks of stooges, agents, and heralds. Blue Dragons are truthfully a dark shade of Lawful Neutral.
Imryth is an essential Dragon to all my stories on DND as a DM. On a story I work now, in my fantasy world, Daurgothoth and Imryth are under protection of Mystra herself because both of them are working on magic. And adventurers (before my players) and legends tell that "The creeping doom AND the doom of the desert are working together for a certain destructive spell"
Iymrith and Daurgothoth would be the ultimate power couple. Honestly if the two were to meet on good terms they would probably be able to make both of their biggest plans become reality.
I DMed SKT. This is a few years late for me, but still a nice and interesting video. Anyway... isn't the presence of SKT here in the comments a bit of a big SPOILER?!
@@HoferEric everything is a spoiler, even this video. Don't expect others to curate the internet for you if you care about spoilers. You can always not look in the comments, especially if you know people engage in conversations about everything.
Wish I knew about this back when I ran STK. Honestly though hearing about her here makes me realise how dirty the adventure did her. If I were running SKT now I'd be giving her some major buffs (especially with all the help the PC's get during the finale).
Just as the thought of "Mr Rhexx hasn't released video in a while." enters my head. You deliver in the very minute. Mighty impressive! Love your content, looking forward to this vid!
The idea of a Wraith Dragon sounds pretty challenging no matter the party or group of parties. Hell even for most deities to manage. That said now I want to see a sub group of undead based on intelligent other creatures. Ghost Dragons, unicorns & other lesser than lich sub types seems an unexplored territory.
ah I would recomend checking 3.5 creature templates realmshelp has a good list even tho not complete an posible to add them to pcs also unicorn liches would be weird ı think they sorta already ımmortal
I used your amazing lore documentary to add this to my game. I said the Lich was Vecna, but using her magic to hide her real form she survived his training but never got away from his mastery. Still learning from him and under his control she caused the Ordering to shatter and tricked the remaining Giants to recover The Black obelisks "from storms King thunder and other adventures" that are essentially keys to bringing Vecna back to this plane.
What the DM for my group did was pretty cool. He tied STK and the Tyranny of Dragons into the same storyline. We started STK first with the idea that Imyrith was involved to create chaos for the giants so that they would be too busy fighting each other and not fighting the dragons. My paladin ended up dealing the final blow to Imyrtih, a crit-boosted level 3 divine smite which decapitated her. When we began Hoard of the dragon queen we all played new characters with the idea that in Rise of Tiamat we would choose which of the two characters to continue as. I chose my paladin and the storm giants have since given me the title "Imyrith's Bane".
Iymrith in the past: Can project her consciousness into suitable vessles, is a near max level spellcaster, created several modified amd original spells, and had her intellect enhanced far beyond normal ranges for blue dragons. Iymrith in 5e: 5 daily spells, take it or leave it. I see a lot of things left behind in older editions as tidying up the lore so it's more consistent and not overburdened, but this just makes me sad.
What a lot of players don't know about dragons: They are not suppose to be easy to kill. What a lot of DMs don't know about dragons: They are not suppose to be easy to kill.
I have an Elven Wizard who is fascinated with the Netheril Empire and above all else wishes to be able to cast Proctiv's Move Mountain to create his own floating citadel and legitimately become the first Archmage since the Empire's collapse. Obviously, there's more then a few obstacles in the way but in pursuit of the spell itself or how to build a Mythallar, he quite possibly could go looking for this knowledge in the ruins of Anauroch or even parlay with Iymrith directly. Perhaps a quest in exchange for this knowledge? A favor? A trade?
I'm thrilled that you're doing videos on the individual dragon characters from D&D lore. I loved your videos on the different dragon species, and I've found the various dragon characters in D&D to be fascinating. I look forward to seeing what other legendary dragons will be covered in future videos.
Man this reminds how deep I went into forgotten realms lore for SKT. Lyrmirith getting a few power boosts and using flame sands and force burn. Man did the warlock and sorcerer NOT like losing a spell slot.
I bought the magic item book two weeks ago and let me just say it's absolutely worth it. If you're ok the fence about it, get it. I run a high magic setting and honestly I had no idea how to incorporate getting magic items. At least not as easily as I wanted to be. Thank God for Mr. Rhexx
I used to have a book that I absolutely loved to read, despite not knowing where it came from. It was a book about roughly a dozen dragons, all with different colors. I didn't know it was about these dragons, I am so happy to have found this. (the book contained info on dragon breath weapons, egg incubations, habitat, and general dragon information like how their sense of touch is poor due to their heavily armored scales.)
What I want is access to that map with marked territories of named dragons you were showing in the first few minutes. I do like to keep and use in world lore information at times for my players, which is usually just name dropping specific groups or people in charge at cities, sometimes local history events, so having that dragon territory map would be good reference info now and then. Currently the campaign I've been running the party has had several adventures in the area along the Delimbyir River, Misty Forest, just the whole area between Daggerford and SouthWood. I never run the official adventure modules in my games, but I still generally run things in the Sword Coast section of the world.
I swear you must have made this video just for me. A few months back I ran a onshot in my DMs homebrew world and had used Iymrith as the antagonist with her surviving the encounter. My DM asked for my notes on her literally an hour after you posted this
Awesome! I'm in the middle of running Rise of Tiamat and wanting to introduce an ancient dragon or two later in the campaign, probably a blue or a red...
Recently I played in a campaign where my character was a very very far descendent of that really powerful civilization and it was really fun it adds so much to the game I recommend that other people should try to do the same it makes the game so much more fun
I really like the idea for videos about the famous dragons of the realms. I hope you include dragons such as Arauthator, Voaraghamanthar and Waervaerendor, Themberchaud, etc.
I'm a lore freak for every universe i delve into, with BG3's release and the immense amount of fun i have in this game i've decided to shoot for the loremaster level of knowledge for this universe (took me 10 years for warhammer fantasy to read almost everything there is out there, i'm still working on my 40k lore and i believe D&D will take me a decade or so as well) and your channel helps a lot, i'm just terrified about when i'll encounter a dragon in the game.
Damn rex, u know alot about D&D, i think when i first started watching your content i underestimated your level of lore mastery. Truly impressive work.
This has given me a crazy idea for a campaign set in my home setting. An eldritch evil that sought to drink the power from a sphere. So the gods worked together to banish that sphere from space and time. Leaving a spark of their powers so that life might have a chance to flourish and banish the evil. But the seal between this sphere, the evil, and the rest of the multiverse is breaking. So the adventures are granted one tenth level spell. Search the multiverse for a mortal that could feasibly destroy the evil. But doing so will break the seal completely. The only mortal capable is Iymrith. So I’m exchange for her service, the adventurers offer her a piece of the god spark. And she now gains access to up to 12th level spells, but the PC’s get 10th level. Commence the final battle.
Fascinating character this one. Your video on Karsus' Avatar ages ago sparked a fascination in me about Netheril and all the juicy hooks it could invoke. Iymrith is a spectacular way to involve players in that.
Amazing video! I also purchased the "What they don't tell you about magic items" pdf, awesome work! When my players get basck to Waterdeep, their favorite wizard shop is going to have some cool new offers!
I have watched all your videos. Absolutely a blast of a inspiration in my brain! Your videos about the big lore in the world like the elf and their level 10-11 spells and the human empire you talked about here again.. those are the kind of videos that make my brain spin in my homebrew world
Glad Maldraedior was one of the ones you listed off lol. I have a special place in my Heart for Maldraedior as he was deeply involved in my First ever Adventure/Campaign when i was younger, He is first mentioned in the 2nd edition draconomicon chapter "The Millenium Dragon". He is the oldest blue dragon and one of the oldest, if not THE oldest of all Official non-Dracolich dragons period. at least as of 2nd ed. "Maldraedior is incredibly old. His rheumy, sunken eyes have seen over 4,000 summers of desert heat". The way my DM RP'd him and read the descriptions of him i still remember even today.
I love the idea for this "known dragons" series. I am DMing ToD and these videos would be really useful with the changes to the campaign that I make. Can't wait for a video about Arauthator.
Iymrith lies dead, my group defeated her after 3 years of Storm King Thunder. I adapted her to make the fight more challenging. Max life, 1-9 spellcasting with unlimited 1-3 level spells (including blur, mirror images, counter spell, blink, fireball) and able to use her 1-3 level spells as legendary actions (making her able to defend herself very eficiently and put a lot of pressure damage wise with fireball) and finaly her custom spell Force-burn (5-6 recharge 3 rays 20d6 each ray, burn all lowest level spells the character have). The fight was for 7 level 16 characters and she had her gargoyles and some gargantuan statues as well. Really epic fight that challenged my players Hekaton helped the fight and took her out of the skys at some point and she used her digging movement to go into her lair. Awesome ending for a big camping and really challenging fight and I made Imyrith really worthy of her name and was able to bring all that magic she is supoused to have. Hope this help anyone who want to give her a little boost
I love me some dragons. And that magic item compendium will definitely help me in my campaign. Going to snap that up. Keep up the great work on these lore videos!
Ah, Iyrmrith...BBEG for the _Storm King's Thunder_ published campaign and possibly the only ancient dragon PCs will ever get a chance to best. Unfortunately, the campaign writes her as your average ancient blue dragon. Any DMs who still want to run the campaign would do well to spice up the encounter with the details MrRhexx provides in this video. That said, besting her without the help of friendly storm giants and some special potions that double the character's maximum health, raise their Strength to 25 and increase them (and their equipment) to Huge size for 24 hours would require nothing short of a miracle.
Awesome timing mate! Was just looking through Fizban's and saw the name Iymirth in a picture caption. Lo and behold I pop onto TH-cam moments later and see this video! Awesome video as always mate.
Would love to have a PDF of stat blocks (probably CR 30 and above) of all these dragons at their actual power levels. Ulraunts Guides to the Planes take CR up to 45, so I think 30 to 45 would be a great range for these legendary ancient dragons (except for Daurgothoth at CR50).
Why would someone want to destroy Ymrith? She isn't interested in invading other territories, she only lives in her desert, sometimes kills faerims, and does archeological and magical research. She uses her vast magical strength only to protect herself, not to conquer anything.
I would really like to hear you do some videos on various locations across Faerun and their histories. Stuff like battles and major events that have taken place there, possible enemies (named baddies for example) that are known to be in the areas and information on the flora, fauna and weather.
I've always had a small head Canon that the pharriem originated as the gnomes of Athas that caused the world to become a desert. Or at the very least practiced the same form of magic.
I want to take a moment to compliment to little ad you sprinkled in (magic items). That's really a topic for it's own video. great value, good useful knowledge + well made ad. :D
As always, another great vid full of lore and information. Would you consider making a Graast video? You've done Demigorgon and Orcus but left out the final of the 3. There's so much more to him than being a sexaholic looker.
6:41 my campaign, which started as the dragon of icespire peak, now has the bbeg’s severed head as an entrance to my bar. His tongue makes a good doormat.
Question. Iymrith found a library about how to create automatons (something like MARUT?) because of this automatons is like MARUT that would be very very interesting
my guess, mage hand or she made constructs specifically to hold open the books for her and flip the pages. I assume the dragons have eagle like or better sight so really its just her trying to hold the books / flip through that would be the problem
Super glad you made this vid, because Iymrith is central in Storm King's Thunder. Kindly requesting you do Klauth next since he's also there, and I need it for my campaign, PLEASE
can agree BUY THE BOOK ITS GOOD. ANother book is the one about dragon hoards!!, would be nice to see stuff on gem dragons added but still worth the purchase
*Spoilers for SKT!* I've been running SKT and struggled making Iymrith a more terrifying villain. This video is a lifesaver! I can already imagine the Ultron-type of encounter I could plan with Gargoyles that attack the party.
something the recounting of the folly made me think of, are spell slots just permissions per day to tamper with the weave? like youre only allowed so many and once gone they have a steep recharge. and what sets the level of a spell? the amount of magic or the amount of tampering? is plucking a string a level 1 and ripping a hole a level 10?
17:55 "Tirelessly transport rocks from nearby mountains to create a dune or wall..." So the opening edge of this wall of rocks would be... Boulders Gate?
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Could you do Icingdeath and Themberchaud next?
Are these classes dnd beyond compatible
because of this video... what about a Gargoyle?
i can already though imagine an alternative rule that at something like lvl 20 would allow Iymrith to transfer her essence into you for a single attack of Force Burn of course though from the start you would be needing to follow Iymrith's orders
My wizard on a innistrad campain is a tree because of artifact item
Even though he is a skeleton inside
In one of your videos you said you may do some reworks to the first 2 books, I bought them already, how would i get them?
Small correction, Iymrith HAS mated before, she has two adult children called Anaxaster and Chezzaran who she gets on with quite well considering how most chromatic dragon parents feel about their children.
That's just how blue dragons are, they actually care about their family.
As far as I'm aware, blue Dragons are the most social of all chromatics. They have really strong family bonds, social structures and all.
@@mardshima2070 Family, like in Sicily, a little Thing of Ours, ya dig?
ya from my understanding blues and greens are the most stable families which fits given their standard alignment is lawful evil so they innately stable enough in their goals and personalities to more easily make and maintain long term relationships then some other dragons
Maybe those kids were only old enough to mention in the adventure in 5e?
OH NO! I misspoke. Karsus's Avatar was a 12th level spell. My bad >_
I thought I was misremembering that. I was like, "I thought there was casual 10th and 11th spells" Also, you've already given us a way to destroy her...N'Quor'Khaor. 😁
KarSUS
Too late, now incurr the wrath of the commentors!
Hey man, at least you had me laugh out loud when you said "impregnate the city" instead of (I assume) *infiltrate* the city! The city may be nigh impregnable, but if that's your kink I understand why the gargoyles attack you on sight. 🤣
@@probablythedm1669 Typical Bardic behavior
Iymrith's last kobold: *stands outside Iymrith's lab* "Mistress? Snar want to talk to great mistress. Snar understand statue thingies are important to mistress but it been long time since mistress has been outside. It make Snar a bit conce-" *opens door to labs.*
Iymrith and a million and one gargoyles: *Stop working on articial body for Iymrith and slowly turn their heads in unison to look at Snar.*
Snar: *slowly closes door*
Awww, poor Snar.
😳…WHAT!
That is a super cute little story 😂
In the start of 2016 to Nov of 2018. I had once played in a large campaign with this dragon. We were a party of nine adventurers, who heard the please of the people who wanted her gone and peace restored to the nomad people of the area. After nearly two years of playing. We had defeated many Gargoyles and several avatars of her likeness. However, though we win in the end, there were only three of us who would live to see the end. We had no happy songs to sing, no shouts nor cries of victory. Only silence filled her lair and we buried fallen comrades. It was a great RP experience but the feeling of the end left all at the table with no dry eyes. As our druid friend Gundar said, "May the world not waste us". I haven't seen any of those people I played with in that campaign since it ended. I hope you guys are well. It was a hell of an adventure, though.
I notice a lot of the most powerful beings in the Forgotten Realms are dragons that can use magic. I suppose that because the primary detriment of mages is the lack of physical capability (they are too busy studying), a creature whose natural physical capabilities are greater than that of most humanoids, when capable of using magic, can be absolutely devastating.
Well, its more a thing of living so long. If you are a super powerful spell caster your physical capabilities of strength and such are not really important anymore, a slight edge for sure, but if you can just annihilate anything with spells, melee combat basically doesnt matter.
If dragons would just get 100 years old and die, well, they would never be that relevant.
and the link to magic itself too, human mage need components like material from magic creatures and many other difficulty to cast a spell, while dragon or monster with magic abilities just use it with no limits (3 time per day and many more). And when a dragon is also a mage not only they have there base magic ability, they have caster one too and the OP is that spell what may need material components to normal mage ( which need to prepare before battle ) can be cast with nothing for a dragon.
Dragons are also innately magical beings, which can be combined with wizardry to produce spells that are spesific to dragons, giving them their own branch of wizardry that is unique to them. Spells that alters their breath weapons are quite common.
Many Dragons don't have the patience to learn magic, instead prefering to rely on their might alone or their natural abilities.
It often proves to be their downfall.
Also because the name of the game is Dungeons and Dragons.
And Dungeons are not creatures.
Minor correction, Karsus's Avatar was the only 12th level spell, not 13th.
But imagine for a second, an entire pantheon falling dead in an instant on a Karsus's Avatar upcast...
Lord Ao is gonna be really upset
@@PeterDivine He would be there eating popcorn while watching the other pantheons going mad ;)
@@PeterDivine Toril has 1 too many pantheons already thanks to the Imaskari screwing around and accidentally kidnapping the egyptian gods. We could stand to loose a few.
@@blackjoker2345 Loose them or lose them? :)
She almost sounds like she's on the verge of losing her evil alignment. Like she's always going to be kind of bad, but she seems to be at the point where just studying and learning more magic is all she cares about. I could see her allowing adventures and merchants who give her new bits of knowledge to pass through her territory. Almost like the Wa Shi Tong of DND.
And if any type of chromatic dragon were to at the very least be tolerant of other sentient species, it would be Blue Dragons.
I now want to use her as a quest giver who is originally anonymous.
Given how social they can be, I can imagine living under the rule of blue Dragon is not the worst option.
I don't really see Blue Dragons as evil, they don't have the vindictive malignance to be anything more than occasionally domineering jerks with a violent streak. Being consistently evil is too much work and so much less rewarding than raking in fame and profits from cultivated networks of stooges, agents, and heralds. Blue Dragons are truthfully a dark shade of Lawful Neutral.
Blue and Bronze Dragons were always closer to Lawful Neutral that Evil or Good, but have to grouped in with the alignments of their category.
I'ld say she's on the verge of becoming true netral.
@@InquisitorThomas Anchent bronze dragons are lawfull netral at *best,* no matter what they belive themselves to be.
Imryth is an essential Dragon to all my stories on DND as a DM. On a story I work now, in my fantasy world, Daurgothoth and Imryth are under protection of Mystra herself because both of them are working on magic. And adventurers (before my players) and legends tell that "The creeping doom AND the doom of the desert are working together for a certain destructive spell"
Great story hook.
@@curtisholsinger6023 thanks
Can you make the dragons bang each other in your game.
I swear these 2 weeks between videos be feeling like 2 months 😩
Two years even if you DM
That's just your pineal gland being fresh and juicy
I normally end up checking to make sure I didn't miss a new release
Mood
I've been feeling that too
Definitely want you to continue this series diving into info about all the ancient dragons
This was a blast!!
Agreed!
Same! Really hope this continues
A skeletal wizard riding a dragon? Sounds like the greatest thing to paint across a 70’s van.
Wyrms of the North was a standout high for D&D. They should be revisted like this.
This is by far one of the best lore channels on TH-cam. Thanks for the content ✌️😸🖤
I don't know if you take suggestions from us, but I'd love to see a video on Klauth, Arauthator, Nymmurh, and the Voaraghamantar twins.
Don't forget the Forest dragon of Cormanthor, that (after being slain) was discovered to be 2 green dragon mates
And Claugiliamatar (spelling?) Or old gnarl bones.
Especially Klauth
@@robertbeach71 strapping wands to his wings and casting a unique triptych spell.
@@simonboyle4459 well, there's those little wing claws to hold them.
Iymrith and Daurgothoth would be the ultimate power couple. Honestly if the two were to meet on good terms they would probably be able to make both of their biggest plans become reality.
As a DM running SKT this is exactly the video I needed. Thanks MrRhexx !
Same
I DMed SKT. This is a few years late for me, but still a nice and interesting video. Anyway... isn't the presence of SKT here in the comments a bit of a big SPOILER?!
@@HoferEric everything is a spoiler, even this video. Don't expect others to curate the internet for you if you care about spoilers. You can always not look in the comments, especially if you know people engage in conversations about everything.
I am alsorunning SKT and the party is just finding out about her. Thanks for the great lore help sir!
Wish I knew about this back when I ran STK.
Honestly though hearing about her here makes me realise how dirty the adventure did her.
If I were running SKT now I'd be giving her some major buffs (especially with all the help the PC's get during the finale).
Just as the thought of "Mr Rhexx hasn't released video in a while." enters my head. You deliver in the very minute. Mighty impressive! Love your content, looking forward to this vid!
The idea of a Wraith Dragon sounds pretty challenging no matter the party or group of parties. Hell even for most deities to manage. That said now I want to see a sub group of undead based on intelligent other creatures. Ghost Dragons, unicorns & other lesser than lich sub types seems an unexplored territory.
ah I would recomend checking 3.5 creature templates
realmshelp has a good list even tho not complete
an posible to add them to pcs
also unicorn liches would be weird ı think they sorta already ımmortal
I used your amazing lore documentary to add this to my game. I said the Lich was Vecna, but using her magic to hide her real form she survived his training but never got away from his mastery. Still learning from him and under his control she caused the Ordering to shatter and tricked the remaining Giants to recover The Black obelisks "from storms King thunder and other adventures" that are essentially keys to bringing Vecna back to this plane.
What the DM for my group did was pretty cool. He tied STK and the Tyranny of Dragons into the same storyline. We started STK first with the idea that Imyrith was involved to create chaos for the giants so that they would be too busy fighting each other and not fighting the dragons. My paladin ended up dealing the final blow to Imyrtih, a crit-boosted level 3 divine smite which decapitated her. When we began Hoard of the dragon queen we all played new characters with the idea that in Rise of Tiamat we would choose which of the two characters to continue as. I chose my paladin and the storm giants have since given me the title "Imyrith's Bane".
If this becomes a series, I will be very happy.
Iymrith in the past: Can project her consciousness into suitable vessles, is a near max level spellcaster, created several modified amd original spells, and had her intellect enhanced far beyond normal ranges for blue dragons.
Iymrith in 5e: 5 daily spells, take it or leave it.
I see a lot of things left behind in older editions as tidying up the lore so it's more consistent and not overburdened, but this just makes me sad.
Yah I want to see the original version in 5e that would be amazing, not as a boss but maybe as an npc
What a lot of players don't know about dragons: They are not suppose to be easy to kill.
What a lot of DMs don't know about dragons: They are not suppose to be easy to kill.
I have an Elven Wizard who is fascinated with the Netheril Empire and above all else wishes to be able to cast Proctiv's Move Mountain to create his own floating citadel and legitimately become the first Archmage since the Empire's collapse. Obviously, there's more then a few obstacles in the way but in pursuit of the spell itself or how to build a Mythallar, he quite possibly could go looking for this knowledge in the ruins of Anauroch or even parlay with Iymrith directly. Perhaps a quest in exchange for this knowledge? A favor? A trade?
The videos that focus on individuals, especially villains, are super underrated! I’m gonna use this dragon in my next session!
I'm thrilled that you're doing videos on the individual dragon characters from D&D lore. I loved your videos on the different dragon species, and I've found the various dragon characters in D&D to be fascinating. I look forward to seeing what other legendary dragons will be covered in future videos.
This video has been rattling around my brain for over a year. Thanks for your deep dives
Man this reminds how deep I went into forgotten realms lore for SKT. Lyrmirith getting a few power boosts and using flame sands and force burn. Man did the warlock and sorcerer NOT like losing a spell slot.
Would you cover Arveiaturce, The White Wyrm at some point? Her story is truly unique!
I bought the magic item book two weeks ago and let me just say it's absolutely worth it. If you're ok the fence about it, get it. I run a high magic setting and honestly I had no idea how to incorporate getting magic items. At least not as easily as I wanted to be. Thank God for Mr. Rhexx
This would make a brilliant quest for a spellthief, with alluring spells and extreme danger in applying their powers.
I used to have a book that I absolutely loved to read, despite not knowing where it came from. It was a book about roughly a dozen dragons, all with different colors. I didn't know it was about these dragons, I am so happy to have found this. (the book contained info on dragon breath weapons, egg incubations, habitat, and general dragon information like how their sense of touch is poor due to their heavily armored scales.)
That sounds awesome.
Oh, is it the dragonology book?? I have something like that as well with cardboard model pieces that can be assembled to show the dragon
@@astra1627 I don't remember, but I know it was about this dragon and and the other ones like her
Definitely my favorite dragon from the Dragonomicon, not only is she a powerful blue dragon but she’s also a wizard 11/10
In our DM's Faerun AU, that Scaly Chadette is responsible for the creation of the warforged and their totally-not-skynet control unit.
What I want is access to that map with marked territories of named dragons you were showing in the first few minutes. I do like to keep and use in world lore information at times for my players, which is usually just name dropping specific groups or people in charge at cities, sometimes local history events, so having that dragon territory map would be good reference info now and then. Currently the campaign I've been running the party has had several adventures in the area along the Delimbyir River, Misty Forest, just the whole area between Daggerford and SouthWood. I never run the official adventure modules in my games, but I still generally run things in the Sword Coast section of the world.
I swear you must have made this video just for me. A few months back I ran a onshot in my DMs homebrew world and had used Iymrith as the antagonist with her surviving the encounter. My DM asked for my notes on her literally an hour after you posted this
Awesome! I'm in the middle of running Rise of Tiamat and wanting to introduce an ancient dragon or two later in the campaign, probably a blue or a red...
I need to find me a copy of that book. Missed it years ago when it was reasonably priced.
@@seibervideo lots of pdf versions online
Recently I played in a campaign where my character was a very very far descendent of that really powerful civilization and it was really fun it adds so much to the game I recommend that other people should try to do the same it makes the game so much more fun
I really like the idea for videos about the famous dragons of the realms. I hope you include dragons such as Arauthator, Voaraghamanthar and Waervaerendor, Themberchaud, etc.
I'm a lore freak for every universe i delve into, with BG3's release and the immense amount of fun i have in this game i've decided to shoot for the loremaster level of knowledge for this universe (took me 10 years for warhammer fantasy to read almost everything there is out there, i'm still working on my 40k lore and i believe D&D will take me a decade or so as well) and your channel helps a lot, i'm just terrified about when i'll encounter a dragon in the game.
Damn rex, u know alot about D&D, i think when i first started watching your content i underestimated your level of lore mastery. Truly impressive work.
Wow what a cool dragon. Well done.
This has given me a crazy idea for a campaign set in my home setting. An eldritch evil that sought to drink the power from a sphere. So the gods worked together to banish that sphere from space and time. Leaving a spark of their powers so that life might have a chance to flourish and banish the evil. But the seal between this sphere, the evil, and the rest of the multiverse is breaking. So the adventures are granted one tenth level spell. Search the multiverse for a mortal that could feasibly destroy the evil. But doing so will break the seal completely. The only mortal capable is Iymrith. So I’m exchange for her service, the adventurers offer her a piece of the god spark. And she now gains access to up to 12th level spells, but the PC’s get 10th level. Commence the final battle.
For probably the first time ever I now actually want to explore a desert.
My GM is not happy this video came out as I shared it to our group, now we all know what the strange and ominous statue in the corner was all about 😂
Fascinating character this one. Your video on Karsus' Avatar ages ago sparked a fascination in me about Netheril and all the juicy hooks it could invoke. Iymrith is a spectacular way to involve players in that.
Amazing video!
I also purchased the "What they don't tell you about magic items" pdf, awesome work! When my players get basck to Waterdeep, their favorite wizard shop is going to have some cool new offers!
I have watched all your videos. Absolutely a blast of a inspiration in my brain! Your videos about the big lore in the world like the elf and their level 10-11 spells and the human empire you talked about here again.. those are the kind of videos that make my brain spin in my homebrew world
Glad Maldraedior was one of the ones you listed off lol.
I have a special place in my Heart for Maldraedior as he was deeply involved in my First ever Adventure/Campaign when i was younger, He is first mentioned in the 2nd edition draconomicon chapter "The Millenium Dragon". He is the oldest blue dragon and one of the oldest, if not THE oldest of all Official non-Dracolich dragons period. at least as of 2nd ed.
"Maldraedior is incredibly old. His rheumy, sunken eyes have seen over 4,000 summers of desert heat".
The way my DM RP'd him and read the descriptions of him i still remember even today.
I love the idea for this "known dragons" series. I am DMing ToD and these videos would be really useful with the changes to the campaign that I make. Can't wait for a video about Arauthator.
One of the best videos you have made, we want more dragons lore. MOAR
Anything with dragons from MrRhexx is an auto classic! Cheers!
Iymrith lies dead, my group defeated her after 3 years of Storm King Thunder. I adapted her to make the fight more challenging. Max life, 1-9 spellcasting with unlimited 1-3 level spells (including blur, mirror images, counter spell, blink, fireball) and able to use her 1-3 level spells as legendary actions (making her able to defend herself very eficiently and put a lot of pressure damage wise with fireball) and finaly her custom spell Force-burn (5-6 recharge 3 rays 20d6 each ray, burn all lowest level spells the character have). The fight was for 7 level 16 characters and she had her gargoyles and some gargantuan statues as well. Really epic fight that challenged my players Hekaton helped the fight and took her out of the skys at some point and she used her digging movement to go into her lair.
Awesome ending for a big camping and really challenging fight and I made Imyrith really worthy of her name and was able to bring all that magic she is supoused to have.
Hope this help anyone who want to give her a little boost
I love me some dragons. And that magic item compendium will definitely help me in my campaign. Going to snap that up. Keep up the great work on these lore videos!
I'd quite enjoy seeing a full series of all these ancient dragons. Great story telling as always.
This came at the right time. I'm about to run a combination of Tyranny of Dragons and Storm Kings Thunder soon. Thanks.
Don't know what to comment, but felt I should because I loved this vid. So yeah, keep up the great work 👍
Time to run a campaign with the end boss as Iymrith! A futile endeavor for the players to see how creative they can get.
Ah, Iyrmrith...BBEG for the _Storm King's Thunder_ published campaign and possibly the only ancient dragon PCs will ever get a chance to best. Unfortunately, the campaign writes her as your average ancient blue dragon. Any DMs who still want to run the campaign would do well to spice up the encounter with the details MrRhexx provides in this video. That said, besting her without the help of friendly storm giants and some special potions that double the character's maximum health, raise their Strength to 25 and increase them (and their equipment) to Huge size for 24 hours would require nothing short of a miracle.
Love this series. Been searching for something like this forever and you nailed it.
Awesome timing mate! Was just looking through Fizban's and saw the name Iymirth in a picture caption. Lo and behold I pop onto TH-cam moments later and see this video! Awesome video as always mate.
Would love to have a PDF of stat blocks (probably CR 30 and above) of all these dragons at their actual power levels. Ulraunts Guides to the Planes take CR up to 45, so I think 30 to 45 would be a great range for these legendary ancient dragons (except for Daurgothoth at CR50).
Why would someone want to destroy Ymrith? She isn't interested in invading other territories, she only lives in her desert, sometimes kills faerims, and does archeological and magical research. She uses her vast magical strength only to protect herself, not to conquer anything.
I would use her as a enemy as my enemy type of ally or as a location they can stumble across
Great video - hope you do more deep dives on ancient dragons :)
Came to this channel a year ago for ideas for my SKT campaign. This is exactly what I needed, thank you
I love dragons and you nail it every time ! I’m happy to see you doing specific dragons, it’s very good
Glad I saw this. I'm the one that ran Storm King's Thunder for my friends to give our Forever DM a break.
I would really like to hear you do some videos on various locations across Faerun and their histories.
Stuff like battles and major events that have taken place there, possible enemies (named baddies for example) that are known to be in the areas and information on the flora, fauna and weather.
Blue dragons have always been my favorite. Iymrith seems like a great villain for a high level campaign
Still can't get enough of your content!
I've always had a small head Canon that the pharriem originated as the gnomes of Athas that caused the world to become a desert. Or at the very least practiced the same form of magic.
IYMRITH: I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. (My building a crap ton of sentries!)
I’m sure Mythra is actively trying to kill this dragon out of fear that she will eventually find a way to recreate old magics
Your work has reignited my love of all things D&D. Be well brother.
I want to take a moment to compliment to little ad you sprinkled in (magic items). That's really a topic for it's own video. great value, good useful knowledge + well made ad. :D
As always, another great vid full of lore and information. Would you consider making a Graast video? You've done Demigorgon and Orcus but left out the final of the 3. There's so much more to him than being a sexaholic looker.
Bought the magic item pdf. One week of using it, and it's great. Totally worth it. Thanks!
6:41 my campaign, which started as the dragon of icespire peak, now has the bbeg’s severed head as an entrance to my bar. His tongue makes a good doormat.
Absolutely stoked for this series, Iymrith is stupidly scary.
More like this please. As in, more on legendary figures through out the Forgotten Realms. Please and thank you!
"We know a lot about Faerun." yeah, if we're talking about the sword coast... and almost only the sword coast.. maybe a bit on Icewind dale.
Imagine a warlock pact to Iymrith? The possibilities are endless
Question. Iymrith found a library about how to create automatons (something like MARUT?) because of this automatons is like MARUT that would be very very interesting
A very fun and dangerous Dragon that's different then most. Would not want to piss this dragon off.
I love D&D dragons they’re amazing
I loooooove this series !
Thanks for the great content and work ! Much appreciation
I wonder how an ancient dragon enters a library and reads these relatively tiny books
my guess, mage hand or she made constructs specifically to hold open the books for her and flip the pages. I assume the dragons have eagle like or better sight so really its just her trying to hold the books / flip through that would be the problem
and now you can have the mental image of constructs reading a dragon bedtime stories
Many of them can shapeshift into a humanoid
They're shapechangers
Super glad you made this vid, because Iymrith is central in Storm King's Thunder.
Kindly requesting you do Klauth next since he's also there, and I need it for my campaign, PLEASE
I love this type of lore about specific dragons, I really hope you do more
9:06 this story of how the game only has up to 9th level spells always sounded to me like a weird breaking of the 4th wall.
"If with dragons you screw, only death you will find." (DM Yoda)
can agree BUY THE BOOK ITS GOOD. ANother book is the one about dragon hoards!!, would be nice to see stuff on gem dragons added but still worth the purchase
*Spoilers for SKT!*
I've been running SKT and struggled making Iymrith a more terrifying villain. This video is a lifesaver! I can already imagine the Ultron-type of encounter I could plan with Gargoyles that attack the party.
something the recounting of the folly made me think of, are spell slots just permissions per day to tamper with the weave? like youre only allowed so many and once gone they have a steep recharge. and what sets the level of a spell? the amount of magic or the amount of tampering? is plucking a string a level 1 and ripping a hole a level 10?
I absolutely adore this. Can't wait for more videos delving into specific dragon. This was great.
This video will help me come up with backstory of dragons in my world so thank you.
Thanks, MrRhexx! One of my favorite dragons in D&D.
17:55 "Tirelessly transport rocks from nearby mountains to create a dune or wall..."
So the opening edge of this wall of rocks would be... Boulders Gate?
This is perfect timing im currently planning on having iymrith as the bbeg of my campaign