Gem Dragons - Forgotten Realms Lore | D&D
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- Gem Dragons, they're not metallic or chromatic!
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Gygax’ Third Law: for every dungeon there is an equal but opposite dragon. xD
ELDENSER also called "The Worm who Hides in Blades" .......well, looks like I just found a new Hexblade Patron. 😊 Thanks
New Warlock Subclass....DRAGON PATRON!
👁.👃.👁
Whoever these guys over here are: "We want more dragons!"
Copper Dragon: "Guys, I just want to stay in my cave and read books for another 200 years. I'm not ready to get married, I don't even like children considering the risk that they will turn out to be like those human children at the village I buy my books from. "
After reading through Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, I can comfortably say “Wow, WotC retconned a lot about the gem dragons! Onyx dragons have gone extinct, Sardior is dead, and that death was what created the gem dragons!? And where did the moonstone dragon come from!?”
the moon
"Often mistaken for a small red moon" holy shit has Mercer put the ruby palace in the critical role universe?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Bro considering how often the Astral is spoken of in the story recently...
So, Rauthym is MCU Tony Stark. "Aliens exist? Better build *hundreds of kill-bots.*"
Or DCU Batman: "If there is even a 1% chance of superman being our enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty! I know I'm right because some guy from the future told me in a dream! He seemed like a trustworthy, *human* guy."
Meanwhile, The Flash: "Alright, I'm off to travel back in time to save my mom and erase this entire timeline and maybe cause a black hole to consume the solar system or whatever? LOL, it'll probably be fine."
@@PrototypeSpaceMonkey or DCU Waller. "What if there are more supermans out there? We have to be ready. Get me an alligator, a sexy clown, a relatively good marksman, and a guy who *could* firebend but doesn't want to. Oh, and also Slipknot, the Man Who Can Climb Anything."
@@anthonyalexander8886...and Katana. She's got my back.
Dnd is one of my special interests because I have autism so essentialy I am a dictionary in dnd rules, races, and classes.
Awesome topic! I didn’t know gem dragons even had so much lore built in. I love the neutrality aspect as I never really understood the point of the chromatic/metallic division. That idea of a gem dragon raising a white dragon to be good is really inspiring too. Wish I thought of it when I was making my Icespire Peak videos!
Raising them to be good isn't very neutral of them. They need to steal silver dragon wyrmlings and raise them to be evil to balance the scales.
The PH on the sword. Chef's kiss
I was today years old when I learned that Gem Dragons were a thing.
Welcome to your new worldview!
@@Jorphdan have you covered the other types of dragons like the ferrous metallics ?
Cool to see some talk on these dragons since I think they are slowly coming into 5e with the Sapphire dragon has a stat block and mini now.
Not the best stat block mind you, nor the best redesign.
OMG! Thank you Jorphdan for covering this subject. I've been waiting for someone to cover the Gems FOREVER!
Maybe WotC is planning an expansion with psionic classes and subclasses, since there's already a bunch of UA about it. I'd love to see gem dragons make a return if that were to happen.
This was so cool! My gosh, there is a cornucopia of story ideas in this video! The Ruby Palace itself inspires its own story ideas
0:06 truly outrageous
Truly. Truly outrageous.
Behold my dragonborn. He is an artificer, and his name is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
First image is Jem on a dragon. Man I love this channel!
Outrageous. Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Oh, I was waiting for this. I needed more lore on the gem dragons so bad. Thank you!
After being introduced to the idea of eldenser, I simply must make a hexblade warlock.
Gem dragons are so weird. Glad you tackled this topic.
Love the steel dragon use them a few times in my game and its fun when veteran players didn't know they were working for a steel dragon. and their facer expression, when they do find out, is priceless. I can still surprise the players after all those years.
Thank you very much for this! Gave me a plethora of information ideas . Would you be able to do one on the ferrous dragons? 🤞
Jorphdan, great video! Enjoy your Wednesday!💯🙏👐
Thanks! You too!
Love your videos Jorphy!
Now I want to do. A side quest where the town reports a black dragon nearby. As the party approaches it in battle, it let's out a fire breath attack. Then I bask in the confusion that's going on.
Sooo...Ferrous Dragons next? Pretty please?
Oh yeah! and then I'll really branch out into those Non-Newtonian Fluid Dragons!
Man TSR you're getting carried away... ;P
I always thought cobalt dragons were pretty neat, with their magnetic force breath.
Ferrous Dragons were meant to be the “Lawful” side of dragon kind. There was also going to be a “Chaotic” kind of dragons but I forgot what the theme was for them.
Awesome video, inspired so many things in my own setting :)
great content dude
Primary dragon types are gemstone, precious metallics, ferrous metallics, primary chromatics, secondary chromatics (this one's up in the air but it's heavily implied tiamat had a sibling that inbodied brown, purple, yellow, and gray), and asian dragons
1:50 StealSteel “...He was mostly silent” *PH* LUL
5:40
6 syllables:
Sa-ryn-da-lagh-loth-tor
The gh is silent
Tzimisce possibly
Catastrophic Dragons would be a cool topic to make a video off of. I never see *anyone* talking about them and I think they're really cool
loved the silent shadow halo nod lol
Thank you, thank you thank you thank you for this... going to be so much fun to add to the dynamic of the Tyranny of Dragons saga my players are going through heh
Thanks for this one. I love the dragons outside of the metallic and chromatic! Do more of the esoteric dragons next, like Song and Time and Steel!
Thanks for your awesome videos!
Are there a Sun and Moon Dragon as well?!
@@danielramsey6141 There are! Spelljammer gave us Moon and Sun dragons!
Spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/moon_dragon
Spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/sun_dragon
They should have picked a name from an ancient real life religion like Bahamut and Tiamat were.
Or Bob. Bob seems good too.
@@daleicious1528 but not a dragon god name
Well, there aren't a lot of middle east God-like creatures that have dragon like traits, and eastern names, as well as most western, are already either already used, or not neutral enough to sound like a being indifferent to things. I had a ame idea for him though.
Many, many, many moons ago (like 500 or so, seriously), I came up with the name "Keämit", being alphabetically halfway between "Bahamut" and "Tiamat".
Currently thinking of running a Moonshae campaign, (not really up to the planning stage yet, but I have some ideas), and listening to those dragons, "oooh cool I have to think about adding one in that campaign I wonder who will fit", and you're like "Raulothim is a known Faerunian emerald dragon, he lived around Rauthym, which is one of the larger islands north of the Moonshae Isles"
Me: *jumps in joy* XD
Ok we need a video of you just trying to pronounce these crazy names 😂🤣😁 you do a hell of a lot better than I would lol
Love the content. Keep it up please!
Thanks, will do!
Eldenser ph reference just awesome
My favorite dragon type is the Quicksilver dragon, but they are rarely ever talked about.
I'll have to read up on them!
I'm subscribing because of all of the references.
Welcome!
The Ruby Palace is Gold, but looks red at night because of two things. 1: Torril's Atmosphere, and 2: The sun. See, in FR, the sun is not like ours. It is literally a giant ball of fire you can walk on if you have the correct protections. It is inhabited by Fire elementals and the like. So the light it casts only appears white at a certain distance away from the planet. Add to that the fact that the Ruby palace actually orbits bunch closer to Torril than the actual Lunar Bodies and you have the perfect recipe for gold, to look red from the ground.
(reloads the head cannon)
This has nothing to do with dragons, but I would be interested in a video on a seldom mentioned type of Genie and their supposed home and customs. Would you ever do a video on Kahyal and the City of Onyx?
How about a video on Lung Dragons or Planar Dragons next?
Was not expecting to see a buddyfight card used as an example
Lore bard: have you ever heard of the gem dragons?
Kobold rouge: the… the WHAT?!!
Have you considered making videos on the members of the Circle of Eight?
Gem Dragons are truly outrageous!
Truly... Truly. Outrageous
I was dming About 3 years ago 3.5 my party was mineing in the mountains and on my encounter list i had a crystal dragon as a joke or a hook to get my group in the mine they roll find a gem mine cut open the wall right into the crystal dragon lair .
Hopefully with psionic subclasses apparently being present in the new book, we'll see more official gem dragon stats in a 2021 release.
I gave Arveiaturace a Crystal dragon backstory on top of her current one. They love her.
westgate like from the cleric quintet novels? interesting you dont usually see any other characters set in the snowflake mountains
Didn't catch the halo joke the first time. WORT WORT WORT
Do you think that you could do Adamantine Dragons or Jabberwocks at some point?
I kinda hoped you'd mention Nolaloth.
Crystal dragon's best dragons! Also 2 things aren't there diamond dragon from 2e? Second have you done deep imaskar yet? Also also fantastic video Jorphdan keep it up!👍
Thank you and we need more then just sapphires.
I died when the PH came onto the screen
I had to rewatch this to find out what you were referencing. Lots of silly jokes in this one, I forgot how much fun I had making it! ;)
“More dungeons = more dragons” 👏👏👏 😂😂😂
0:07 so, why aren`t they on the 5ed Monster Manual (or anywhere else on 5ed)?
MY LORD SARDIOR HAS RETURNED. Longest running character was a 3.5. Psion cleric chosen of Sardior.
Nice!
@@Jorphdan im really hoping they make a comeback (cue the LL Cool J music) the Sapphire dragon they released as part of that gem dice set is pretty nice. Although i hope psionics gets a bit better than just copying spells.
I'm so adding some Gem dragon lore to my homebrew world. More dragons is never a bad thing right?
Would love to see your thoughts on the 5e dragon book
I was reading it last night, and I'm working on a script for next week! :)
@@Jorphdan ok cool can’t wait to see it. Also would love to see you come up with your own dragons
"That's it, that's uh what I said" lmao
Gold can have a reddish hue btw. Pure Gold is a reddish yellow. the more "white" or darker "red" it is, the less pure it is.
@jorphdan 00:25, what is that picture, the dungeon lay out, and which book is it in?
Ravenloft!
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Would it be possible to have an Obsidian Dragon with Duergar worshippers, and would so said Dragon also keep kobolds as slaves/worshippers as well
Almost a year after this video came out: Gem dragons confirmed for 5e.
Do u guys know if this dragons have a sheet for playing it as an NPC? (It can be homebrew or oficial, idc)
Ok, so in Critical role there are two moons a large one resembling our own, and a small red one... could it be Sardior's palace? so many theories
In the Goblin Slayer anime there are 2 moons, green and red. Even more theories.
The moving castle from Krull?
Hello Fizban!
I actually just made a 3.5 character with a Gem Dragon Cohort
What do you think the chances are that we will get more Eberron videos?
Good chance. I've been reading Exploring Eberron. I'm going to do a flip through and then I think a video on Xen'Drik
In the Forgotten Realms Novella "War In Tethyr" there was a one of a kind RUBY dragon as a sub plot. She was found by the hero as a human girl but turned out to be the child of a Amethyst dragon who used magic to create a new kind of dragon. Does anyone have any idea what happened to her?
I mean... Sardior was also the Ruby Dragon, so.... no idea.
I spy the advent children Fusion Blade
I wanna know how an immortal dragon would be nammed knowing that most of the time, the older the dragon, the longer his name (gods not allowed, they are out of time)
what about the new "Chardalyn Dragon"?
* Plays Steven Universe theme song but in Draconic*
Now that that is out of the way, my major question is if the Gem Dragons have been converted to 5e or are still V. 3.5?
Sapphire dragons, or at least one? Came to 5e just a bit ago. So maybe more are coming?
Please you can say anything about Council of Wyrms in a next vídeos please a gain xD
Looking at this now, and yeah it would be a great video topic!
@@Jorphdan that's could be great i'm a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons since 1989 when i buy mi first D&D 2nd edición manual and discover that's great universe thanks so much for your vídeos and hi from Spain. XD
Well, RIP Sardior, I guess lol
Could an Aberrant Soul Sorcerer be reflavored as a gem dragon sorcerer?
Why not :)
Did I miss the part where he answered the second question? Why they aren't in the 5th edition Monster Manual?
Hopefully they will be soon!
With my questions I was mostly being silly, sorry for not answering them!
@@Jorphdan No problem! I hope so too; I remember these from 2nd Ed and enjoyed your video :)
WotC did release only the Sapphire Dragons here, but not the rest.
www.dndbeyond.com/marketplace/sourcebooks/sapphire-dragon
I'm happy Wizards of the Coast brought the gem dragon back
They didn’t. There’s a Sapphire Dragon you can buy on their site somewhere. But that’s it. They didn’t bring all of them back.
Real brave talking smack on dragons names jorphden
"s(AIR)in dalaf loth tor" is how I choose to pronounce it
Where is my dude Nolalothcaragascint?
Are gem dragonborns a thing?
You can home brew them but there aren’t official stats
Strongholds & Followers from MCDM has a take on gemstone dragonborn.
Some innate psionics instead of a breath weapon.
Wouldnt a gem dragon be more easily confused with metallic dragons, I mean they seem shinier compared to the chromatics
A red moon you say? Now i have some theories on Critical Role
i dont like gem dragons but maybe we can get more dragons types that have been influenced by different planes.
maybe even a dragon who got influenced by the far realm.
What is it with dragons and personal councils. Also he’s just a rip off version of bahamut basically. They both have flying castles that use basically unthinkable magic. They both represent a valuable resource.
They probably arent in 5ed cause there are too many freaking dragons and they start to overlap. I am shocked there wasn't a Chocolate Swirl Dragon and Pumpkin Pie Dragon
Those never made it, but the Pumpkin Spice Dragon comes out every autumn in Faerun.
Well tiamat and bahamut have 5 dragons each... Guess I have to kill one of mine :/
In older versions they were created by the Neutral gods.
You had exactly 666 Likes when I added mine XD
I hate silent letters what is there point other then to add confusion and make words look pretty
In my game gem dragons stayed neutral during the dragon war and as a punishment the chromatic dragon king wiped them out in a massive cull of the 160,000 gem dragons two survived a Emerald dragon that went insane due to survivors guilt and a signal sapphire dragon egg.
Hm, Shiney.
i VERY much feel a kinship too emerald dragons ^^