Vizier Archdragon
CREATURE 23There's a feeling every teacher knows. It's when one has taken a young mind and educated, trained, and molded them to one's specifications before setting them loose and watching the pupil act on one's teachings. It's a feeling of creation, control, and wonder, the knowledge that one has created this great and glorious thing—and if one has done the job exceptionally well, then the student will outshine the master. This is immortality and power, and this is what vizier dragons chase.
Vizier dragons are primarily concerned with the education and cultivation of people. People fascinate vizier dragons in all their riotous, contradictory complexity. Why do some people excel, and others falter and fail? Why does one person become a saint and the next a tyrant? Why do some become legends in their own time, while others labor in ignominy?
When a dragon speaks, the universe listens. The dragon is immune to Silence and abilities that would prevent them from speaking if the source's level is lower than the dragon's or its rank is lower than half the dragon's level rounded up.
90 feet. DC 44 Will
A creature that first enters the area must attempt a Will save.
Regardless of the result of the saving throw, the creature is temporarily immune to this monster's Frightful Presence for 1 minute.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected by the presence.
Success The creature is Frightened 1.
Failure The creature is Frightened 2.
Critical Failure The creature is Frightened 4.
The dragon makes two claw Strikes and one horns Strike in any order.
The dragon recharges Powerful Utterance whenever they score a critical hit with a Strike.
The dragon expresses their power in one of two ways. The dragon can't use Powerful Utterance again for 1d4 rounds.
- Ardent Proclamation (occult, fire) The dragon breathes a blast of flame in a 60-foot cone that deals 24d6 fire damage (DC 46 basic Reflex save).
Chastising Word (mental, occult) The dragon chides the targets strictly enough to leave the mind reeling. Each creature within a 60-foot cone must succeed at a DC 46 Will save or become Stupefied 4 for 1 minute (or Stupefied 6 on a critical failure).
Effect: Word of Caution
Effect: Word of Heroism
An archdragon is a wellspring of power, a well from which one might drink deep. An ally within 60 feet of the dragon gains regeneration 25 for 1 round, and the dragon can Sustain this effect once per round as a free action.
Effect: Word of Vigor