Dragons of Osirion


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Lore question: What, if any, metallic dragons are known to have a presence in Osirion? I have a PC who has ties to both, but the dragons color is up in the air. If none are explictly known that's great too, just wanted to stick to known facts as much as possible.


Deserts tend to be the home of brass dragons, so that's the most likely.


Blue live in deserts to. I don't think any of the other kinds would, as Primal, Planar, and Outer dragons usually don't live on Golarion at all, and it's implied imperial dragons only live in Tian Xia but I guess there could be some.

Scarab Sages

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Ooh. Okay, so back in the summer of 2015 prepping to run a grand campaign of Mummy's Mask, I systematically went through every reference to Osirion in all of Paizo's works, built a detailed map grid of the nation and everything with a spreadsheet listing cut and paste bits of what was at every location in the nation, along with adventure and book references so I could find them again. This was well after the various Osirion support books came out for Mummy's Mask, so my guess is that it's relatively complete. So, searching it for "dragon":

1. On the edge of Northern Qadira/Southern Osirion is a place called the Gembasket with a blurb in Dark Markets (page 7): "Rumors also persist that a red dragon has claimed the Gembasket as its territory; while no reliable sightings of the creature exist, badly mauled and burned corpses occasionally turn up on the steep mountain slopes"

2. In the middle of the Glazen sheets is an adult blue dragon named Susurex who lives in a glass fortress of mysterious origin. He calls himself the Crystal King (detailed in the Osirion Campaign Setting book)

3. The volcano called Asuulek's Mouth is named after the ancient red dragon that makes the volcano its home. There's quite a bit of detail about him and his activities in the Osirion Campaign Setting book.

4. In Mummy's Mask #4 there's a fun encounter with a young blue dragon who has built an elaborate stone garden (The Garden of Symmetry) in the middle of the desert. He's got some fun OCD like character to him.

5. Also in Mummy's Mask #4 there's a brief plot hook of a Desert Giant who's been searching for his army for thousands of years and if the PCs help him, he helps them when ambushed by an adult blue dragon.

That's all I've got. Osirion isn't a very dragony place and the ones that are there seem to mostly be old blues and a really old red. Probably something there for you to work with though.


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Allow me to gently point out part of the OP's post:

Wannabekurt wrote:
metallic dragons


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Duiker wrote:
*Dragon Stuff About Osirion*

Hey, thanks for compiling all that! Sad that they're all Chromatic, but oh well, I can work something out. I really appreciate you typing it all out, I'd seen most of them so its good to know I'm not totally fumbling my Perception checks.

Scarab Sages

blahpers wrote:

Allow me to gently point out part of the OP's post:

Wannabekurt wrote:
metallic dragons

I saw it. Unfortunately there are no metallic dragons detailed in Osirion, so I figured info on the ones that were might be helpful, since several of them could easily be reskinned (like the Lord of Crystal) but still benefit from the background provided in the books.

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