Category:Shadow Dragon Race

Shadow dragons are evil true dragons that are either native to the Shadowfell, or transformed by years spent there.

Physically seeming insubstantial, shadow dragons have dark and translucent scales which helps them camouflage into the darkness around them. Shadow dragons are often mistaken for black dragons, but their horns point backwards. A long fringe of spines emerge from the back of a dragon's neck and its powerful tail features a swimming fin.

Like any other true dragon, shadow dragons have sharp hearing and sight, which is capable of low-light vision and darkvision.

A shadow dragon's breath weapon is a cone of shadows. Creatures caught in it lose parts of their vitality, skills and spells, possibly permanently, all while temporarily empowering themselves. They can train their breath weapon to turn those they killed with it into spectral creatures who are then permanently enslaved by the shadow dragon.