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Enter the Secret World of Faerie and Play a Dragon with Battlezoo Dragons: Fairy Dragons! With Battlezoo Dragons: Fairy Dragons, available for both 5th Edition and Pathfinder 2nd Edition, players and GMs can add five kinds of fairy dragons to their games as adversaries, allies, or even playable characters! Each dragon is lavishly illustrated with high-quality art, allowing you to experience the dragons in all their glory. Fairy dragons are fully balanced with other party members, thanks to a special ritual enabling them to grow their strength to challenge the most powerful great wyrms and archdragons without waiting for a millennium to increase their power. Battlezoo Dragons: Fairy Dragons has everything you need to become a fairy dragon character as a player or build an epic fairy dragon encounter as the GM. Five brand new fairy dragon heritages include proud and benevolent alicorn dragons, kin of unicorns, graceful and serene allure dragons, kin of nymphs, scheming and resourceful court dragons, kin of sidhe, cunning and capricious mischief dragons, kin of gremlins, and whimsical and tricksy pixie dragons, kin of sprites. GMs can find full statistics for young, adult, ancient, and great wyrm dragons, as well as wyrmlings for 5e, and players can find dozens of draconic feats, some of which are exclusive to specific dragon types, dragon archetypes for Pathfinder 2e, and a new dragon class for 5e, allowing players to double down and customize their dragon’s abilities.
A special supplement at the end includes powerful new great wyrm statistics for class chromatic dragons, perfect for groups who didn’t find the existing chromatic dragons dangerous enough to challenge their players’ highest-level characters! Finally, an expansive lore introduction describes the journey of our narrator, the draconic scholar Kallizandrex, as he explores the realm of Faerie, learning the strange rules of this mysterious world. Here’s a taste from that section so you can see for yourself. Check out the book to see what happens next! My Entry Into Faerie By Kallizandrex, Sage Aeternal Many stories of children wandering into unknown realms and reappearing decades later, oblivious to the passing of time, speak to the curiosity and innocence often required to activate one’s passage. Without the proper mindset, a finely tuned emotion, and a sense of wonder and adventure, the doorway to Faerie remains closed, even to one desperately knocking at its door. Already that blend of fact and feeling plays their role; to enter the fairy realm, one must both find an invisible path and possess the internal key to unlock it. I’m sure some would prefer it if the path were a deadly swamp, with the key hidden in the maw of a particularly upset rage dragon. So how do the young and inexperienced manage such an incredible feat? When children play, a moment occurs when they truly believe in what they imagine. Their stick is a sword, their home a fortress, and their backyard woods are wild and dangerous—and then, without warning, they actually are. These hatchlings look up from their play, and the world around them is filled with wonder because they have entered a new one entirely.
More often than not, children who have managed to return from the realm of Faerie cannot explain exactly how or when they crossed over that threshold. Few possess the ability to control the fleeting magic of the fairy realm and its portals; regardless of whether the entrance still exists in its original location or has always remained, many struggle on how to activate it once again. They linger between ancient trees, in city ruins, in twilit ponds, ever-present yet invisible to the untrained eye. When I learned of my need to enter Faerie, that dear friend I mentioned pointed me in the direction of one such child he met while still in that other realm. The child has since returned home, grown into adulthood, yet claimed to know the key to the particular passage they once stumbled through. I set out to find them at once. Out of respect, I won’t pinpoint the locale to which I first traveled. Needless to say, this quaint little town sits in the foothills of a grand mountain range, where the morning air chills the bones even in the summer season. This individual had anticipated my coming and knew I intended to move with all haste, so after a brief cup of tea, we went without hesitation to the place through which I was to pass into Faerie.
To my immense dismay, they took me to a frigid mountain lake. Given the crystal-clear water and preternatural silence that hung in the air, I knew immediately that I would have to submerge myself in this chilling pool. My new friend confirmed this suspicion. With the path clear, only the key remained for me to discover. When my present acquaintance accidentally transported themselves long ago, they explained that they had then dived into these waters—fully dressed—invigorated by the joy and freedom of youth, feeling that it mattered not the day to come. Entering in the same manner, diving in with a sense of glory and invincibility, would allow me to break free from the water and into the new realm.
Well, reader, you see now the difficulty in possessing such a key, especially if you have known the weariness of time and age. The wisdom and knowledge of books does not often make an unburdened mind, but in that moment, unburden mine I must, as I soon stood alone on the water’s edge. Allow me to be frank: I spent many hours there, staring into that still lake, fearing I would never build the courage to throw myself into its icy grasp, worried that once I did, I would emerge in this world still, only colder and more disappointed than before I had leapt in. I stared and thought, and my mind wandered. Eventually, I pulled it back to the present conundrum, and I cannot explain how I finally did it, but I felt a snap somewhere in the back of my mind. I will spare the details of how I managed to remember the joy of youth—let’s just say that my first experience reading a truly fascinating work of scholarship might have had something to do with it—just know that I did, in fact, find my way again to that state of mind. Then I jumped. Key Takeaways about Battlezoo Ancestries Dragons:
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