creatures:dragons-wyrms [Ron Helwig's Viking World for D&D]

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====== Dragons / Wyrms ======

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Ancient scaled terrors of treasure, poison, fire, wisdom, and doom; in Norse style they are often serpentine wyrms as much as winged dragons.

===== In the North =====

For a Viking-inspired campaign, dragons work best when they are rare and story-heavy. A wyrm may coil under a barrow, gnaw beneath roots, poison a valley, or sleep over cursed gold rather than patrol the sky like an ordinary predator.

===== Myth and Folklore =====

Níðhöggr gnaws below Yggdrasil, and [[creatures:fafnir|Fáfnir]] becomes a dragon through greed and cursed treasure. Norse dragons often connect wealth, death, venom, and fate.

===== Campaign Use =====

Use dragons as campaign-shaping threats, cursed hoard guardians, ancient powers below mountains, or legendary comparisons for lesser drakes.

Most dragons encountered in the current Latitude record appear to trace back to the far-northern [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:aetherstone-islands|Aetherstone Islands]], where [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:aetherstone|Aetherstone]] is mined and small dragons eat the floating stones. That origin helps explain why dragons are rarely seen in the settled fjordlands now: the surviving populations are concentrated far to the north, and the location of their islands is deliberately protected by those who know it.

===== Latitude Lore =====

  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:places:aetherstone-islands|Aetherstone Islands]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:aetherstone|Aetherstone]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:thunderstone-drake|Thunderstone Drake]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:frostvedr|Frostveðr]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:isfell-skridari|Ísfell Skríðari]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:sjorodd-eldur|Sjórödd Eldur]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:skyherdir-stormur|Skýherðir Stormur]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:frostfluff-fiskdraki|Frostfluff Fiskdraki]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:red-hot-itchywyrm|Red-Hot Itchywyrm]]
  * [[campaigns:latitude_history:lore:terrible-terror|Terrible Terror]]

===== See Also =====

  * [[:creatures|Norse Creatures]]

===== Sources =====

  * Níðhöggr: https://grokipedia.com/page/N%C3%AD%C3%B0h%C3%B6ggr
  * Fáfnir: https://grokipedia.com/page/Fafnir

===== Game Master Notes =====

DM-only encounter details, stat blocks, and running notes are kept at [[dm:creatures:dragons-wyrms|Dragons / Wyrms (DM)]].