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Old 03-23-2011, 06:55 PM   #27
Genesis
 
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Default Re: Magic items made from Great Red Dragon's corpse

You might be able to refine dragon's blood (or some other fluid) into an imperishable lamp oil. Perhaps if you concentrate the natural mana appropriately the resulting oil (ichor/suspension/fluid) will sustain flame without being consumed.

If dragons are creatures of supernatural majesty perhaps some fragment of that remains - imagine the potency of a throne carved from the petrified heart of a giant dragon. A mantle made from the heartstrings. A scepter made of a tine from the dragon's cranial frill, topped with the obsidian remains of the beast's last meal.

A dragon that size will make a lot of steaks - perhaps dragon jerky gives PCs Temperature Tolerance by warming them in blizzards?

Does the dragon's flesh or humours have a supernatural association with flame, rather than merely a suffusion of fire magic? When properly 'cleansed,' a poultice of dragon marrow might draw out fever by sucking all the Fire from a sick human.

On the other hand, perhaps preparations made from the Dragon's spleen are replete with hot-burning rage - potent materials for Berzerker potions and the like.

Dragon's liver powder could be a potent antiseptic - burning an infected wound of contaminants.

Dragon's Bile is a potent poison - causing intense fever, replete with delirium and hallucinations of fire and death, before cooking the victim's brain in his skull. Maybe in small doses (or prepared differently) the hallucinations are useful - allowing you to see fire magic. Or intuitively understand the weaving of the crimson threads in the tapestry of fate - foreseeing destruction or conflagration, but nothing else (different dragon for that, honey).

Preparations of kidney can purify large volumes of water, which will remain scalding hot for far longer than it should. And it'll taste funny.

The adrenal glands (and other parts of the endocrine system, assuming dragons have such things) might be subtler poisons - limited sorts of chemical mind control, driving people into rage, or fostering hate or superiority or contempt - potentially useful, given inventive PCs.

Preparations of the gonads will (of course) give potent... potence.

You said above that dragon's eat rocks and digest them in the fiery furnace of
their stomach. Do they have intestines? You could make some great sausage casings that will never split open on the grill! Actually, given the size of the beast, those casings are probably made from the walls of the smaller blood vessels.

The intestines or stomach could make a fabulous bag for a hot-air balloon or zeppelin, though! Perhaps it'd have enough heat left in it to float without fuel!

A talon (or the tip of a pointed tail) could make a pretty nifty enchanted plow, that cleaves effortlessly through field stones.

A rib would make a great keel for a ship - if it's a timere or bireme imagine what damage that ram would do an enemy vessel! The keel might have such an elemental repulsion from the sea that the top speed of such a vessel would substantially exceed that of similar ships.

I'm sure I can think of another couple dozen... bigger/more expensive vs. smaller/more individual? A dragon of that size has got to be a pretty rare kill, and I'd imagine that most of the loot is claimed by the big movers and shakers of the world, organizations or nations, rather than people.

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