Dragon Dungeons

What do you want? Office hours aren't until the next equinox. 

The last lecture forgot something? 

Oh. That. 

Dragon As Dungeon

As we discussed last time, the dungeon dragon is a degenerate form of a True Dragon that has become bound to a dungeon spirit by way of symbiotic mutualism. However, as we discussed in Aetheric Formalism 102- the Dual Inverse Theorem applies. For every creature under the stars there exists its equal and its opposite.

 Naturally forming Dragon dungeons are somewhat rare. Certain conditions must be met:

First, a Dragon of extreme size must glut itself on wealth

Second, this Dragon must be in a hibernation cycle. Cycles lasting less than a year will not generally work, with those lasting in the centuries being most attractive. 

Finally, a dungeon spirit must merge with the Dragon. These spirits are, of course,  notoriously attracted to the abandoned and the valuable spaces of the world. In the case of Dragons, they can sometimes be attracted by the terrible dreams that emanate from its slumber, and in some cases True Dragons have made pacts with powerful spirits to protect them in their slumber by way of dungeon. 

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Aetheric Attractors on the scale of True Dragons will of course generate attention over time. In order for their slumbers to be peaceful, they harden their scaly exteriors to begin the molting process and then drift into the Ur and let their dreams shape their world around them. 

Combined with the powers of dungeon spirits, these dreams will shape the dungeon itself. The ecology of the Dragon's dungeon varies on the nature of the creature itself and is molded by the dungeon spirit to a form readily recognizable by the common pilferer as a dungeon. 

In some cases, this can be as simple as stepping through the jaws of the slumbering dragon and entering a castle adrift in the Ur with the Dragon's treasures- both tangible and intangible- locked away sometimes in comical grand treasure chests. Other cases can be as alien as any of the infinite planes of Ur. Grand watery caverns, orchestral palaces, bright and sunny islands, all can come to be in the shades of the dreaming Dragon- populating it with both figment and often tangible beasts that make their way inside at the beckon of the spirit. 

Of course, our academy is a Dragon Dungeon as well, but you should already have suspected that.