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My Level 14 party is finishing up a quest for an evil Ancient Shadow Dragon - Fade - where they rescued and returned her eggs, the last one having hatched in transit. They named her Yamakage ~ “Shadow of the Mountain”

My idea is for Fade to reward them with plenty of lore and information as well as a choice:

- they could keep her now humanoid tainted shadow wyrmling (Yamakage), but it would be hunted by her other spawn as training to make them strong.

OR

- they could each receive a shadow talon boon from her that would give each person a 1/day Pass without a Trace, Summon Shadowspawn or Misty Step or something comparable. HOWEVER, to activate the spell they would need a shadow dragon talon to stab their shadow with. (If they pick this: The talons would then be ripped from Yamakage who would then be fed to her siblings)

TLDR: what boons would a shadow dragon mother give the party who returned her stolen child?

EDIT: Fade is evil aligned and hired the group only because even though she is sworn to Takhisis, she doesn’t want her eggs changed to draconians

EDIT 2: probably leaned in too hard on the evil aspect lol. I’m now considering the boon to be “Shadow Travel” which will essentially be Teleportation (2/day). They take a shadow dragon talon and scratch into the shadows of those traveling and they will be teleported to the destination. Yamakage is fine 😅😂

My Level 14 party is finishing up a quest for an Ancient Shadow Dragon where they rescued and returned her eggs, the last one having hatched in transit. They named her Yamakage ~ “Shadow of the Mountain”

My idea is for the ancient dragon mother to reward them with plenty of lore and information as well as a choice:

- they could keep her now humanoid tainted shadow wyrmling (Yamakage), but it would be hunted by her other spawn as training to make them strong.

OR

- they could each receive a shadow talon boon from her that would give each person a 1/day Pass without a Trace, Summon Shadowspawn or Misty Step or something comparable. HOWEVER, to activate the spell they would need a shadow dragon talon to stab their shadow with. (If they choose this the talons would then be ripped from Yamakage who would then be fed to her siblings)

TLDR: what boons would a shadow dragon mother give the party who returned her stolen child?

EDIT: this is the dragon of Lord Soth from Dragonlance - Fade. She is evil aligned and hired the group only because even though she is sworn to Takhisis, she doesn’t want her eggs changed to draconians.