Do u know of any realms lore with multi racial dragons say if a green and black dragon mated and their offspring was a mixture of both colors?
— da man (@Agamemnon5174) October 9, 2019
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When dragons of different types mate, most of the time they have no offspring.
When they do, their children almost always ‘favor’ one parent’s “type” over the other (that is, your green and black mating would have a green child or a black child; they might have… 2)
…some characteristics varying from the norm, but to another's eye would seem either a green or a black dragon. In VERY rare instances, the offspring will favor neither parent, and may be a new dragon type, albino, or even a 'twisted' non-dragon. (Up to the DM.)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2019
So… I suppose this is cannon now? I mean… he IS the man. It was canon back in TSR days (when the Draconomicon was published), because this was discussed in-house, and all of what I posted here agreed-upon.
And of course it's now canon for the Realms until contradicted/superseded by something "official."— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2019
So then gem dragons are not the metallic/chromatic cross-breeds?
— Thunderbrd (@thunderbrd1) October 9, 2019
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They could be metallic/chromatic crossbreeds (=”In VERY rare instances, the offspring will favor neither parent, and may be a new dragon type”), that ‘bred true’ as a stable new sort of dragon, long, long ago (meaning that from the POV of humans alive now in the..2)
…Realms, the genesis of various sorts of gem dragons happened so long ago that such dragons 'have always existed').#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2019
Oh for an Odds & Ends request, could you provide a name for "twisted" type?
— Tevapotrans (@Lord_Toast13) October 9, 2019
Sure. The Scalyfang Marauder that terrorized Saelmur and Ankhapur in the mid-1300s DR, raiding out of the Thornwood, was almost certainly the lone, ‘mule’ (sterile) offspring of a brown dragon mating with a green dragon.#Realmslore https://t.co/Zdr8ZN5IN7
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2019