King @littlefartloser 3h3 hours ago@TheEdVerse I'm trying to figure out how large a dragon can actually grow in Faerûn. How large is the largest living dragon? The Robert Wadlow of dragons if you will. Is it Klauth?
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019
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…wild beasts to dine on, in mountain-locked high valleys).
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No, Klauth is just one of the larger dragons seen in the Sword Coast region. There are wyrms far to the east (“Utter East” and in the north of Raurin) that are far larger (some of them tend and “farm” their own herds of They include a gargantuan gray great wyrm, Ralauthoarindulglaw “the Mountain,” so large its wings can’t lift it off the ground, and whose hide has been adorned down…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019
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…its foreshoulders, when on all fours.
Other “big drakes” have been reported, but when creatures get that big, and are typically seen in difficult, remote wilderland terrain, getting exact sizes is difficult.3)
…the years with fused-on sheets of rock and boulders, so that when lying at rest, it resembles a rocky ridge or mountain spur. Elminster says Ralauthoarindulglaw is about a quarter of a mile long, and about sixty feet tall at #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019
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So Ralauthoarindulglaw may in fact fall far short of being “the largest living dragon.”#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 18, 2019
My pleasure. The Realms is all about possibilities.
And note: most of these really big dragons don't go raiding humans; they farm their own food herds and keep to themselves. Pursuing hobbies…like mastering really powerful arcane magic, and devising new spells. (!)#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 19, 2019