Crystaffos
C
rystaffos is an ancient and mythical blue
greatwyrm who rose to unimaginable power and
turned into a dracolich with the help of cults
dedicated to dragons and undeath. Crystaffos
made one of the greatest empires of history and
had quite likely the biggest hoard of all dragons,
but even then sought even more power. He is a
legendary dragon who earnt true immortality from the gods
and demon lords, and became as strong as any Deity. Even
compared to other blue greatwyrms, Crystaffos is massive,
comparable to the size of a red greatwyrm at 120ft long.
Physical Superiority. Crystaffos possesses a unique body
and multiple limbs exclusive to him, already putting him at a
higher position than his other peers. Beside his massive size,
Crystaffos possesses four wings instead of two, with the
lower two's membranes being blue while the higher two's are
purple. Crystaffos also has two tails instead of one, each
thicker than a whole man and hitting with the power of a
hurricane. His frontal horn is much thicker and larger than a
normal blue dragon's one, showing his power.
After becoming a dracolich, Crystaffos' head and arms
started to wither away, leaving only the still resilient bones of
the beast. A large, gaping hole formed on his stomach,
revealing empty insides.
Cruel Terror. Crystaffos was a remarkably evil, sadistic,
arrogant, wealthy and greedy blue dragon, even by draconic
standards. It was said that before even ascending into
undeath, his hoard was vast enough to cover two times the
size of Waterdeep. After becoming an eternal dracolich, his
hoard expanded and grew so much the term “mountains of
gold” wasn’t an exaggeration anymore, with litteral billions of
gold, silver, jewels, art objects and magic items covering the
landscape. Yet, even with that much wealth, Crystaffos was
still able to detect any who would try to steal from him from
any distance. His main goal from now on was to return
dragonkind to power.
The Dragolia Empire. Using his magnificent powers and
wealth, Crystaffos built a powerful empire: that of Dragolia.
This nation was ruled by its draconic residents, with
humanoid races and other creatures being no more than
slaves and food to the terrifying, winged reptiles. There, even
the weakest of white dragons had more rights and privileges
than the mightiest of human kings, the most manipulative of
devils and the most noble of celestials. Crystaffos wasn’t
helped by anyone in his task of governing the empire, needing
no other dragon or councellor to reign as an oppressing
tyrant that ate the poor, both metaphorically and literally. He
was scared and afraid of seeing his doom from someone he
might have started to enjoy the company of, and also simply
believed he was too cunning and smart to take any form of
critiscim.
Most of Dragolia’s citizens were chromatic dragons, with
red and blue dragons holding the most rights and power, and
black and white ones the least. Red would serve as generals,
blue as nobles and courageous knights, green as scholars,
merchants and advisors to any dragon but Crystaffos, white
ones guards and scouts and black dragons interrogators,
torturers and entertainers. A few metallic and gem dragons
inhabitated the empire but held less power than their
chromatic cousins. Metallic dragons in particular, and silver
dragons especially, were treated with much less luxury and
rights than chromatic dragons. They were never nobles or
important characters, at best bourgeosie.
Now, many know of the ideologically opposite nature of
each dragon type: the white dragons are feral, black dragons
hate other dragon species, green dragons are manipulators,
and red dragons believe themselves to be the pinnacle of
dragonkind. Even stranger is how would this nation still work
when metallic, the rivals of the chromatic, and gem dragons
also inhabitated it? How would Crystaffos manage to form
and unify such different species? The answer is very simple:
he appealed to every dragon's deepest desire and their most
notorious flaw: gold and greed respectively. Crystaffos offered
gold, jewels, valuable items and entertainment to those who
would join him and stay loyal to him. After many attempts at
taking the throne for themselves, rogue dragons soon
realized the pure superiority of Crystaffos over them and the
dilemma they had to deal with: refuse such a good offer and
stay free, possibly hunted down one day, or submit to
Crystaffos, able to swim in pools of precious gems and money
while eating the finest of meals and witnessing the greatest of
spectacles, in exchange of vassality to the dragon? Most
chose the second option, with the ones most reluctant to
accepting it being red dragons, still refusing to see this blue
dracolich as superior to them.
How Crystaffos dealt with the Red Dragons. To solve
this issue, Crystaffos had three plans: the first was to offer
more gold and power to them than to the others: secretly, red
dragons would be as rich as any blue dragon aristocrat even if
they didn't work a lot. Second, Crystaffos employed them in
warfare almost all the time. As commanders, generals and
powerful leaders of his hordes, Crystaffos would make sure
they wouldn't have time to think about their shares and their
false hierarchical superiority, battling war after war until they
would die. Third and final, Crystaffos explained his might by
supposed "deific" origins. He was a dragon god, and as his
followers, all dragons, even red ones, had to revere him.
Some fanatical draconic followers of Tiamat were offended
by such blasphemy and tried to murder Crystaffos for it, to no
avail.
Tyrannic Overlord. Like any evil ruler knows, the best way to
assure its population's loyalty is by the power of fear and
ignorance. Crystaffos perfectly understood this, and set up
machiavelical schemes to control his people. He first
slaughtered the oldest generations of slaves and common
folk. These younger humanoids were teached from birth to
worship dragonkind, seeing them as the only gods of the
world, and that getting eaten, captured, or harmed in any way
by one was natural and to be expected and accepted. They
were teached that if they were not dead by a dragon or under
the servie of a dragon, then they wouldn't reach their heaven
afterwise. The children were falsely taught that the insides of
a dragon were portals to heaven, but that this portal would
only open if the dragon was willing to devour the people,
therefore preventing unwanted attempts to subdue and get
killed by an unwilling dragon.
The only beings that Crystaffos entrusted with the guard of
his vast empire were personally chosen and tested by him.
"Trust" might be a big word for this, as Crystaffos simply
respected these creatures for their strength and gifted them
with more wealth and power than the others. Such terrible
entities included red abishais and pit fiends of Tiamat, great
priests of the dragon deity, loyal greatwyrms who swore a
magical oath of loyalty to Crystaffos that would immediately
destroy them should they break it, and the 3 Overdragons:
three multi-headed dragons for each major category with a
head of each of their dragon type: the first resembled Tiamat
in almost every way except for the lack of a stinger tail like
her, the second was a fearsome paladin and herald of
Crystaffos, enforcing his master's will wherever it is needed,
and the last was said to be the second biggest hoarder of
gems and knowledge in Dragolia, right after Crystaffos
himself of course.
Small Resistances, continuous problems. Of course,
some humanoids didn't take kindly to being eaten, toyed with
and teached to completely submit to their draconic masters.
Yet, compared to the mythical and almost divine beings that
were dragons, their cries for freedom were like a drop of
water in an ocean: insignificant. While riots became an
almost daily event in the realm, quickly dealt with in less than
an hour by any dragon that was willing to spend the time
dealing with the disrupters of law, none were as big as
Collin's one. Collin was a powerful half-elf champion of Tyr,
who earnt the deity's great power.
Collin led the most important of civil wars against
Crystaffos, slowly but surely managing to regain small
portions of Dragolia and rehabilitate them into better places.
However, this streak of victory was short-lived, for soon after
Crystaffos sent Groandinn, the Chromatic Overdragon, to
deal with Collin's armies. In a matter of hours, all of the half-
elf's forces were pulverized, eaten, burnt, liquified, suffocated,
reduced to ash and soon Groandinn arrived in front of the
half-elf.
However, instead of losing hope, Collin led one, final,
suicidal assault against Groandinn. In a series of swift strikes
from his magical and blessed longsword, Collin managed to
cut off Groandinn's blue head, and then the black one, and
then the white one, and then Collin got struck. He was struck
by the Overdragon's claw, rending his armor into torn apart
pieces of adamantine, and his body was severely wounded.
He thought he would die here and there, leaving these people
hopeless, but a fate much worse awaited him. Groandinn
captured him and dropped him in the care of his master
Crystaffos to deal with.
For his riots, Collin was tortured for weeks and finally
hanged in public, leaving no doubts about the cruelty of
Crystaffos and forever ceasing all further attempts to
dethrone the dragon emperor.
The war with Grendar Goldbeard. Over the decades and
centuries, Dragolia's influence throughout the entire material
plane and other dimentions could be felt even by the most
isolated of hermits. The power and influence the empire had
was so great that loyal dragons were favorized by the Weave
and other magical forces: they had advantage against all
types of magic and could set their own terms and conditions
to deals they'd possibly make with devils, and regularly
ventured into the Abyss for sport, slaying hordes of demons
as simple entertainment, and teleported back to their home
unscathed as easily.
Yet, what still worried Crystaffos was that dragonkind's
greatest rivals- the giants- hadn't made any move on them yet.
apart form the occasional hill giant destroying a house,
ruining a farmer's land, or the even rarer frost giant
attempting murder upon a young dragon, nothing else related
to them happened. At first, his ego took the better of him and
he simply believed giantkind understood their place and
didn't attempt anything out of fear, but the sudden attack
upon one of the more important cities by their sworn
enemies proved this to be wrong. Hundreds of giants of all
types swarmed the place in the blink of an eye, as if all
suddenly teleported to such a place, and ravaged about a
third of the city before being repelled. The attack left
everyone shocked: of course, who wouldn't be when
thousands of cloud, fire, storm, hill, stone and frost giants,
ogres, humanoids, rocs and ichneumons - dragon slaying
beasts - suddenly appear out of nowhere to destroy your
home?
The leader of this rising war revealed himself to Crystaffos
in the dracolich's throne room: Grendar Goldbeard, a
Demigod of Storms, who taunted and insulted the dragon
who couldn't even move because of some sort of spell put on
him. Humiliated in his own palace, Crystaffos swore to make
Grendar pay with his life, but not before reducing to nothing
everything he had.
Crystaffos and nearly all of his forces went in search of
Grendar and decimated all opposition. After years of search,
both entities found each other and engaged in a deadly fight.
The echoing blows of their thunder and lightning bolts
smashing the ground and destroying the landscape left a
deep mark upon the mountain they fought upon, scarred with
deep cuts and reduced by over 300ft of its initial height.
Finally, Grendar almost killed Crystaffos, but got caught by a
cheap blow of his adversary, causing him to get decapitated
by the sharp ends of Crystaffos' wings.
Cursed Hoard and Being. Crystaffos understood as riots,
coup d'états and enemies multiplied that his power was at
risk, and that should he one day fall, everything would be lost.
To prevent this from happening, Crystaffos bargained with
evil powers like Orcus and his goddess Tiamat to become
unkillable, to always come back and exist for all of eternity. At
first hesitant at the idea of creating a new, potent adversary,
the two powers accepted Crystaffos’ offer in exchange of his
help.
He would create and honor undeath, turning the art of
necromancy into a necessary subject at some humanoid
schools and most draconic universities, making cults to
Orcus and sacrifice ten thousand souls to the demon lord on
a monthly basis.
Tiamat on the other end asked nothing more than the total
banishment of metallic dragons of Dragolia. And so
Crystaffos obliged. Soon, millions of gold, silver, brass and
other metallic reptiles flew across the world, chased by their
tyrannic lord. Crystaffos was indeed strong enough to create
such fear into the hearts of even the most arrogant of gold
dragons if it meant achieving his goal.
In exchange for these actions that showed his appreciation
for Orcus and Tiamat, he was offered true eternity. Whenever
he would die from any creature, he would slowly corrupt and
take possession of whoever landed the final blow on him, and
shapechange back into his real self. This way, Crystaffos
became the undisputed greatest dragon of his time.
Rise to Deific Power. Crystaffos used his unremovable
immortality to become even stronger: he undertook multiple
campaigns into foreign lands and planes of existence to
retrieve mythic artifacts, expand his territory and gain cults
dedicated to his worship. He learnt arcane and profane
secrets and spells, mastered his lighning to an
unprecedented level, conquered entire worlds and rejoiced
upon his glorious legacy.
One of Crystaffos' most notorious new attacks is that of his
giant, lighning spear. He could summon a colossal bolt of
lighning in his hand to use either as a spear, sword or javelin,
swinging it with the might of a storm and throwing it with
such speed not even the quickest of creatures can escape it,
crashing into a massive explosion of thunder and lighning.
The Fall. As Crystaffos was living for what was his
trillionth day in this world, he saw from outside his palace
twelve, shining figures descend from the skies. The figures
launched an all out attack against Crystaffos and Dragolia,
aided by armies of humanoids and celestials. Entire cities
burnt, froze, melted, and were destroyed by an endless
massacre.
The streets were soon filled with rivers of blood mixing
that of men, angels and dragons. Soon into the fight,
Crystaffos understood who these twelve beings were: deific
avatars. He realized in this single moment that he had
become so powerful and fearsome the very gods decided to
take action and come down from their upper planes to deliver
justice to Crystaffos.
After a battle that spanned over an hour, both parties were
severely weakened, and in a final attempt, a deity of war
managed to fell the beast, decapitating Crystaffos in one,
mighty divine sword swing.
However, as his consciousness soon left him, Crystaffos
wasn’t afraid, he was instead laughing, for he knew that soon
he would corrupt the god and take possession of them. This
is, of course, what happened, but this is also what the gods
hoped would happen. They had prepared for this terrific
curse, and created a portal towards a demiplane that was an
entire antimagic field. There, Crystaffos would indeed come
back, definitively killing the deity, but he would also be unable
to leave this plane, forever stuck somewhere he cannot cast
spells or teleport away from. Once he realized that, Crystaffos
screamed, roared, entered a rage like never seen before, as
his empire and all of his progress would wither away in the
sands of time, leaving nothing but fragments of his great
work.
Return of the King. After millenias have passed, few are
the remains of Dragolia and of Crystaffos' influence. The
eldest of creatures still remember the terror and power of the
dragon: the mighty demon lords and archdevils shiver at the
mention of the name of this being, the rulers of planes of
existence recall the endless armies of undead, humanoids
and dragons spreading carnage through their homes, and the
only ones who rejoice upon hearing the creature's name are
Orcus and Tiamat, who instead smirk when this happens.
Seeing how vast and important Dragolia was in its time,
many ruins of its past glory still remain, from crumbled
castles and buildings to books narrating its glory, as well as
the influence Crystaffos’ campaigns had on the multiverse.
Nowadays, many cults revere and worship Crystaffos, with
at their head descendants of the dragon's allies. This worship
of thousand has had the effect of summoning the Overgod Ao
himself to see Crystaffos's power for himself, and once he
saw the dracolich's reign of terror and terrifying power,
Crystaffos ascended to godhood, becoming an intermediate
Dragon Deity of Tyranny, Power, Wealth and Hubris.
However, the dragon god is still imprisonned in his planar
prison, and the most it can summon of its power on the
material plane is but an avatar that pales in comparison to his
real power. An Avatar of Crystaffos uses the statblock of a
Greatwyrm Blue Dragon (The_DMs_Tome's one) with
immunity to poison damage and resistance to necrotic
damage, as well as the added Immortality, Thunder Spear
and Lightning Spear abilities of Crystaffos' statblock. It
remains a reasonably horrifying and dangerous threat to the
region it is summoned in, and powerful enough to serve as a
BBEG for most non-epic dnd campaigns.
Mythic Creatures Mythic Rank: Epic level creatures
of CR30+ may have a Mythic rating in their
statblock. Such a number indicates the number of
times the experience points normally awarded by
its CR should be multiplied by to get the actual
total amount of XP it gives if defeated.
Here, Crystaffos has a Mythic Rank of 5, which
means its normal XP value of 650,000XP should
be multiplied by 5 for its first phase, giving
3,250,000XP , and 3,250,000 more XP if he is
defeated in his second phase as well.
Crystaffos
Gargantuan Dragon Undead Intermediate Deity
(dracolich), lawful evil
Armor Class 42 (Natural armor)
Hit Points 1580 (40d20 + 1160)
Speed 60ft., fly 150ft.
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA
50 (+20) 24 (+7) 69 (+29) 39 (+14) 26 (+8) 29 (+9)
Saving Throws Strength +32, Dexterity +19,
Constitution +31, Intelligence +26, Wisdom +20,
Charisma +21
Skills Intimidation +33, Perception +32, Stealth +14,
Persuasion +33
Damage Resistances necrotic
Damage Immunities bludgeoning; piercing and slashing
damage from nonmagical weapons, lightning, poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened,
paralyzed, poisoned, petrified
Senses truesight 300ft, passive Perception 42
Languages All, telepathy 5 miles (Can speak to animals,
plants or other creatures that do not speak any
language as if they shared one.)
Challenge 44 (650,000XP) Proficiency Bonus: +12
Mythic 5
Legendary Resistance (8/Day). If Crystaffos fails a saving
throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Crystaffos’ Curse. A creature that reduces Crystaffos to
0 hit points is doomed with eventually becoming
Crystaffos themselves. At the start of each new day,
they must succeed on a DC20 Charisma saving throw
or have their alignment change to Lawful Evil if it
already wasn’t and be charmed by Crystaffos. This
effect lasts for one hour. If the creature fails the save
more than 5 times, Crystaffos devours the soul of the
creature and possesses its body. Crystaffos can then
transform back into his normal statblock and self as a
bonus action.
Divine Resilience. Crystaffos automatically succeeds on
saving throws that allow him to halve damage on a
successful save and automatically takes no damage if
the attack was dealt by a creature with less than 100
hit points. If the creature has 100 hit points or more
but wasn’t a god, then Crystaffos makes the save with
advantage, taking no damage on a successful save and
only half on a failed save. He makes the save without
any of these bonuses if the attack that required a save
was made by another god or a similarly powerful
creature.
Crystaffos is also immune to critical hits. incapacitated. On a failed save, the creature takes 42
Divine Spellcasting. When Crystaffos casts a spell, he
A creature that isn't surprised
does so with advantage. Resistance and immunity to
magic like that of a Rakshasa or a demon’s Magic
Resistance trait are bypassed by any spell or magical
effect cast by Crystaffos.
Crystaffos is himself immune it looks at Crystaffos in the meantime, it must
to any spell or magical effect of 6th level or lower it
wishes not to be affected by.
Divine Power. Every attack made by Crystaffos that
deals bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage is
considered magical.
Divine Hierarchy. Crystaffos has disadvantage on attack
rolls, ability checks and saving throws against any Deity
that is higher than him in the hierarchical order of
deities. Crystaffos is an Intermediate Deity.
Immortal. Unless he was permanently killed in his lair or
plane of existence, Crystaffos comes back to life in its
plane of existence 1d6 days later but cannot go to
another plane or summon an avatar for 1d100 years.
Magic Resistance. Crystaffos has advantage on saving
throws against spells and other magical effects.
Dragon Might. Crystaffos has a bonus of +5 to all
Strength checks.
Dragon Flight. Crystaffos' agility in the air is remarkable.
While flying, Crystaffos has a bonus of +2 to his AC.
Dragon Charisma. Crystaffos has advantages on all
Charisma (Intimidation, Persuastion) checks.
Lightning Absorption. Whenever Crystaffos is subjected
to lightning damage, he takes no damage and instead
regains a number of hit points equal to the lightning
damage dealt.
Turn Immunity. Crystaffos is immune to turn undead
effects.
Blue Dragon Aerial Prowess. While flying, Crystaffos
gains a bonus of +5 to attack rolls and a bonus of +2 to
his AC. Crystaffos also deals an additional hit die with
all his attacks while flying.
Blue Dragon Charged Body. While below half his
maximum hit points, Crystaffos deals an additional 22
(4d10) lightning damage with every attack.
Additionally, any creature that hits Crystaffos within
25ft of him is attacked by a furious lightning bolt that
strikes back, dealing 27 (5d10) lightning damage.
Mythic Creature (Recharges after a short or long rest).
When Crystaffos is reduced to 0 hit points, he instead
regains 1,500 hit points and gains the following
changes:
He recharges all his spent legendary resistances and
his rechargable attacks.
He can now use his Mythic Actions and Traits.
The party gains an additional 650,000 Base XP from
slaying Crystaffos in this state.
Withering Gaze. If a creature starts its turn within
120ft. of Crystaffos and the two of them can see each
other, Crystaffos can force the creature to make a
DC30 Constitution saving throw if Crystaffos isn't
(12d6) necrotic damage.
can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start
of its turn. If it does so, it can't see Crystaffos until the
start of its next turn, when it can avert its eyes again. If
immediately make the save.
Death and Electricity Aura. Crystaffos radiates an aura of
elecrical and necrotic energy. Every hostile creature
within 50ft of Crystaffos that start their turn within that
are take 11 (2d10) lightning damage plus 11 (2d10)
necrotic damage and are poisoned until they leave this
aura. Crystaffos has advantage on saving throws against
spells and other magical effects.
Thunder Spear. As a bonus action, Crystaffos summons
a giant, lightning spear in his hand. The lightning spear
is treated as a magical weapon and replaces one or
more of Crystaffos’ claw attacks each turn. Consult the
Lightning Spear action for more information about it.
Storm Strikes. When Crystaffos hits a creature more
than two times in a single turn, the target is subject to
sudden lightning bursting from them. The target must
succeed on a DC32 Constitution saving throw or take
44 (8d10) lightning damage. In addition, every creature
within a 15ft sphere of this target must succeed on a
DC27 Dexterity saving throw or take 22 (5d8)
lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much
damage on a successful one.
Actions
Multiattack. Crystaffos can use his Frigthful Presence.
He then makes five attacks: two with his claws, one
with his bite, and two with his tails. He can instead
make up to four wing slam or wing slash attacks
instead after using his frightful presence. Crystaffos can
also instead choose to use his frightful presence, then
perform two melee attacks of his choice and two
lightning ball attacks.
Frightful Presence. Each creature of Crystaffos's choice
that is within 1 mile of Crystaffos and aware of it must
succeed on a DC40 Wisdom saving throw or become
frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the
saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the
effect on itself on a success. If a creature's saving
throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the
creature is immune to Crystaffos's Frightful Presence
for the next 24 hours.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +32 to hit, reach 20ft., one
target. Hit: 52 (5d12 + 20) piercing damage plus 40
(9d8) lightning damage.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +32 to hit, reach 15ft.,
one target. Hit: 38 (4d8 + 20) slashing damage plus
27 (6d8) lightning damage.
Tails. Melee Weapon Attack: +32 to hit, reach 30 ft., up
to three targets within reach. Hit: 47 (6d8 + 20)
bludgeoning damage plus 27 (5d10) lightning damage.
Wing Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach
50ft., up to three targets within reach. Hit: 46 (4d12 +
20) bludgeoning damage and the target is knocked
prone. If the target had a strength score of 20 or higher
or was size large or larger, it can instead make a DC30
Strength saving throw, not getting knocked prone on a
successful save.
Wing Slash. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach
40ft., up to five targets within reach. Hit: 59 (6d12 +
20) slashing damage and the target must succeed on a
DC27 Constitution saving throw or take 36 (8d8)
lightning damage as well.
Innate Spellcasting. Crystaffos's innate spellcasting
ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 34, +26 to hit with
spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells,
requiring no material components:
At will: Lightning Bolt, Blur (8th Level), Hallucinatory
Terrain, Invisibility, Thunderwave, Dust Devil, See
Invisibility, Create or Destroy Water, Major Image
5/day each: Arcane Eye, Control Weather,
Polymorph, Dominate Monster, Storm Sphere (8th
Level)
3/day each: Teleport, Chain Lightning, Disintegrate,
Investiture of Wind, Finger of Death
1/day each: Time Stop, Meteor Swarm, Psychic
Scream, Power Word Kill, Storm Of Vengeance
Spellcasting. Crystaffos is an epic-level spellcaster. Its
spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 34,
+26 to hit with spell attacks). The Crystaffos has the
following spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): All cantrips
1st level (10 slots): All 1st Level spells
2nd level (9 slots): All 2nd Level spells
3rd level (9 slots): All 3rd Level spells
4th level (8 slots): All 4th Level spells
5th level (7 slots): Animate objects, Cloudkill,
Control Winds, Modify Memory, Wall of Force
6th level (6 slots): Chain Lightning, Create Undead,
Flesh to Stone, Soul Cage
7th level (5 slots): Magnificent Mansion, Reverse
Gravity, Whirlwind
8th level (4 slots): Feeblemind, Mind Blank
9th level (3 slots): Imprisonnment, Weird
Lightning Ball Crystaffos exhales a powerful ball of
lightning to a point up to 500ft away. The lightning ball
is a 15ft diameter sphere, and deals 54 (12d8)
lightning damage upon impact. Targets can halve the
damage done with a successful DC24 Dexterity saving
throw.
Lightning Burst. Crystaffos bursts into crackling
lightning with the might of a storm. Anybody within a
200ft radius sphere of Crystaffos must succeed on a
DC38 Constitution saving throw or take 130 (20d12)
lightning damage plus 67 (15d8) thunder damage on a
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
save.
Lighning Spear (Thunder Spear trait active only). The
spear is treated as a magical melee or ranged weapon,
with a reach of 50ft for melee and a range of
100/2600ft as a ranged weapon. The weapon has a
+32 To hit, and deals 44 (8d10) lightning damage on a
hit as a melee weapon. If thrown, the lightning spear
instead crashes onto a 15ft radius circle within range
and every creature within that circle must succeed on a
DC35 Constitution saving throw or take 67 (15d8)
lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a
successful one. Once used as a ranged weapon, the
spear disappears from Crystaffos’ hand and he can’t
summon another spear for 1d6+2 rounds.
Thunder Barrage (Recharge 5-6). Crystaffos sends out a
wave of deadly lighning in a 300ft line that is 100ft
wide. Every target within this line must succeed on a
DC30 Dexterity saving throw or take 82 (15d10)
lightning damage plus 82 (15d10) thunder damage
and be pushed back 120ft and stunned for one minute
on a failed save, or take half as much damage, be
pushed back 30ft and knocked prone on a successful
save.
A creature that fails this save by 5 or more is instead
knocked unconscious for an hour. A creature within 5ft
of the unconscious creature can spend their turn
attempting to shake them awake with a successful
DC16 Wisdom (Medecine) check.
Breath Weapons (Recharge 5-6). Crystaffos uses one of
the following breath weapons:
Crystal Breath. Crystaffos exhales arcane crystals in a
300-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make
a DC30 Dexterity saving throw, taking 162 (25d12)
piercing damage plus 198 (36d10) force damage on
a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
one. Creatures reduced to 0 hit points by this
attack's force damage are reduced to dust.
Lightning Breath. Crystaffos exhales arcane crystals in
a 300-foot cone. Each creature in that area must
make a DC30 Dexterity saving throw, taking 416
(64d12) lightning damage on a failed save, or half as
much damage on a successful one.
Negative Energy Breath Crystaffos exhales necrotic
and withering power in a 300-foot cone. Each
creature in that area must make a DC30 Dexterity
saving throw, taking 312 (48d12) necrotic damage
on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one.
Summon Dragon Spirits (5/Day). Crystaffos summons
the spirits of fallen dragons to aid him in battle within
individual spots he can see within 1 mile of him. The
dragons can either be 1d6 Shadow Dragons of your
choosing (Size and Age must be below gargantuan and
ancient respectively), 1d4 Ghost Dragons (See Fizban’s
Treasury of Dragons), or 1d8 Adult or younger dragons
of any type with immunity to poison, necrotic and
bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage from
nonmagical weapons, but vulnerability to force and
radiant damage. The dragons act as Crystaffos’ allies,
and take their turn right after him. A summoned dragon
stays for one minute or until Crystaffos dies, is
incapacitated, teleported over 1 mile away from the
dragon, unconscious or until dismissed by Crystaffos
as a bonus action.
Sandstorm (Recharge 5-6). Crystaffos summons a
gargantuan sandstorm in a 1 mile radius circle centered
on himself. The storm is up to 300ft above the ground.
Ranged attacks made within this area are made with
disadvantage. All creatures within this storm must
succeed on a DC15 Constitution saving throw at the
start of each of their turns or be blinded for one
minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the
start of each of their turns, ending the effect on itself
on a success. As an action, reaction, bonus action,
legendary action or mythic action, Crystaffos can
choose to make the storm have one of the following
effects:
A blast of sand attacks a 15ft radius sphere point
within the storm’s space. Every creature within that
area must succeed on a DC25 Dexterity saving
throw or 14 (4d6) piercing damage plus 14 (4d6)
bludgeoning damage and be pushed back 10ft on a
failed save, or take half as much damage and not be
knocked back on a successful save.
A sphere of sand surrounds and protects the dragon
from outside attacks and effects. Attacks and other
effects against Crystaffos have disadvantage until
this sphere is dismissed as a bonus action or after
1d8 turns.
The damage dealt by the storm doubles if dealt to
objects, structures or constructs. The storm lasts for
one minute, until Crystaffos dies, is incapacitated, is
nconscious, dismisses it as an action or is on a
different plane of existence. After using this attack,
Crystaffos cannot use it for 6 rounds, before he can
attempts to recharge it again.
Thunderstorm (Recharge 6). Crystaffos summons a
gargantuan storm in a 1 mile radius circle centered on
himself. The storm is up to 500ft above the ground.
Ranged attacks made within this area are made with
disadvantage. All flying creatures except those of size
large or larger or with an AC of 17 or higher can only
fly to half their flying speed and must succeed on a
DC15 Strength saving throw after flying or start falling
from the sky due to the sheer pressure of the winds. As
an action, reaction, bonus action, legendary action or
mythic action, Crystaffos can choose to make the
storm have one of the following effects:
1d4+2 bolts of lightning descend from the clouds of
the storm, and attack one target within the storm’s
space. Each of these targets must succeed on a
DC42 Dexterity saving throw or take 44 (8d10)
lightning damage on a failed save.
Strong and razor-sharp wings swing throughout the
storm, threatening to send flying away creatures and
objects alike. The winds can be a 300ft line that is
10ft wide or a 120ft cone (Crystaffos’s Choice),
originating from any point within the storm. Every
affected target must succeed on a DC40 Strength
saving throw or take 36 (8d8) bludgeoning damage
plus 49 (14d6) slashing damage and be sent 1d10
x30ft high up in the air. Unless the creature has a
flying speed, it then starts falling to the ground on
the following turns, and is considered incapacitated
until then. On what should be the creature’s turn,
Crystaffos may instead choose to create even more
strong winds or lightning bolts to attack the
creature. While attacked in this way the creature
stops falling to the ground for a round but takes 35
(10d6) bludgeoning or slashing damage or 36 (8d8)
lightning damage as winds, lightning or other
objects such as flying debris or other affected
targets hit it back up. If Crystaffos decides to attack a
falling creature, he must himself make a DC27
Wisdom saving throw or be unable to use any effect
of the storm until the start of his next round.
 Echoing thunder suddenly roars at a 30ft radius
spherical point within the storm's space of
Crystaffos’ choosing. Every creature within that
sphere and up to 15ft away from it must succeed on
a DC36 Strength saving throw or be pushed back
25ft on a failed save, and then a DC30 Constitution
saving throw or take 55 (10d10) thunder damage on
a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
save.
The damage dealt by one of the effects of the storm
bypasses resistance and immunity to that type and
doubles if dealt to objects, structures or constructs.
The storm lasts for one minute, until Crystaffos dies, is
incapacitated, unconscious, dismisses it as an action or
is on a different plane of existence. After using this
attack, Crystaffos cannot use it for 6 rounds, before he
can attempts to recharge it again.
Groundbreaker Lightning. Crystaffos may move up to
half his walking speed or flying speed for this attack.
He then starts concentrating to later release
tremendous amounts of lightning. He is considered
incapacitated until the start of his next turn. At the
start of his next turn, he releases all this lightning, from
his claws he pushed through the ground if on a solid
surface or as a gigantic electric explosion if flying.
Every creature within a 100ft radius sphere centered
on Crystaffos must succeed on a DC36 Constitution
saving throw or take 135 (30d8) lightning damage on
a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
save. This attack deals double damage to affected
creatures burrowed underground or already hit an
attack that dealt lightning damage from Crystaffos less
than two turns ago.
In addition, the sky and ground hit by this attacks
becomes electrified. A creature that starts its turn
within the affected space must succeed on a DC16
Constitution saving throw or take 9 (2d8) lightning
damage and have their speed reduced to 0 on a failed
save, or take half as much damage and not have their
speed reduced on a successful save.
Finally, if used on the ground, then the attack also
causes the ground around it to rise up, either in the
form of spiked stones or falling boulders. For the first
option, every creature within the affected space must
succeed on a DC21 Dexterity saving throw or take 21
(6d6) piercing damage on a failed save. For the second
option, 1d6 boulders are sent flying to only crash down
within spots determined by the DM within 60ft of
Crystaffos. The boulders are 5x5ft spheres of rock that
deal 22 (4d10) bludgeoning damage upon impact. The
damage from these boulders can be prevented with a
successful DC16 Dexterity saving throw.
Reactions
Crisis Armor. When Crystaffos takes over 100 damage
from a single attack, he gains immunity to all damage
dealt by the attacker for 1d4 turns. Crystaffos can use
this crisis armor against up to 3 creatures at once,
replacing any previous one by the new one.
Legendary Actions
Crystaffos can take 5 legendary actions, choosing from
the options below. Only one legendary action option
can be used at a time and only at the end of another
creature's turn. Crystaffos regains spent legendary
actions at the start of his turn.
Detect. Crystaffos makes a Wisdom (Perception) check.
Claw Attack. Crystaffos makes a claw attack.
Tail Attack. Crystaffos makes a tail attack.
Sand Cloud (Costs 2 actions). Crystaffos creates a 40-
foot radius sphere of sand swirls centered on a point
he can see within 400 feet of him. The sphere spreads
around corners and last 1d8 rounds. Each creature that
starts its turn in the cloud must succeed on a DC 27
Constitution saving throw or be blinded for 1 minute.
A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of
each of its turn; ending the effect on itself on a
success.
Wing Attack (Costs 2 actions). Crystaffos makes either a
wing slam or wing slash attack.
Arcane Spears (Costs 3 actions). Crystaffos creates four
spears of magical force. Each spear hits a creature of
Crystaffos's choice he can see within 300ft of him,
dealing

Mythic Actions and Traits
Crystaffos can use mythic actions either as regular
actions or legendary actions. Mythic actions and traits
are active and usable if his Mythic Creature trait was
activated within the last hour. He has access to the
following actions and traits from now on:
Lighning Shield (Full round Action). Crystaffos surrounds
himself in protective lightning. He gains a bonus of +5
to his AC and resistance to all damage except psychic
Until the end of his next turn, Crystaffos
and radiant. This magical shield lasts for one minute or
until Crystaffos is reduced to 0 hit points, knocked
unconscious or is incapacitated.
Shocking Strikes (Trait). When a creature takes over 50
lightning damage from Crystaffos, it must succeed on a
DC20 Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed or
stunned (Crystaffos’ choice) for 1d4+2 turns.
Critical critical attacks (Trait). When Crystaffos critical
hits, he quadruples the damage dealt instead, rounded
up.
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Greatwyrm's Soul (1/Day) (Full Round Action). Crystaffos
unleashes all his might in a single attack. Every target
within 600ft of Crystaffos must succeed on a DC60
Dexterity saving throw or take 472 (45d20) lightning
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
successful one. Any creature reduced to 0 hit points by
this attack is reduced to ash and can only be
resurrected via the Wish Spell up to one hour after its
death, otherwise its soul is destroyed as well
completely, making their resurrection completely
impossible.
cannot take any actions or reactions.
Create Portals (Recharge 6) (Full Round Action).
Crystaffos creates up to three portals to the elemental
plane of air within 250ft of him, from which come out
1d6 air elementals. The elementals are unaturally
aggressive and attack all hostile creatures to Crystaffos,
taking their turn right after Crystaffos's.