Unreviewed Zaldrakaar the White Wyrm

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To introduce a singular Sithspawn Ice Dragon created by Darth Prazutis as a gift to the Sith Empress Srina Talon .
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• Name: Zaldrakaar the White Wyrm, the Winter Sovereign, the Frozen Titan
• Designation: Semi-Sentient
• Origins: Sith Citadel, Dromund Kaas by Darth Prazutis
• Average Lifespan: 600-900 Galactic Standard Years
• Estimated Population: Unique
• Description: Zaldrakaar, known as the Winter Sovereign, is a singular male Sithspawn dragon forged through advanced Sith alchemy by the Shadow Hand. He is a completely unique biological organism engineered and perfected through forbidden rites. His white crystalline scales shimmer like glacial marble beneath starlight, and faint veins of frost blue luminance pulse beneath his armor when his internal cryo-organs awaken. He embodies winter not merely as element, but as dominion, a living storm wrought into flesh and bone. Created as both weapon and offering, Zaldrakaar stands as the Empress' companion in war, a manifestation of frozen inevitability.

• Breathes: Type I - Zaldrakaar is capable of sustained extreme high-altitude flight and can tolerate extreme cold environments with no impairment. Thin atmospheres reduce endurance but do not prevent function.
• Average Height of Adults: 8 meters at the shoulder.
• Average Length of Adults: Approximately 28 meters from snout to tail tip, with a wingspan exceeding that measurement and capable of casting a shadow over full battalion formations.
• Skin Color: Layered crystalline scales in white, pale silver, and faint glacial hues. In colder environments, the scales take on a subtle translucent sheen as frost crystallization blooms from within.
• Hair Color: N/A. No hair. Frilled and reduced dorsal spines display faint ice-blue luminescence when active.
• Distinctions: Zaldrakaar is a singular male draconic organism engineered through Sith alchemy. His musculature is dense and glacier-heavy, concentrated particularly along the thorax, forelimbs, and wing roots to sustain aerial dominance. His scales are not organic hide alone, but layered crystalline armor forged through alchemical reinforcement. Upon impact, these scales disperse force across micro-fracturing lattices rather than absorbing damage at a single point.
  
  His dorsal spines have been intentionally reduced in height to allow mounted combat, creating a reinforced saddle zone along his back while maintaining defensive ridge protection. When his cryogenic systems activate, faint glacial luminescence pulses beneath his scales and along spinal veins, accompanied by visible vapor escaping his jaws even in temperate climates. His eyes burn with sapphire intensity, reflecting an internal frost resonance rather than traditional flame.
  
  Beneath his armored chest lies a complex cryogenic gland network, an engineered organ system that produces hyper-cooled alchemical compounds responsible for his frost breath. As he matures, scale density thickens and crystalline reinforcement becomes more pronounced, particularly around the chest, shoulders, and skull. His wings grow broader and more rigid with age, increasing aerial stability. There are no regional variations or subspecies, as he is a singular creation.
• Races: None. Zaldrakaar is a unique, singular organism with no subspecies or racial divisions.
• Force Sensitivity: All - Zaldrakaar is not Force sensitive in the traditional sense and does not actively manipulate the Force. However, Sith alchemy has infused his physiology with dark side resonance, sharpening his predatory instincts and amplifying the oppressive presence he exerts on the battlefield. He does not channel powers consciously, but his existence carries residual dark side influence. Zaldrakaar does actively form a force bond with his chosen rider, in this case the Sith Empress.

• Glacial Sovereign Physiology: Zaldrakaar generates frost internally through an alchemically engineered cryo-gland complex embedded deep within his thoracic cavity and spinal column. This biological system produces hyper-cooled compounds that flash-freeze air upon expulsion. His breath can manifest as a wide froststorm cone capable of flash-freezing terrain and immobilizing armor joints, as a focused cryo-lance that supercools heavy plating to brittle fracture points, or as a rolling ground-hugging cryo-bloom that transforms battlefield terrain into hazardous ice fields. This ability is biologically driven rather than mystical projection, and while devastating, it draws from internal reserves that require recovery after sustained use.
• Permafrost Aura: Even when not actively attacking, Zaldrakaar radiates a constant drop in ambient temperature. Within a broad radius around him, breath turns to vapor, frost creeps across surfaces, exposed metal grows increasingly brittle, and moisture crystallizes along armor seams and weapon housings. Prolonged stationary presence can reshape the terrain into frozen kill zones, especially in already cold climates where his aura amplifies naturally occurring conditions. This passive thermal dominance makes him a walking environmental hazard in extended engagements.
• Cryo-Resonant Crystalline Scales: His scales are layered crystalline structures forged through Sith alchemical reinforcement. Upon impact, micro-fracturing patterns disperse kinetic force across multiple scale segments rather than concentrating it at a single point. In colder environments, these crystalline structures stabilize and harden further, increasing his durability. While not invulnerable, this adaptive crystalline lattice allows him to endure punishment far beyond natural draconic physiology.
• Apex Predator: Zaldrakaar is not merely large, he is engineered for war. His immense frame combines glacier-dense musculature with aerodynamic wing structure, allowing bursts of surprising speed despite his immense size. In open air he can descend like an avalanche, striking with enough mass and momentum to shatter armored vehicles, fortifications, and tightly packed infantry formations. On the ground, his forelimbs possess crushing strength capable of splintering even the heaviest plating and pulverizing heavy armor through repeated impact.
  
  His ferocity in battle is heightened by Sith alchemical conditioning that suppresses hesitation and pain response. When engaged, he does not retreat easily. He presses, tears, and overwhelms with predatory instinct sharpened beyond natural aggression. His tail can sweep through defensive lines, his jaws can shear through reinforced materials, and his wings generate shockwaves of displaced air powerful enough to stagger opponents at close range.
  
  Despite his size, Zaldrakaar is not sluggish, he is surprisingly swift for his size. He is capable of rapid directional adjustments mid-flight and violent, short-range lunges that catch enemies unprepared. His battlefield presence combines brute force with predatory acceleration, making him both a siege engine and a shock assault weapon.
• Sovereign Dread Presence: Zaldrakaar's immense form, predatory stillness, and subsonic resonance vibrations create a profound psychological impact on those who face him. Lesser troops may falter, mounts may panic, and unseasoned warriors often hesitate beneath his shadow. This dread is a form of fear aura, an amplified apex predator response intensified by dark side alchemical resonance. Even trained soldiers must exert discipline to maintain composure in his immediate presence.
• Winter Dominion Aerial Control: During flight, Zaldrakaar's wing displacement supercools displaced air, creating localized whiteout conditions and atmospheric distortion. Dive passes are often accompanied by sudden temperature plunges that freeze artillery mechanisms, reduce visibility, and fracture exposed machinery. His ability to manipulate battlefield conditions through movement alone makes him a powerful force multiplier in open-air engagements.

• Thermal Vulnerability: Sustained exposure to extreme heat environments, volcanic terrain, or concentrated plasma weaponry reduces the efficiency of Zaldrakaar's cryogenic systems. In high-heat conditions, his scale regeneration slows and his frost output becomes less potent, requiring longer recovery intervals between breath attacks.
• Loyalty: Zaldrakaar is absolutely loyal to his bonded rider even beyond death itself. This means that should his rider fall, the dragon will fall into an uncontrollable rampage until it is killed.
• Cryogenic Reserve Limitation: Zaldrakaar's frost breath is fueled by internal biological reserves rather than infinite mystical energy. Repeated or prolonged use of his most devastating exhalations taxes his cryo-gland system and forces temporary metabolic recovery periods before full potency can be restored.
• Size and Maneuver Constraints: While immense size grants battlefield dominance, it limits effectiveness in enclosed spaces such as urban interiors, hangars, or subterranean complexes. His wingspan and body mass require open engagement zones for optimal performance.
• Sustained Heavy Ordnance Exposure: Though highly durable, concentrated heavy artillery, anti-air batteries, or coordinated plasma bombardment can fracture his crystalline scales over time. Focused fire from multiple sources presents a significant threat if not countered through mobility or environmental control.

• Diet: Carnivore. Zaldrakaar feeds primarily on large fauna, megafaunal predators, and battlefield carrion. His metabolism requires high-density protein and mineral intake to sustain his glacier-dense musculature and crystalline scale regeneration. He prefers fresh prey but can subsist on preserved or frozen meat without issue. His alchemically enhanced digestion allows him to process bone and armor fragments without harm. Extremely high heat toxins or corrosive chemical agents can disrupt his internal cryo-gland equilibrium if ingested in excess.
• Communication: Zaldrakaar communicates through deep subsonic roars that vibrate through terrain and armor alike, complex body language expressed through wing posture and tail movement, and an empathic resonance bond formed specifically with the Sith Empress Srina Talon. This bond does not grant speech but conveys emotional states, threat awareness, and directional intent. He does not speak Basic or any known language.
• Technology Level: None. Zaldrakaar is a singular war organism and does not possess or produce technology.
• Religion/Beliefs: Zaldrakaar possesses no theology or ideology. However, he recognizes dominance hierarchies instinctively and bonds absolutely to the one he acknowledges as sovereign. His loyalty is not symbolic, it is biologically encoded through alchemical imprinting. Once it is imprinted, it cannot be removed.
• General Behavior: Zaldrakaar exhibits calculated stillness outside of combat. He conserves energy like a glacier poised above a valley, unmoving and patient until violence is required. He is territorial and intensely protective of his bonded rider. Threats directed at Srina Talon trigger immediate aggression response. He hunts efficiently, kills cleanly when unopposed, and displays no cruelty for its own sake, only purpose. Over time his behavior is influenced by his rider.

In the aftermath of the Invasion of Brosi, when ash still drifted across ruined skies and the banners of conquest hung heavy in the air, and the Sith Empire stood victorious, the Shadow Hand of the Kainate did not seek applause or tribute. He sought legacy. A turning of the page within his relationship with the Sith Empress. The gift he envisioned was not ornamental, nor symbolic alone. It would be a living weapon, one that reflected the Empress not merely in power, but in domain. Srina Talon did not command flame. She didn't bend storm or shadow. She ruled winter.

Deep within the laboratories of the Sith Citadel on Dromund Kaas, the Dark Lord began the process. Ancient templates were excavated from forbidden archives, fragments of prehistoric leviathans long extinct, their fossilized marrow still whispering of primordial fury. These templates were reconstructed through gene-splicing rites, reinforced with Sith bio-arcane sequencing that prevented degeneration under extreme cryogenic stress. The first generation failed.

Cryo-glands expanded too rapidly, flash-freezing circulatory systems from within. Several early constructs crystallized mid-maturation, shattering from internal ice expansion. Others grew scales too dense, too brittle, their own armor fracturing as they attempted to move. The Shadow Hand didn't relent. He refined the vascular lattice. He redesigned the crystalline scale layering to allow thermal flexion. He introduced a metabolically regulated cryogenic gland network, a controlled, cycling system capable of producing hyper-cooled alchemical compounds without catastrophic rupture. He tested muscle density against gravitic compression chambers. He forced its wing structures to endure vacuum exposure and atmospheric turbulence simulations. He exposed prototypes to plasma bursts to measure frost retention stability.

Each failure was dissected. Each flaw corrected. Then came the final convergence. When Zaldrakaar first drew breath within, the air itself recoiled. Frost erupted outward in spiraling waves, racing across obsidian floors and climbing the walls like living lace. Ice formed across armored acolytes' gauntlets before they could retreat. The chamber temperature plummeted violently. His first roar didn't merely echo in the halls, it cracked. The ice coating the walls splintered into crystalline shards that fell like snow. The Dark Lord stood unmoving as the creature unfurled his wings, frost shedding in sheets from their membranes. Metabolic stabilization held. Scale integrity held. Cryo-gland regulation held. Zaldrakaar lived. But creation was only half the design. Through alchemical attunement rites performed under starlight, the Shadow Hand imprinted a singular resonance within the beast's developing psyche, a bond key. That key was tuned not to himself, but to the Sith Empress Srina Talon.

When Srina Talon first approached him, the dragon didn't roar. He lowered his head. The bond took root in silence. Zaldrakaar was not made to terrorize worlds alone. He was crafted as companion and counterpart, a living manifestation of winter's sovereignty. Where she walked, frost would follow. Where she rode, the battlefield would freeze beneath her will. He was engineered to endure prolonged campaigns, to carry armored weight without structural compromise, to descend into war as avalanche incarnate. There will be no second specimen. No breeding line. No replication. Zaldrakaar exists as singular testament to the Shadow Hand's mastery, and as a personal gift forged not from sentiment, but from conquest, discipline, and precision.

He is winter given wings.