In this sphere, bright light becomes dim light, and dim light becomes darkness. Shadow spreads from a point the dragon chooses within 60 feet of it, filling a 15-foot-radius sphere until the dragon dismisses it as an action, uses this lair action again, or dies.
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects the dragon can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Throughout the lair complex, the twisted remains of fallen souls from the Shadowfell roam - these Grasping Shadows desperately seek to drag the living into the darkness with them. They rarely leave their lairs, except under cover of darkest night, as they find the lights of the outside world abhorrent - indeed, they are weaker in bright light than they are in darkness. Shadow dragons lair in forlorn places and the deep gloom of subterranean caverns, often near portals to the Shadowfell, where their corrupting transformation took place. However, when the dark wizard Halaster's experiments with the Shadow Weave opened up portals to the Shadowfell throughout Undermountain, one also appeared in the Vault, catching Aurinax while he slept and transforming him into the monster that he is today. The shadow dragon beneath the Brandath crypt was once a gold dragon named Aurinax, tasked with keeping Dagult Neverember's embezzled treasure safe along with the Dragonstaff that maintains Ahgairon's dragonward around the city. As months and years pass for a dragon on the Shadowfell, it becomes aware of the transformation being wrought upon it, and yet can do nothing to prevent it. The longer a creature remains on the Shadowfell, the more it accepts the plane's malaise. Its leathery wings become translucent, its eyes paling to pools of opalescent gray.
The transformation to a shadow dragon happens over a period of years, during which time a dragon's scales lose their luster and fade to a charcoal hue. Shadow dragons are true dragons that were either born in the Shadowfell or transformed by years spent within its dismal confines.
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