Calcryx

Young white dragon. Enjoys long naps on piles of her wealth, not being caged anymore, and the sweet, sweet icy cold. Former ward of Meepo, now a strong independent wyrm. Likes: being left alone like a real adult so she can finally do some investment planning. Dislikes: all these fools massacring Draconic to impress her. Probably snacking on kobolds in the Sunken Citadel atm, idk.

Description
Female young white dragon. She used to be a lot smaller when the party first encountered her, but thanks to some shrewd meal planning and really dialing in that nutrition over the past few months she's been making impressive gains.

Background
Once upon a time, a group of kobolds acquired a baby white dragon. Whether she was hatched by the kobolds as an egg or stolen as an infant has been lost to the sands of time. Tended to by the kobolds, with her primary caregiver being Meepo, and growing up in a cage, Calcryx did not lead an enviable childhood. It all changed when a man named Durnen came and took control of the goblin colony that shared space with her kobold captors, manipulating the goblins into stealing her cage. Still property of a different group of small creatures, Calcryx enjoyed upgraded living quarters: the goblin's treasure room, where she was uncaged and free to coil around and freeze her coins as she liked.

=== "A Little Bit of Loneliness, a Little Bit of Disregard" (1x2) === The party first learned of Calcryx (then Culcris) from a weeping Meepo. The dimensions of Calcryx's cage were 8'x8', indicating that while she was not yet a Big Mac she was no Happy Meal either. Meep insisted it was important to his clan to get Calcryx back and Set, in a moment of softness, wanted to help.

"All the Ghosts that Are Never Gonna Catch Me" (1x3)
Meepo told the party what color Calcryx was (a blue, grey-white) and recounted his tale of woe, how he'd raised Calcryx and missed the dragon. The party generally seemed to think that between the cage and the rotting food that maybe Calcryx had not had the greatest of upbringings. General consensus seemed to be acquiring the dragon but not giving her back to Meepo.

"And Even Though I Tried, It All Fell Apart" (1x4)
While the party made camp outside the citadel, Set caught a lizard, intending to trick Meepo into thinking that the lizard was a new, tiny replacement dragon for Meepo to care for once the party defeated Durnen and absconded with Calcryx. Back inside the citadel, Durnen confirmed his role in forcing the goblins to steal Calcryx and also holding her for a ransom that the kobolds would never be able to pay, perhaps forcing the clan to attack the neighboring village of Greenrest for goods to meet Durnen's steep price. After round one of dispatching Durnen was concluded, Set bargained with Grennel, the goblin matriarch, for Calcryx. Greenel, rather sensibly, wanted nothing to do with her and said sure, whatever, Set, you can have the dragon.

Felegum, one of the few of members of the party who could speak Draconic, spoke to Calcryx and said she was also a teenager and kind of a dick. This did not deter him from speaking with her again, however, and further conversation revealed Calcryx's extreme desire to eat her kobold captors. Awk rolled a gold coin to her as an offering. Harry, most wisely, suggested that the party not attack her.

"With You It's Never Good Enough" (1x6)
The party discovered that Calcryx was female and got to speak to her. She had never been below to the Grove before. Negotiations this time did not go well, ultimately ending in Zeno offering her a deal of a "house to live in, kobolds to eat, treasure below...all you have to do is just stay here." Calcryx deemed these terms acceptable and the party left.

"Hold Your Head High, Heavy Heart" (1x34)
Mistakes were made. The party did not remember the terms of their agreement with Calcryx and were brought down through the citadel to the Grove with Milto in tow by her kobold army. They encountered her wound around the Tree of Life and Death's trunk in much larger form. Calcryx helpfully reminded the party of their bargain. Awk praised her growth. Zeno tried valiantly at negotiating; Calcryx horked down a kobold. After moving down to the Grove, she had continued Durnen's strategy of pressing smaller creatures into labor and farming the fertile land. Under her rule, kobolds farmed, ate the produce, and then offered themselves to be eaten by her, in service of their "master."

It really was looking very bad until Lankin spoke up, saying that the party had heard of bad, red-eyed people out to take this source of great power away from Calcryx. The party's intentions, Lankin earnestly maintained, had not been to break the deal, but rather to warn her to be wary of these outsiders. Calcryx paused and seemed to be thinking it over, until Awk cut in with perhaps his most staggering one-liner of the campaign: "actually, Great Dragon, that's a lie."

"I Make Plans to Break Plans" (1x35)
Zeno attempted to placate Calcryx by offering her the Light of Mystra. Gradually, though, peace talks deteriorated into war. Calcryx summoned ice walls and breathed cold on the party, Awk tried for the second unsuccessful time to talk a dragon off the ledge, and Zeno ultimately resorted to psychological warfare, summoning the illusion of a cage around Calcryx, which rattled her enough for one of Felegum's spells to knock her to the ground. Another complication in battle was the extremely good food that the kobold sacrifices-to-be were gorging themselves on, which snared Lankin's attention for some time. Set nearly killed Calcryx and then Calcryx nearly killed Set. Weakened, Calcryx fled beneath the Grove and the party made to escape while Milto provided them an opening through Calcryx's kobold hordes. However, on the way out, Set caught sight of a newly unburrowed Calcryx wrapped around the tree, already looking in much better health.

"My Head's Above the Rain and Roses" (1x36)
After a harrowing escape and blockading the entrance to the Sunken Citadel, the party debated between heading to Csipherus or finishing off Calcryx. The group was pretty divided.

"These Are Hard Times for Dreamers" (1x38)
Seeking out the guidance of the land, the party pursued a land spirit locals said was revitalizing over-farmed fields. While somewhat of a wild goose chase at first, the plan paid off when Awk, who had been sitting out in the field meditating at night, was given a vision. In it, he saw two paths. Down the right fork was Greenrest and Janwald turned into a frozen waste with our bodies broken apart and a battle-scarred dragon ruling with an iron fist. Down the left fork was peaceful snow falling over the desert city of Csipherus. Awk said that this was a sign we needed not to hurt Calcryx. Set said it sounded exactly like the kind of dream Awk's spectral dragon friend would send him and that it hadn't snowed in Csipherus in a hundred years. Awk stressed the peacefulness of the snow. Set envisioned Calcryx in Csipherus and did not like it one bit.

"Like Violence, You Have Me" (1x39)
Awk warned Milto that it was likely to get pretty cold in Janwald and Greenrest as Calcryx continued to grow stronger and her presence magically began to alter the landscape. He also checked in with the firbolg about whether or not Milto had told anyone about Calcryx. Milto assured Awk that he'd already been spreading tales of her far and wide via the Meat and the Slop.

Meepo
Her caregiver before his untimely death. It's unclear whether Meepo was a good caretaker or whether Calcryx hated him along with the rest of the kobolds.

Set
Just two angsty teens who want each other dead and are competing for most tragic backstory.