Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Orbs of Dragonkind

These 12 ancient artifacts have an origin shrouded in mystery, but wherever your characters find them, the fate of nations can hang in the balance and the keen attention of very powerful forces will be focused on their activities.
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[@Hoovt]

1:06 artikel orbs of dragonkind 2:10 in the beginning 3:29 human version 6:16 elves version 7:42 dwarves version 12:10 book version and applications 17:11 description 20:23 the 12 orbs 28:07 age 28:51 personalities

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

nice

[@osamasllamas6389]

The fact you pinned this shows you care about your fan base.

[@DCdabest]

"Finally Edwin! I have translated the writing on the Orb!" "What does it say?" ".....'This Side Up; Batteries Not Included'..."

[@flibbernodgets7018]

"Unsurprisingly, an orb of red dragonkind 'snows' when you shake it..." - Nodwick

[@goolabbolshevish1t651]

Should have a bunch of tiny people inside Rick and Morty style

[@HumbleMemeFarmer]

Of course the elves remember it like that. Lying knife-ears.

[@TarsonTalon]

Dungeon and Dragons Lore: "Nobody knows who's right about the beginning of the world, as every race has a different story..." Me: "The Old Ones." "What?!" "YOU HEARD ME. NOBODY IS TELLING TRUTH, BECAUSE IF PEOPLE KNEW THE TRUTH, THEY'D GO MAD!!!" "Yo, chill!" "Merely mentioning them by name risks their return to power! WE ARE DOOMED!!!" "Yo, dog, just have a Snickers! Better?" "Yes. Now...ROLL FOR INITIATIVE! CTHULHU IS COMIN' FOR YA!" "THAT'S NOT BETTER! THAT IS NOT BETTER!"

[@WrathMilten]

The dwarf king created racism as his revenge

[@Dr.Hypo101]

It was super effective

[@theredneckunicorn9752]

This orb has a special place in my heart. This was the first module I played, DM'd by my dad when I was 12. We were stopping Bonegnasher the Ogre. 2nd edition game. Gosh the memory.

[@ghost-dc4ll]

As a player I've never got to see them as a dm my players never touched them lol.

[@theredneckunicorn9752]

@@ghost-dc4ll this was a module, we called them "pre-made games" at the time. It came with 6 premade characters, shortened versions of the books (DMG had the module info) dice, plastic figurines, 2 maps and a CD to play sounds of the game. I was a human fighter named Beldar the Brave. According to the story, the high wizard payed us to stop Bonegnasher the ogre from finding this orb that was in a crypt of an ancient king. That was game 1 of the set and we were level one. This module did not pull any fucking punches.

[@victorvaldez8869]

Campaign Idea: A Mind Flayer Hive wants to get a hold of the orbs. If put into the tank of the Elder Brain the Brain would be able to use the Orbs collected powers via any of his Mind Flayer brood & just use it's Psychic Abilities to brain wash the orbs into compliance. Then it's a McGiffin Race to keep the Orbs out of the Illithid's tentacles.

[@danchase7454]

I feel bad for the depressed dragon. Might try a campaign where a bunch of good aligned characters try to free him. Will try to find out if they were trapped because they did something evil or were tricked themselves. Maybe the dragons too have a version of that story.

[@ryanlaurie8733]

Right The human story is one of humility. The elves and dwarves of hubris.

[@TheBottegaChannel]

All 12 dragons after being released: You mean all this time we've been stuck in those orbs, and we could have just released ourselves with a frigging KNOCK spell?!!!!!!!! Artificer: * rolls eyes* wouldn't that have been the first thing you would have tried? Seriously, no account for proper ettiquette......

[@TarsonTalon]

Bard: *Kicks door in Artificer: "BARD NO!" DM: "BARD NO!" Entire Table: "BARD NO!" Bard: "BARD YES! I ROLL TO SEDUCE THIS HAREM OF DRAGONS!" Entire Table: "Noooo!" Bard: *Rolls a natural 1 Artificer: "Oh thank goodness..." Bard: "And I use my luck bonus as a halfling to re-roll it. Oh look, it's a NATURAL 20!" DM: "The dragons torch, freeze, electrocute, gas, acid drench, drown, plague, spell cast, and whatever other breath attack I have not taken the time to figure out, you to DEATH!" Bard: "That's not fair! Why would they ever do that? My charisma is INFINITY!" DM: "That's just it. As a console of dragons, they decided unanimously, that if none of them could have you to themselves first, NO ONE WOULD!" Bard: "Aw...heh, giggiddy!" Entire Table: *Face palm

[@cageygolem]

I'm working on a campaign where all the players are ancient dragons who had to take the form of humanoids and erase their memories to avoid a curse and this is gay me some massive inspiration on the quest to regain their draconic selves

[@Doomseer]

Awe I'd set the naive dragon free as soon as I could and if need be spend every coin I have and put my character's very life on the line to see it done. Then once freed I'd work with the dragon to place enchantments on it so it could never again be forced back into that living hell..

[@williamozier918]

I always ran it that Orbs of Dragonkind were in fact unfertilized dragon eggs.

[@dracosdiabolis1769]

a youngling hatchling cuddling with its parent, "Where do we come from? How did we get here?" its asks. "That is a long story surrounded by mystery and secrets child." the parent replied with a smile. "Now off to bed with you." "Would you tell me the story of how we came to me?" its eyes light up in excitement. "Lord Io, help me...…. Yes child." tucking the little one in with its already sleeping clutch of brothers and sisters. "Always the curious one" "Io the god of all dragons. The seer of things that were and things to be...….." the Child asks "Why are we starting here?" "Because it is the beginning child." "He saw what his children were becoming. far from what he wanting for all his children. So like any parent. He has to teach his children a lesson in humility. He used Moradins anvil to forge out 12 souls, 12 Protectors as he called them. To protect the humanoids from the tyranny of what the dragons had become. As for the lesson in humility. He also crafted many orbs. He sends the 12 out to deal with his troublesome children with the orbs." "What happed" the clutch of children ask enthralled with the story at this point. (Sign) "The 12 Protectors gave the power to the people that had none by trapping the souls from dragons inside the orbs." the parent said, with a distant and sad look as if remembering the events. "...…...And gave those orbs to the people to safeguard. For as long as those orbs exist. Dragons can be controlled." ending with a smile. "Can we be controlled like that? Against our will?" one asked with fear in its voice. "No child. What was done, had to me done because the little human like races have a very undetermined future. And Io wants to see it play it out." the children all nod in understanding of the story. the parent finishes "We Steel Dragons are descendants of those 12 Protectors, To help the little human like creatures become whatever they will. Its why Io has blessed us with our special gifts. To become like them, To live amongst them. Who do you think told those storys about how the orbs were created to the humans, the elves, dwarves, and the like? Hmmmm"? "Good Night Children"

[@OmusKnowsAll]

Ah Dragonlance, first fantasy series I ever read. Highly recommend to new fantasy readers.

[@mountainking1166]

What if all the Dragon Orbs are actually just fragments of the one true dragon? Not a god per se, but along the same power level. Every dragon type covets its respective color orb for...ressons. Unbeknowest to all but the most ancient dragons, if all orbs are found, a ritual could be performed to enable a sufficiently powered dragon to "mantle" the One True Dragon and gain supreme power. Just a fun thought to play with.

[@anthonyalexander8886]

Only if his name is Shinron.

[@kingmasterlord]

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[@st4ne4rmthevill63]

The Dwarven story just gave me a campaign idea. Have the Players be Monster Slayers & Dragon Hunters that slowly learn this & have to decide whether to keep killing or restore the honor to dragons by reuniting them with the orbs & helping lift the curse or kill the dragons & take the orbs & treasure for themselves. The latter would then warp them like the dragons into mad warlords where they eventually become the BBEG & an NPC party of heroes comes to kill them.

[@JayLeePoe]

_That Time I Was Resurrected As A Slime_ essentially uses this as a subtext device for all the stories that follow

[@dragon200ism]

I used the dragon orbs in my pathfinder setting to create a new draconic god.

[@thehillz726]

How?

[@dragon200ism]

@@thehillz726 my mythic character (a aasimar dragon blooded arcanist) already had the Divine mythic path ability so was for all intents and purposes was already a demigod that could grant spells to worshipers. We then went on a series of huge quests find all the orbs including the lesser orbs. After the quests we were extremely wealthy and powerful (extra bonus feats and even a couple extra mythic abilities for story and good RP) including becoming the sovereign of a new nation. We gathered them all together on an remote island to not be disturbed and with multiple mythic empowered rituals and spells i had the souls released into the care of Apsu( a LG dragon God) while draining the majority of there power. This fully ascended my character into CR 30 demigod. I technically could have apotheosised into a true God, but demigods are allowed to be more hands on in the world so she stayed empress. She still hasn't fully ascended and we have her show up in other quests sometimes when we play in that world. And her clerics and evangelist are now an established part of the world and we get help from them on occasion.

[@thehillz726]

@@dragon200ism that's awesome!!

[@dragon200ism]

@@thehillz726 hell its been awhile but I could probably dig up her deity portfolio i have written up in some folder in the cabinet somewhere if you ever need a new deity in your game I'm sure I could post it here or in a Gdoc. Me and my old buddies can't really get together anymore so I'd love to know she's getting love somewhere.

[@thehillz726]

@@dragon200ism I'd love to use a deity like that.. When I can play lol. Pls post

[@foleylione]

I like to mix all the histories together. The elves made the crystals, the dwarves added the improvements and the human showed up just in time to see what happened and took them all back to the kingdom.

[@jakepurnell8640]

We are doing something similar in our campaign, the campaign is a wandering mage wants to bring back tiamat. To bring back Tiamat he needs Violium (extremely rare material) with a dragons soul inside of it. So far we (the party) have 2 acidic and frosted violium. We recently killed a Adult red dragon to which my patron struck a deal with the party in order to take its soul in return of a gift.

[@Zasek2112]

I propose that the illithid created the orbs very near the end of time in a series of experiment to create their own crystal sphere's searching for a way to escape reality much like the obyrith once did but they accidentally destroy the universe in the process forcing them to time travel back to the beginning just to give themselves more time, in doing so much of their civilisation and knowledge is lost and the orbs are scattered throughout creation. I still need some time to flesh out this idea tho and see if it works. Surely the illithid at least have their own myths about the orbs.

[@StraboSE]

That sounds like a campaign hook, great idea.

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

wow mind blown

[@That80sGuy1972]

Nice one, AJ! It's been a LONG time, but I think I used one of these only once. It was an orb the leader of a Kobold army wore around his neck. It mutated him into being what looks like a 20' tall Kobold-Green Dragon hybrid. He was possessed by the spirit of the ancient green dragon in the orb and except for his looks and size, he was an ancient green dragon. He had a bunch of abilities for himself as well as empowered all his allies on the battlefield. The Kobold army had Green Dragon allies that were more compelled to serve than actual allies. It was 2nd Ed. Could that have been an Orb of Dragonkind? I got it from one of my friend's source materials. It was at the high-level part of my campaign and the first time in a long time the group feared/respected Kobolds.

[@AJPickett]

Hmmm, could have been.

[@maggintons]

Dragon's are aware of the surroundings in the orb... I now have a terrible idea for an orb with a dragon traumatized after a thief tried to hide said orb up there ass.

[@anthonyalexander8886]

I'm sure these dragons are *already* traumatized. How would you like to be stuck inside a glass ball for centuries?

[@Purple.mind...Honored.one.]

Thank you AJ, this is going to help me a whole bunch when the characters in my campaign start heading to the other main landmass, in a way this kind of reminds me of the eldunary from the inheritance series, this actually works for being able to fit in with the lore of dragons and the kingkiller star and everything like that, I have a continent of giants and one of many sentient monster races, that used to be under the dragon's claw, until the elves had something to say about, but you gave me the brilliant idea of the only dragons who were not affected by the dragon rage mithos, was the 12 trapped in the Crystal spheres, as a result some of the more powerful individual dragons attempted to turn themselves into that form to escape the rage...... And hell anyone go ahead and steal this concept it's just fun, ( specifically the magic loophole, make your own world)

[@AnEnemySpy456]

The orbs in the 3.5 DMG are quite a bit different than this. In that edition, there are ten orbs, each corresponding to a different color of dragon.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, I thought it would interest folks to see what the original versions were like, directly from the book, without the usual blending together of the editions to give a more complete version of the lore.

[@JAY-gl5xd]

Long ago, during AD&D Paladin: Finally, we have collected all 12 orbs of dragonkind. Now to command them all to fight against the hordes of the Abyss to save the multiverse from entropy and inevitable destruction!!!! Bard: I bet you 10 gold I can juggle all of them. Paladin: You cannot juggle 12 orbs. Do not try. Bard: that's 8, that's 9, that's 10... Oops!! oops again. That's 10 orbs still in the air. Well Paladin, looks like we were both right.

[@edsapp6678]

Find all the orbs and summon tiamat and the good counter part for the final battle of good vs evil

[@royriley6282]

official book entries

[@AJPickett]

Accurate.

[@jima6545]

Long time campaign idea of mine since 1st edition. Artifacts were much more interesting then. The Orbs we're geared towards age categories then. Came here for research for my Magnus Opus

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Ahh...the seven dragon balls. What?? What do you mean there’s twelve? What? Orbs?? I think I’m in the wrong setting...

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Piercer and Roper-------"Whats all this rot Master Pickett?" "Thats NOT how the bloody story goes at all!"..........Heres the REAL tale of how those wonderous globes came into the world............"and yes"....."WE had a part in this awesome tale!"

[@AJPickett]

Heh!

[@DCdabest]

Haha Ah Piercer amd Roper. Those two clowns crack me up.

[@Andonios88]

New AJ vidya, almost done with work for the week and this is a Good way to get through it.

[@draxthemsklonst]

Almost thought you said vaati vidya.

[@thepopemichael]

I've used these sorta like Dragon Balls from Dragon Ball Z. The main difference is that the individual balls have powers, but when "all" of them are together... and the world needs altering, then the world alters. After the "world altering" or whatever is use is done, the orbs have a tendency to disappear or fly off (on a 1 on a 1d4 or some such per day)

[@arnoldpolymer1979]

Thank you, AJ. Your KZbin content has made me a better Dungeon Master.

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

I like how all of the cultures stories about the diminishing of the dragons completely lack any mention of the Giants. Wasn’t there a significant period of Toril’s history where it was basically just Dragons vs Giants?

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

Wouldn't be surprised if humans used to be giants at some point. Not to mention how history seems to be in flux in the Forgotten Realms.

[@tatsusama3192]

This is an insanely cool concept. Everything about it🤩 I loved the origin stories that differed depending on the race. I personally like the Dwarven lore the most in this instance. Kind of a Tower of Babble type punishment. I love that each orb has a specific personality as well. Too many things to say about this subject. It's all good😀 Ps. If I were the DM I'd come up with a personality for each orb that fit each color of dragon. Going with the Dwarven lore, each orb would have the personality of the very first (insert color or metal) dragon of their kind Pps. Nvm, the set personalities were listed after I made the above comment😋

[@backroomgaming3305]

Thanks again for a great plot device

[@nullvoid4063]

Well done AJ. I have a homebrew campaign that I’ve been working on centered on a post apocalyptic world revenged by chromatic dragons. This video gives me some new ideas. Thanks AJ!

[@stevenpeterson8582]

If you collect all of the Dragon Orbs, you are granted an epic wish. But you might have to face Saiyans and other god-like aliens in your quest for them.

[@kingmasterlord]

bring aasimar sun soul monks and warforged armorer artificers with your golems, trolls, and animated bone titans then. also be abberant mind sorcerer with Fighting Initiate (Unarmed) and know pact of tome warlock-scribe wizard

[@tzisorey]

"The mad personality" ...Am I the only one who'd love to see a The Joker dragon, now?

[@st4ne4rmthevill63]

I think they did that in Dark Knight Metal

[@tzisorey]

@@st4ne4rmthevill63 I vaguely have a mental image of it - but I'm not sure if it's canon, fanon, or pure imagination.

[@anathema1828]

Whoa- these are insane artifacts!

[@geoleo965]

Not THOSE orbs, mind you...

[@honpolyo]

my kobold character: BIG TOUCH turned into dragon* "oh noooo, i dropped iiiit. sorry scro, sucks to suck now you'll never get oooouuuut." "guess I'll just have to live with this partially fulfilled "curse" forever now, daaannggg it."

[@Taylor1989s]

These are some of my artifacts to use I one day want to run a campaign revolving around collecting all of the to get rid of Tiamat or other massively powerful dragon.

[@torbjornlekberg7756]

The human explanation does not really exclude either of the elven or dwarven stories. It says nothing of how they orbs were made, just what happened after.

[@Maljurok]

"Any one of these stories might be true, or perhaps none of them..." What if they were...ALL TRUE?....

[@TheLordUrban]

Maljurok Or at least each was partially true.

[@TheBottegaChannel]

Funny things happen due to linguistic drift, translational errors, morphology from root entomology and unhealthy doses of pride mixed with hubris. I'm of the mindset that many of the core elements of each story are true, just chronologically out of synch and mis translated as a whole from their root dialects. That sometimes happens though with oratory history that then gets transcribed to Tomes then re updated into modern languages...

[@Jawn15]

I had one once.

[@conjurekween1627]

Omg yes! I just finished all the Dragonlance books, raistlin is such an amazing character even in the legends

[@DnDnBeer]

I have the Book of Artifacts on order. Looking forward to its arrival.

[@AdamBoozer]

Lol. That swine herder. "Fuck no, I'm not messing with that!" Six days later. "What did you say?!"

[@henryboard317]

Hear me out......A lich right, he splits his soul into 12 peices and switches it with the dragons/makes the dragon orbs their phalactory.......

[@el3g3le]

What if one was already in use by a dracolich?

[@gigatwin5298]

@@el3g3le then the Dracoliche now has a new roommate that he gets to complain too about pesky mortals messing up his plans

[@draxthemsklonst]

A dragon's soul is mighty. A single being having 12 of them seems very difficult to maintain. That's 12 strong egos, all competing for dominance of the body (and that's if the body can even handle them).

[@Lurklen]

Hey AJ thanks for putting the artist's name up when the art appears!

[@jeroenvanwees3250]

If you collect all the Dragonorbs, you're granted a wish by one of those serpentine asian dragons! Oh wait, that are the Dragonballs, my mistake...

[@draxthemsklonst]

It does make since that a powerful dragon would offer such a deal for those that could accomplish it. It really does fit rather seamlessly.

[@mikemccoy5092]

Sweet new artifacts video

[@virusghost18]

Could we get more information about the artifact you mentioned? The Millstone of the Gods? I feel like I've heard of it from somewhere but I'm having trouble finding any information on it.

[@AJPickett]

roger roger.

[@Ghastly_Grinner]

I really like the Dwarves point of view

[@cobblegen1204]

Problem with the dwarves’ point of view is that they cursed the dragons by removing their good traits, which virtually guaranteed that they would never willingly be repaid.

[@reifuTD]

Well I found this very helpful in that I have thought about a concept of a setting with Beholders infused with dragon powers with one Beholderkin for every dragon each one reign over an area where that dragon type like to live. I like the powers of these Ords and think they could work with these special Beholders .

[@willferrellssweetnips]

Hey AJ just wanted to say thanks for the consistent quality of your content. Hope things are going well on your side of the world. Cheers, man.

[@AJPickett]

Steady as she goes, things are ticking along nicely, thanks Will Ferrel's Sweet Nips. 😎

[@animorph17]

Considering the fact there is another world ruled by dragons, one that the gods are silent on even, AND the fact that there are multiple orbs ... it really feels like each of these stories could be true simultaneously, and each is just the creation of one of the orbs. The dwarven myth actually has solid evidence behind it though. Seeing as they are objectively the best at crafting things, and they still hate dragons to this day.

[@SageofCancer]

I have it on good authority there are also seven dragon balls that you can collect and use to cast Wish.

[@thehillz726]

Could there be variants for planar dragons ? Like the solar, lunar or Stellar dragon ??

[@AJPickett]

Absolutely.

[@ASquared544]

Oooh, they could be mixed between Aberrations and Dragons. I may just homebrew that into 5e

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

There are 5 planar dragon types in the pathfinder Bestiary 6 if you are interested.

[@thehillz726]

@@Batman_the_bad_man please share with the class

[@dragon200ism]

They did that in pathfinder giving all true dragons an associated orb as well as lesser orbs for lesser dragons like wyverns and pseudo dragons.

[@fishinatube9028]

Nothing is impossible if it makes a cool enough campaign.

[@adamwelch2837]

truth preach!

[@ruhalajn]

Dwarf story is the best. Didn't know about these, thanks again.

[@marcosreed9894]

I have been working on a long-term campaign in my/our homebrew game and much of this video helps my concept and story. Thank you for the video.

[@Orionhunter4444]

Gave me a nice idea for a campaign, party is hired/tasked to find an orb, by the king/evil lord/great wizard, they find orb and it try's to influence party overthrow/kill/betray quest giver.

[@kenyonelliott2628]

Red, Black, Green, White, Blue, Gold, Silver, Brass, Bronze, Copper. What are the other 2?

[@AJPickett]

Good question

[@ThePridefulsoul]

Astral, fey, negative , radiant really depends on the settings like wild cards

[@boarstreamgaming8240]

I used one as a "bahamut" and "Tiamat" orb. Not there true self obviously but tied to the two. The player a paladin of bahamut found a Tiamat Orb, it constantly tries to pull the Paladin off his path.

[@AnEnemySpy456]

Nice. I'm using the Orbs of Dragonkind as the main McGuffin in my current campaign.

[@AJPickett]

Let me know how it works out! :D

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

Thought you could sneak one by on me and I wouldn’t notice?! Too bad AJ, I found it!

[@StevetheSteve01]

I challenge the idea of keeping it limited to one or two. I think there's the potential for some really cool high level hijinx with many orbs in play on a large scale. What if consolidating them in one place is Cosmically a really bad idea, and it falls to the PCs to keep them from being collected? Finding suitable caretakers or hiding places could fuel a high level campaign indefinitely! There's no shortage of Demon Lords, Ancient Dragons, Doomsdays Cults, wannabe gods, and Powerful Liches who would want to mess with your plans.

[@OmusKnowsAll]

That sounds like a really cool campaign idea! "He that lay claim to the mightiest orb shall command the greatest of dragons. And his power, most terrible and supreme, will be ordained by power to determine the fate of the realm."

[@schoolofmetaphysicspalatin331]

we love your stuff man! Way to create something truly worthwhile! And so productive too =D

[@AJPickett]

Thank you 😊

[@odenetheus]

Bruhv, you actually really listened! I'm so grateful

[@AJPickett]

😊 thanks!

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

DRAGONLANCE! DRAGONLANCE!

[@mytzyxptlyx]

Fing Glorious That dwarven legend sounds familiar.

[@sagesheahan6732]

Possibility: The Orbs of Dragonkind are in fact a number of the 333 jeweled or gem keys needed to unlock and awaken the greatest threat to all the multiverse and existence, the sleeping overgod of entropy? That being said, what if there are more than 12 orbs? I mean, cloud and shadow dragon orbs? Those dragons are not metallic, nor chromatic in type. Which gets me thinking. Where are the Gem or Lung or other orbs of dragonkind? Mercury dragons? Purple dragons? Mist and Astral dragons? Than we get into.. if all types of dragon had an orb corellating to their type... and they were ALL keys.... Itd make some sense. Though, one could argue, the event that necessitated the creation of the keys pre-dated the arrival of dragons, thus removing this whole idea. If I remember correctly, dragons came after the dawn war and the creation of the Abyss and that whole mess. Sssooo, maybe. But its an idea to toy with for a campaign. Maybe the dragons we know today were actually created around the time and during the Dawn War? Who's to say?

[@jeroenvanwees3250]

Over here it's 90 minutes till my birthday, but in New Zealand times ahead, so thank you for this gift! :D Besides, some cool info about dragon-artefects, is exactly what i wished for!

[@daverhoden445]

Well Happy Birthday. :)

[@jeroenvanwees3250]

@@daverhoden445 Thenk you :)

[@GRIMJAW112796]

THE ZEITGEIST IS REAL!!! Just two days ago I got curious to the book of artifacts and looked into the Orbs of Dragon Kind, and was prepping a list to ask on the next livestream if you would do a video on them!

[@GRIMJAW112796]

I was literally talking to my girlfriend about them and how I thought my idea of something similar in my Homebrew world was special. But nope, she solidly believes that my mind is exactly as the old guys who made D&D back in the 70's and 80's.

[@zacharygadzinski3147]

So the spirts in the orbs could possess people and turn them into dragons. So keep away at all costs. Especially dragonborn and half dragons, since they would be the easiest to fully transform into a dragon. *Forgets about random person who makes a pact with one of the orbs or an actual dragon.* So when did this person become a draconian warlock? *Adventurers inadvertently cause the rise of draconic warlocks and another war between dragons and giants as some humans begin growing bigger than normal.*

[@lorekeeper685]

22:30 ah good old quest spells. imago intragation still goes trough barriars of time and planes? storm of vengance was also a quest spell back since it was decstructive.

[@archam777]

Totally going to put all twelve in my campaign..........BUT theyre going into arti-furnaces to power spelljammer ships(along with 3 other artifacts) to make a fleet of 15 arti-furnace powered spelljammers, in an attempt to stop Atropus from coming to Toril and ending the world. Making it so regular spelljammers get w/in a certain distance, the helm stops working if piloted by a living being, so alternate power source is needed. Thought it would be EPIC to have 15 artifacts in a campaign, but if the players try to take them for themselves, it will literally doom all existence 🤣😁 Don't know exactly how theyre gonna stop Atropus yet...........maybe a ton of elven High magic(ritual casting) creating a sort of Mythal around Atropus, but it keeps everything in?? OR A ritually cast "supergate" that sends it to the abyss, or Carceri, or the positive energy plane.......SO MANY OPTIONS!!!! Whatever it comes down too, the "final fight" will be buying enough time with the fleet of arti-furnace powered spelljammers(DISTRACTION!!!!), while the ritual spell is completed, and saving the entirety of Toril. The thought of 15 artifact powered ships, which can invoke some(not all) of those artifacts powers (decimating wave after wave of undead) buying enough time to complete the spell that LITERALLY saves all of Realmspace............ITS GONNA BE EPIC!!!!!! Still in the beginning of it though, theyre just now meeting their 1st spelljammer captain, after their current quest is finished. Probable 4-6 story arcs just to track down everything needed for the culmination to happen in the 1st place. Thought it would be particularly "insert whatever descriptor you think best" of me to have the party with 15 artifacts they must quest for/have at their fingertips, the entire story........BUT, not have full access to, unless they want EVERYTHING to die!! Teehehe 😂🤣😁 Thank you Mr. Pickett, good upload!!

[@brent8994]

Great video!

[@beastwarsFTW]

It would be interesting of a dracolich was the lover of a dragon imprisoned in one of the orbs.

[@thegamerfromskyrim]

I really like the idea you have for the item rather then whats in the books for 5e,

[@Elfos64]

Can dragon orbs be used as like a power source for constructs?

[@AJPickett]

That sounds like fun, so, sure!

[@thehillz726]

The dragon in the orb would probably pilot it like a mech if they're not attuned to anything

[@sagesheahan6732]

@@thehillz726 put it in a warforged to power it, and it acts all schizophrenic between the warforged and the dragons personalities? That'd be hysterical.

[@rev.aux-weg9730]

Hey hey, a virus free salut from germany.

[@3dagalathor]

ohh a dragonballs video

[@dragonballtalk8527]

Any aj like channels because I can't find any because aj is best

[@secretname2670]

Book of choyer is better, same with Mr Rhexx , you can also try neckbeardia if you really need something on AJ level

[@dragonballtalk8527]

We need more ecology and places videos in non storytime format

[@arichaast8585]

I would say there's a orb of each dragon type from true to epic+

[@chriscalvin5083]

Great video AJ

[@SlothinAintEasy]

This a dragon ball situation? All gather together summons bahamut and tiamat?

[@AJPickett]

Summons an aspect of Io. 🤯

[@krgood9008]

An orb of dragonkind, the dragon inside is Mad and suffers from an identity crisis. I believes it is a Genie it uses the wish spell and curses to grant it’s user wishes. Keep the fact that it is the wish spell secret. The orb only obeys if it’s master goes along with whatever delusion the orb is suffering at the time.

[@Greenscyth22]

Sounds like Bricktop was right, beware of any man who owns a pig farm...especially one who has the power of the Gods on his side.

[@Dragondw11]

34:55 Not impossible. You would just need the help of a time dragon or some other magical aid.

[@AJPickett]

Ok, "extremely difficult".

[@thehangryphalangite739]

You know, what would happen if say a random storm giant kinda...put these all in an inconspicuously golden gauntlet...just a scenario

[@michaelkelligan7931]

Book of Artifacts eh? Good choice! The Orb of the Wyrmling proved most difficult to acheive in my campaigning! Lol😁

[@draxthemsklonst]

Palantiri.

[@AJPickett]

Yep

[@ghost-dc4ll]

Aj do you have a video on the creator races. I am doing a campaign I want to use them and there artifacts in but I am having hard time finding info on them and or artifacts. Any help on were to find info.

[@AJPickett]

They are on my work list

[@ghost-dc4ll]

Can't wait.

[@brightglory5734]

Dragon Orbs

[@Hedron-Design]

Good stuff here. I am currently running a campaign where dragons have log since died out and are considered legend and fiction. Much the same way we think pf them in real life. The main story line involves a mysterious power seeping into dreams and minds of mortal races and is in fact a new deity slowly coming into being in the realm. To fully manifest it will need something made of prime material matter than can contain it. Only the ancient dead dragon bodies are capable of such a gestalt. Of course a dead dragon needs a spirit to revive properly. Yeah gonna be a dragon orb involved for sure.

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

Well these remind me of the Dragon Balls but each one has a dragon breath power that is bestowed upon its current holder based on a certain type of dragon and the wielder is possibly warped and twisted into some sort of demi dragon. Now I only have one question, how large are these things? Like baseball, volleyball, beach ball, or planet sized?

[@scottmcley5111]

The big question i have is when were they likely created? Best guesses i assume are all we have. Could it be possible they were the construction of giants?

[@RaithSienar]

The book of artifacts from AD&D had 3 origin stories for them, the human one is that they were gifted by the gods to a young man who was climbing a mountain to face the dragons, the Dwarven one had the dragons commission the Dwarves for them, but betray them and take them without paying with the Dwarven king laying a curse down upon them with his dying breath that made the dragons and their kin all change colors and it inspired the greed all dragons are known for, the elven one had a minstrel play so beautifully for a court of dragons that their souls literally left their body and entered the perfect crystals that each had had clutched in their claws. Which one if any is accurate? Who's to say, but that's the mythological origins of the orbs of dragon kind. I'm also massively paraphrasing, each of these origins was like a page or so long and were very well written, AD&D didn't fuck around when it came to writing lore, they'd be very verbose if they wanted to, not like today where stuff gets maybe a paragraph at most.

[@AJPickett]

Well it must have been during the dragon civil war, so, yes, most likely giants.