Peridita

Summary

Peridita, also written Perodita or Perodetta, is a green dragon figure called The Choking Death, The whispers in the dark, and Mother of many. She is the ex-wife of Infestus, and Lortesh is both her son with Infestus and her husband.

Known Details

• Day 25 names Peridita in connection with warnings about dragons plotting, the Terror of the Sands, and the mother of many.
• Peridita is Infestus’ ex-wife.
• Lortesh is Peridita and Infestus’ son, and also Peridita’s husband.
• Dragon titles record Peridita as green, The Choking Death, The whispers in the dark, and Mother of many.
• Day 26 says Perodita’s new mate was Lortesh, also her son, called The Twisted.
• Azureside records tied Green Dragons to the destruction of the Goliaths and lack of contact for about 900 years.
• On Day 35, Morgana’s attempt to wake Elementarium with a kiss produced a vision of a laughing female dragon, possibly the Peridot Queen; this is preserved here as a possibly related but unconfirmed green/peridot dragon clue.
• Day 40 records Azureside plagued earth that Morgana connected to the Poison Dragon, a female scorpion-tail and snake-head monstrosity over the lake, and dragon payment demands involving a dark-smoke dragon and a two-headed dragon; these are not confirmed as Peridita.
• Day 41 names Perodita in the context of a thirty-foot beautiful green-scaled smoke dragon that possessed people, declared all Pacts off, called itself the choking death and the mother of many, threatened every town, and had about a ten-mile influence range.
• Day 42 council history said the Goliath Empire killed Perodita’s parents and built a city on their bones; Perodita later headed toward Hartwall and vanished there after Bridged agreed to help free her if the party agreed to release Valentenhide under the god rule.
• Galimma’s dragon-family information preserves Perodita’s children or related dragons with uncertain names and locations.
• Day 43 says Lady Elissa Hartwall and Icefang both assaulted Perodita, Icefang was starting to lose his mind, and Perodita later appeared bedraggled outside the Barrier wanting flesh-crafting wands and intending to get back in.
• Day 47 shows Perodita in Geldrin’s spellbook as a massive dragon with a scorpion-stinger tail and more insect-like wings, sitting atop Grand Towers and looking into the upper windows.
• Day 48 reveals Verdigrim originally invited the party because Perodita told him to kill them and promised to leave his people alone.
• Day 53 makes Perodita an urgent dwarven-city threat: Anya Blakedurn says Perodita is trying to get back into the dome through the city, and Perodita claims goliath suffering was tribute to Noxia.
• Day 55 records Perodita wounded with black ichor, connected to green dragons or children fighting Wrath, then trapped in Magstein passages and killed with Walls of Fire. Noxia essence flowed out after the death, and Perodita had old unhealed wounds and 7,000 gp in belly-scale coins.

Related Entries

• Lortesh
• Garadul
• Infestus

Open Questions

• Is Peridita the mother from the old warning, or could that refer to Dunnen’s mage?
• How did Peridita’s split from Infestus and her relationship with Lortesh shape the Green Dragons and later dragon plots?
• Is the laughing female dragon / Peridot Queen vision connected to Peridita, or is it a separate dragon figure?
• Are Perodita, Peridita, the Poison Dragon, the black smoke dragon, the toothless/no-lip dragon, and the dream mother one being, relatives, or separate dragon forces?
• What does freeing Perodita require from Bridged, and what does releasing Valentenhide under the god rule cost?
• Why does Perodita want flesh-crafting wands?
• Why did Perodita pressure Verdigrim to kill the party, and what would she stop doing if he obeyed?
• What remains of Perodita after the Day 55 death, Noxia essence release, and retained ooze barrel?
• What was the tower-blood experiment Geldrin sensed after Perodita died?