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Peridita

Summary

Peridita 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. Her influence is tied to poisoned land, sickly Goliaths, the Twisted dragon family, possession and smoke-dragon forms, and attempts to return through the Barrier. The party killed her in Magstein with Walls of Fire, but Noxia essence flowed from her body and her final fate remains uncertain.

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.
  • Confirmed children include Lortesh, Galimma / the Peridot Queen, and Willowispa, all fathered by Infestus; and children with Lortesh including Inqueshvash, Emeredge / Emmeredge, Lapis, Heady, and Plague.
  • Dragon titles record Peridita as green, The Choking Death, The whispers in the dark, and Mother of many.
  • Day 26 says Peridita’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; user clarification identifies Peridita as the cause of the Azureside poisoned land and the sickly Goliaths, with Noxia as a possible but unconfirmed component.
  • Day 41 names Peridita 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 Peridita’s parents and built a city on their bones; Peridita later headed toward Hartwall and vanished there after Bridged agreed to help free her if the party agreed to release Valentinhide under the god rule.
  • Galimma, the Peridot Queen, is Peridita and Infestus’ daughter. Her dragon-family information preserves Peridita’s children or related dragons with uncertain names and locations. Emeredge is one of the Twisted and a son of Lortesh and Peridita; Lapis, Heady, and Plague are also children of Lortesh and Peridita. Willowispa is the same dragon as Willowispa / Willowispa and is Peridita’s daughter by Infestus. Verdigrim is Lortesh’s son and the prisoner later connected to the Tarnished; the Tarnished are Verdigrim’s copper-goliath / dragonborn offspring.
  • Day 43 says Lady Kalissa Hartwall and Icefang both assaulted Peridita, Icefang was starting to lose his mind, and Peridita later appeared bedraggled outside the Barrier wanting flesh-crafting wands and intending to get back in.
  • Day 47 shows Peridita 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 Peridita told him to kill them and promised to leave his people alone.
  • Day 53 makes Peridita an urgent dwarven-city threat: Anya Blakedurn says Peridita is trying to get back into the dome through the city, and Peridita claims goliath suffering was tribute to Noxia.
  • Day 55 records Peridita 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 Peridita had old unhealed wounds and 7,000 gp in belly-scale coins.

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 Galimma, Peridita, or another related green/peridot dragon figure?
  • Are the black smoke dragon, the toothless/no-lip dragon, and the dream mother aspects of Peridita, relatives, or separate dragon forces?
  • Was Noxia part of how Peridita poisoned the land and Goliaths at Azureside?
  • What does freeing Peridita require from Bridged, and what does releasing Valentinhide under the god rule cost?
  • Why does Peridita want flesh-crafting wands?
  • Why did Peridita pressure Verdigrim to kill the party, and what would she stop doing if he obeyed?
  • What remains of Peridita after the Day 55 death, Noxia essence release, and retained ooze barrel?
  • What was the tower-blood experiment Geldrin sensed after Peridita died?