Editing Chromatic Dragon (section)

===Yellow Dragon===
Similarly to the [[Metallic Dragon|Steel Dragon]], the Yellow Dragon is a Chromatic with a somewhat convoluted history, with different appearances in different settings and different editions.

The original Yellow Dragon appeared in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] 1st edition in the article "The Missing Dragons", for [[Dragon Magazine]] #65. Here, they shared the limelight with the Purple and Orange Dragons. Unlike them, though, the yellow dragon was characterized as a "missing Primary Chromatic", the ancestor of the Green and newly introduced Orange Dragons. Very little lore is provided for this Yellow Dragon, save that they can spit sprays of salt crystals and they favour lairs along oceanic coasts and amongst salt flats.

This version of the Yellow Dragon would be updated to 2e in the article "The Return of the Missing Dragons" in [[Dragon Magazine]] #248. Like its purple and orange counterparts, this version underwent a major lore expansion. Now known as "Salt Dragons", and with a graphic redesign from a fairly generic dragon in #65 to a more "giant snake with dragon legs" look, this 2e Yellow Dragon was characterized as a vicious, sadistic ambush hunter that dwelled in seashores, salt marshes, salt flats and inland seas. They often cooperate with [[sahuagin]] or any other race that is willing to live in the same area. They still spray blinding gouts of salt and can produce green and orange dragon offspring through crossbreeding. A new bit of lore here is that yellow dragons may be connected to a slain sister-goddess of [[Tiamat]]. It also appears in the dragon compendium.

Whilst this was going on, another form of Yellow Dragon was taking shape over in the [[Forgotten Realms]]. Debuting in the original [[Draconomicon]], the Faerunian yellow dragon is a desert-dwelling breed that clashes with the blue and brown dragons. Able to expel high-velocity, scorching hot wind laced with flesh-scouring sand, they are burrowing ambush predators, specifically favoring the antlion tactic of "dig a deep pit, lurk at the bottom, eat anything that falls in. They are hyper-territorial isolationists, refusing to tolerate each other except during the mating season. These dragons actually made it into the Monstrous Manual, alongside the brown dragon and the [[Deep Dragon]], which is something that can't be said for the Dragon Magazine chromatics.

Yellow dragons haven't been seen since the days of AD&D. Not even Monsters of Faerun, which revived the Brown Dragon, [[Deep Dragon]], [[Fang Dragon]], [[Shadow Dragon]], and Weredragon (under the name [[Song Dragon]]), brought them back.
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