Drake

Drake
Rank	Lieutenant
Class	Balanced Physical
Skills	Breath Overwhelm Roar
Variations	Dragonling Drake Dragon Dragon Thrall Mature Dragon High Dragon Archdemon
Affiliation	Dragons
Appearances	Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening

Male dragons never develop into the winged monsters of myth. At most, their forelegs grow vestigial spurs where wing membrane might have been.

Once they have fully matured, males immediately seek out the lairs of adult females. When they find one, they move into her lair and spend the rest of their lives there, hunting for her and defending her young. They will aggressively defend her nest, and many would-be dragon hunters have been lost to their fiery breath and crushing blows from their tails.

—From Codex entry: Dragon

For any given high dragon, usually a dozen or so drakes live in her lair and fight among themselves for their right to mate. Drakes live only about 100 years, and often much less when the casualties of combat are considered.

Skills

Breath (Monster)

For the dog talent, see Overwhelm.

For the Spider/Bear Shape talent, see Overwhelm (ability).

For the bear (monster) ability, see Overwhelm (bear).

For the deepstalker ability, see Overwhelm (deepstalker).

For the dragon ability, see Overwhelm (dragon).

For the shriek ability, see Overwhelm (shriek).

For the spider (monster) ability, see Overwhelm (spider).

Information

A werewolf leader using Overwhelm

• This talent generates an auto-hit.
• The target is incapacitated and hit several times, each for normal attack damage from the attacker.
• It is generally activated by the AI when the target dips to 50% or less health, as this is the default tactic for creatures with Overwhelm of any type. In Awakening, enemies would use this ability even when the target is at full health.
• Can be interrupted by effects that have higher animation priority, including knockdown, paralyze, root (Pinning Shot), draining (Crushing Prison), "heavy impact" (Mighty Blow), and fear.

Used by

• Bears: Great Bear and Bereskarn
• Deepstalkers: Deepstalker leader and Deepstalker matriarch
• Children: All variations
• Dragons: Dragons and Drakes
• Dogs: Dogs and Alpha Dogs
• Sand stalkers: Sand stalker leader
• Spiders: All variations, except Spiderlings and Giant spiderlings
• Werewolves: All variations, including Swiftrunner and Gatekeeper
• Wolves: All variations, including Witherfang
• Shrieks: All variations, including Shriek (thrall)

Notes

A deepstalker leader using Overwhelm

• This ability can fail to execute properly in some cases due to obstructed line of sight.
• Overwhelm only affects humans, elves, dwarves, Qunari, hurlocks, and genlocks. All classes with Overwhelm are immune to its effect. A shapeshifted mage, Shale, and Dog are immune to Overwhelm.
• Several enemies in a group can easily chain-Overwhelm against a solo character, which may be lethal for units with little armor, and very annoying and time consuming for highly armored characters, as openings to counterattack are few, short-lived, and far between. This threat is greatest when facing a large group of Shadow werewolves, as they can Overwhelm a defenseless party member from Stealth, evading countermeasures.
• This attack cannot be countered or mitigated by Misdirection Hex, as it does not need to confirm attack result.
• Some abilities grant a target the "damage ward" effect which makes the target immune to damage. This effect completely negates Overwhelm. These abilities include Force Field, Strength of Stone, and Carapace after being upgraded by Bulwark of the Ages.
• Some modal abilities apply on the character a special effect which has higher animation priority than Overwhelm. This means the character cannot be interrupted by Overwhelm when any of these abilities is active. These abilities include Captivating Song, Unending Flurry, and Reaving Storm.

Rake

Roar (Monster)

Shred (Monster)

Slap may refer to:

• Slap (dragon), a talent used by Dragon.
• Slap (high dragon), a talent used by High dragon.

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Notes

• Wade can make armor (Wade's Drakeskin Armor and Wade's Superior Drakeskin Armor) from drake scales.
• It is possible to steal from drakes.
• It is possible to get a spare drake scale that has no use. This is done by fighting Kolgrim at Mountain Top; he will have a drake with him.
• It is possible to get a random encounter on the world map called The Low Road with a drake (ps3, ps3).
• Six are found in the Mountainside Caverns.
• There's also a drake in Silverite Mine in Awakenings.