High dragon

High dragon
Rank	Elite Boss
Skills	Breath Buffet Fire Spit Grab Massive Attack Roar Slap Sweep
Variations	Drake Dragon Dragonling Dragon thrall High dragon Mature dragon
Affiliation	Dragons
Appearances	Dragon Age: The Calling Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening Dragon Age II Dragon Age: The Silent Grove Dragon Age: Until We Sleep (mentioned) Heroes of Dragon Age

High dragons are fully mature adult female dragons, the rarest of all dragonkin. At the end of the Blessed Age, many in Thedas believed that all the dragons had vanished until one went on a rampage in the Frostbacks. Divine Faustine II declared the next age to be the Dragon Age. The scene of the dragon's rise also inspired Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir to lead his army into victory over the Orlesian army at River Dane.^{[citation needed]}

Behavior

High dragons hollow out massive lairs for themselves, for they need the space to house their harem of drakes as well as their eggs and the dragonlings. Living for more than a thousand years, they are seldom seen and spend most of their time sleeping and mating, living off the prey their drakes bring back.

Once every hundred years or so, the high dragon prepares for clutching by emerging from her lair and taking wing. She will fly far and wide, eating hundreds of animals, most often livestock, over the course of a few weeks and leaving smoldering devastation in her wake. She then returns to her lair to lay her eggs and will not appear in the skies again for another century.

Involvement

There are two (optional) high dragon encounters in Origins and two in Awakening. Please see the relevant quests for details.

The Urn of Sacred Ashes

Flemeth's Real Grimoire

The Lost Dragon Bones

Depths of Depravity

Dragon Age: Origins

Mountain Top

See High dragon (strategy) for details on defeating this high dragon.

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The Warden is given the option to battle a high dragon during or any time after The Urn of Sacred Ashes quest. After (optionally) battling Kolgrim and emerging onto the Mountain Top, a short cutscene of a dragon flying above the Warden is seen. The Warden can engage the dragon by using Kolgrim's Horn (PC), by hitting the gong seen shortly after emerging on the Mountain Top area (X360 and PS3), or by attacking her on her perch (for example, with spells such as Winter's Grasp). If the Warden decides to help Kolgrim and follows through, the party won't be able to fight the dragon before killing Kolgrim and his followers. This can be done by speaking to him and selecting the option stating that he is too dangerous to be left alive. When he is slain, the gong can be interacted with again (or the party gains the horn).

Notably, this could be the High Dragon which the Dragon Age was named after. The dragon which rampaged in 8:99 Blessed was from the Frostback Mountains.

Abilities

Breath may refer to:

• Dragon Breath, a talent used by Archdemon, Flemeth the Shapeshifter and High dragon.
• Flame Breath (dragon), a talent used by Dragon.
• Flame Breath (dragonling), a talent used by Dragonling.

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Buffet

Fire Spit

Grab may refer to:

• Grab (broodmother), a talent used by Broodmothers.
• Grab (high dragon), a talent used by High dragons.
• Grab (ogre), a talent used by ogres.
• Grab (strategy), for strategy against grab.

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Massive Attack

Roar may refer to:

• Roar (dragon), a talent used by Dragon.
• Roar (high dragon), a talent used by High dragons and Archdemon.

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Slap may refer to:

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

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Sweep may refer to:

• Sweep (broodmother), a talent used by Broodmother.
• Sweep (high dragon), a talent used by High dragons and Archdemon.

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Loot

Dragon Scale

Antivan Longbow

Deadhead Charge

Crow Dagger

Grandmaster Flame Rune

Heavy Infantry Helmet

Heavy Plate Armor x2

Heavy Plate Boots

Heavy Plate Gloves

Maetashear War Axe

Metal Kite Shield

Pure Bitch Braid

Qunari Siege Gauntlets

Storm Talons

The Long Sight

Secret

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See Flemeth the Shapeshifter for details on defeating Flemeth.

In addition to the Mountain Top encounter, the Warden can fight another high dragon if he/she chooses to kill Flemeth in the quest for her grimoire. She will shapeshift into a high dragon, which must be killed. The attack can be avoided using certain dialog options. If you do so, you will not be able to fight Flemeth at a later date.

Dragon Age: Awakening

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• A third high dragon is encountered near the entrance to Drake's Fall in the Dragonbone Wastes. It has a chance of dropping minor random loot.
• The Queen of the Blackmarsh is a spectral high dragon that can be encountered at Blackmarsh after completing the main quest of that area.

Dragon Age II

See Mine Massacre (strategy) for details on defeating this high dragon.

A high dragon is fought in the Bone Pit during the quest Mine Massacre (Act 3).

Other appearances

Another High Dragon is depicted in Dragon Age: The Silent Grove guarding the Silent Grove in the Tellari Swamps and its mistress Yavana.

In a flashback memory recited by Sten in Dragon Age: Until We Sleep, a mysterious Witch of the Wilds leads a simple dog handler to a cave where an ancient high dragon lays dying, after which the man slits the beast's throat and drinks its blood in order to gain its power.

Trivia

• The Archdemons take the form of massive corrupted high dragons.
• To become a true Reaver a ritual must be done using dragon blood, although, wyvern blood may be used to unlock base level Reaver powers, as possibly done with the Warden.

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Dragon Age: Origins.

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• In Dragon Age II, Flemeth's High Dragon form is unique compared to other high dragons, being of a larger size with a dark red/purple tint, and having many spikes on her head.

Gallery

High dragon in Origins

High dragon in Dragon Age II