Chromatic Dragonflight – WoW Dragonflight

The chromatic dragonflight of Blackrock Spire was created by Nefarian’s magical experiments, using the blood of dragons from the other dragonflights. These experiments were largely considered failures; many whelps died before hatching, and those that survived were unstable, short-lived, volatile, and/or deformed. Those that reached adulthood were artificially aged by Nefarian’s twisted magics.

Chromatic dragonflight
Breath Flame, Magma, Sand, Lightning, Ice, Poison, Arcane
Major leader(s) Unknown
Formerly Deathwing †
Nefarian †
Racial capital Blackrock Spire
Area(s) Blackrock Spire

  • Upper Blackrock Spire
  • Blackwing Lair
  • Blackwing Descent
Homeworld Azeroth
Language(s) Draconic
Affiliation Old Gods’ forces
Status Crippled / Destroyed

Known members

Name Type Role Status Location
Chromatus Dragon First and only successfully created chromatic dragon Inanimate Unknown
Gyth Drake First and oldest known chromatic drake, mount of Rend Blackhand Deceased Formerly Blackrock Stadium, Upper Blackrock Spire
Chromaggus Drakeadon Drakeadon infused with powers of all five flights Killable Crimson Laboratories, Blackwing Lair
Chromitus Drake Chromatic drake Killable Island Expeditions

Chromatic Dragonflight

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As a mount

[Experiment 12-B] has a very low chance to drop from Ultraxion in Dragon Soul on Normal and Heroic difficulty.

In the RPG

The breeding program began with Deathwing in ages past to replenish his own destroyed dragonflight. While Deathwing aimed to create chromatic dragons years ago (this desire constituted much of his motivation for attacking Grim Batol), he was never able to capture enough eggs to succeed.

His son, Nefarian, has recently succeeded to an extent, creating dozens of these chromatic dragon whelps — young dragons with the properties of all five dragonflights. To crush Ragnaros, Nefarian had begun the efforts to bolster his forces against the Firelord and his army of golems, elementals, and dark iron dwarves for control over the Blackrock Mountain. Nefarian currently breeds with the assistance of Rend Blackhand and the rest of the Dark Horde, who hope to use the dragons to overthrow Warchief Thrall and make the Horde back into the conquering, bloodthirsty force it once was.

Notes

  • The game manual and Story So Far article for The Burning Crusade describe the chromatic dragons as hybrids of only red and black dragons, instead of as hybrids of all five dragonflights.
  • The [Soaring Skyterror], a rylak mount, is described as a “chromatic rylak” and uses the same color scheme as members of the chromatic dragonflight (red-violet, yellow and cyan).
  • The CM Caydiem once posted on the official forums, “The breeding program began with Neltharion many years in the past. While it’s not yet proven what methods Nefarian uses for his Chromatic flight, it’s worth noting that some of his creations hold weaknesses that their predecessors did not have, thus lending credence to the idea that he is using a different (seemingly inferior and/or untested) method from that of Deathwing.”

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