Crystal Dragon

Neutral creatures
Level 1
Peasant
Halfling
Level 2
Rogue
Boar
Leprechaun
Level 3
Nomad
Mummy
Level 4
Sharpshooter
Satyr
Steel Golem
Level 5
Troll
Gold Golem
Fangarm
Level 6
Diamond Golem
Enchanter
Level 7
Faerie Dragon
Rust Dragon
Crystal Dragon
Azure Dragon
Towns

Crystal Dragons are level 7 neutral creatures recruited from the Crystal Cavern.

"Made entirely from red crystal and brought to life through magical means, the Crystal Dragon is literally semitransparent, lit from the center by its magical heart. Used frequently as a training tool for young dragon slayers, many wizards also create these creatures for the crystal they shed." ^{AB manual}

Others

Placing Crystal Dragons (as well as any living Dragons) in the Skeleton Transformer will give you Bone Dragons instead of regular Skeletons.

Crystal generation special ability

Crystal Dragons have vaguely phrased special ability called crystal generation. It produces three crystals (3x ) at the beginning of each week if the player has at least one crystal dragon in any of his armies. The effect is not cumulative, which means that several crystal dragon stacks in a hero's army or several crystal dragon stacks in different heroes' armies does not produce more than the three crystals.

Appearance

Crystal Dragons were added in Armageddon's Blade so there are no Crystal Dragons or Crystal Caverns in Restoration of Erathia. They also appear at the end of the Crystal Dragons scenario from the Dragon Slayer campaign in Armageddon's Blade.

Tactics and info

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They are also the second strongest creature in the game in raw stats, the first being the Azure Dragon. Crystal Dragons can also be resurrected, probably due to their magical heart, even though they are considered to be golems.

Trivia

Even though in the game files themselves the Crystal Dragon and other neutral dragons are considered to be level 7, the official editor shows they are level 10 (8 for Faerie Dragon). This is either due to code limitations and impossibility of creating a unit with tier higher than 7, either because the developers didn't have time, motivation or reason to add a new creature level in the game code and invest time in that, just telling us they are level 10, respectively 8. As such, even now their levels are still being debated.

See also:

• Neutral creature
• List of creatures