Freeze

In early 2022 one of the rancid pools of the Scarred Wasteland split and leaked its liquid into the ocean. Now off shore in the ice warden's territory a current created by the Windswept Plateau carries that foul smelling liquid like a permanent blood stain on the surface of the water.

Despite its plague looking origins this sub species originates from the ice fields where ice dragons become contaminated with the mutating sludge in the water usually by swimming in the frigid seas.

Some of the dragons even started making up stories about the things that lurk in deep water to try and scare the younglings from swimming in it. Tales of various bloodthirsty beasts with many eyes to watch you with and writhing tails to drag you under are common knowledge for those who live by the water. Some even claim to have seen them and those who have say they look like dragons. Sometimes they look like those who go missing but warped and different.

Although the ice aberrations look fearsome most of them are peaceful and reclusive out in the ice floats. Those who see them either run screaming or every so often try to fight them. Most know who they were before the change but daren't return home for fear of being hunted.

Freeze is a more confident aberration having had some less volatile reactions from the dragons who pass by. Most turn and fly in the opposite direction flapping wildly but on occasion one slows down for a closer look.