Ethereal Dragons

These beasts are generally smaller and less intelligent than the long snout dragons, behaving more similarly to the short snout variety. However, they possess the ability to pass to and from the ethereal plane with ease, allowing them to appear pretty much at will, and in the strangest places. They are generally not aggressive towards people, since they survive off of desiccated souls trapped on the ethereal plane, but their scales are of enormous value, and the dragons are therefore hunted ferociously. However, they are incredibly difficult to pin down, and are still dangerous, so it only the most skilled hunters take them on.

Ethereal dragon scales are both incredibly tough, as well as useful. Any gear or armor made from them allows the use to pass through into the ethereal armor at will.