# Echoes across the Worlds; Dragon Echo Characteristics
*Source: Fizban's Treasury of Dragons p. 42*
**Dragon Echo Characteristics**
`dice: [](echoes-across-the-worlds-dragon-echo-characteristics-ftd.md#^dragon-echo-characteristics)`
| dice: d8 | Echo Characteristics |
|----------|----------------------|
| 1 | Same dragon kind and age, differing only in physical appearance |
| 2 | Same dragon kind and age, differing only in a peculiar mannerism |
| 3 | Same dragon kind and age, but significantly different in personality, ideals, or alignment |
| 4 | Same dragon kind and generally alike, but older or younger by one category |
| 5 | Same age, different kind within the same family (chromatic, gem, or metallic), and similar in appearance and personality |
| 6 | Same age, different kind in a different family (with a similar breath weapon or habitat), with similar appearance but very different ideals or alignment |
| 7 | Radically different in almost every way imaginable but still bound by fate across the worlds |
| 8 | Roll again, and in addition the echo is Undead (a dracolich, [hollow dragon](/Rules/Source/bestiary/undead/hollow-dragon-ftd.md), [ghost dragon](/Rules/Source/bestiary/undead/ghost-dragon-ftd.md), or [draconic shard](/Rules/Source/bestiary/undead/draconic-shard-ftd.md)) or a shadow dragon. |
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