i got this dragon merged with a plane :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8kn4vzt1w....._1280.png?dl=0

does that help? :D

From what I gather in WoW, someone from the Bronze Dragonflight was corrupt enough to have Garrosh Hellscream escape and alter the time line.

So for that reason, I'll put in a vote for Bronze =)

We once had an old gold dragon who was our quest giver for a D&D campaign. After clearing out various forts, caves, and other areas, we came to find out that we were inadvertently helping him expand his territory. Sadly, we never finished this campaign, but I could see a similar ideal happening in one of your pictures. So my vote is gold.

From the journal title, I was half-expecting a Metallica/Imagine Dragons mashup.

Gold, bring such beauty down.

I agree with this one's sentiment.

Silver scales are sexiest, sir. >:}

Being a silver i say silver! Also being so noble and good hearted and closest to paladins when it comes to honor definitely best for corruption. <.< *wants to be corrupted* >.>

Seconded, corruption can be fun.

...Not that I've ever been corrupted, just a normal hyena over here.

Third(ed?)! Also have a silver dragoness, and would absolutely love to see those pretty shining scales corrupted.

I've primarily concerned myself with finding references for bronze and silver dragons for version 3.5, on account that my fursona is a bronze dragon and an OC of mine is a silver, and I've found that the Draconomicon offers a satisfying amount of reference material for most of the core D&D dragons.

That said, I've found the hardest to find proper references for have been silver dragons, and a quick Google search yielded images like this one.

Regarding corruption, any metallic can be corrupted just as easily as any chromatic can be cleansed. The only particulars rest in how that would come about. As far as I'm concerned, alignment is just a suggestion and need not be adhered to as if holy writ in stone.

That said, If I were to pick one to be the best to corrupt, it would be bronze - between being the most war-like and brilliant strategists to boot, a corrupted bronze could potentially run Xanatos Gambits every day of the week, even moreso if they become power-hungry.

In other words: this.

Gold are the closest to Bahumet so that corruption may be better, but Silver is the most appealing for me personally.

Copper is best for corruption, since they can oxidise to a nice greeny tone.

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Why pick one?

Corrupt them all!

*evil laughter*

Gotta corrupt 'em all!

Pokémon!

Silver.

They hang out with people. People are corrupting. Also: Silver tarnishes to a dark grey color.

Tarnish in action on silver (pure on the right, extremely tarnished on the left): Link.

I would go with gold or silver

Bronze, since they are the most goody-goody. ;)

I dunno about that - bronze dragons are rather bellicose for a "good" dragon.

Personally I think the original AD&D artists painted the best dragons. They were
Larry Elmore ( http://larryelmore.com/ )
Keith Parkinson ( http://www.keithparkinson.com/main.php )
Clyde Caldwell ( http://www.clydecaldwell.com/ )

As for the best to be corrupted, I'd say the gold ones. It's always more interesting to see these holier-than-you guys fall. The silver ones are more bearable and the others are just not interesting enough for me.

*chuckles*
Reminds me when I was GM and my group met a human NPC and I let them think it was a golden dragon. They did a few quests for him before they found out it was a red dragon of great wyrm age polymorphed into a gold dragon. And they found out the hard way before they had the spells to discover it prematurely.

I use to have an Art of the Dragonlance book. That had some decent pics of the different dragons showing some of the differences between them. Not sure where the book is now though.

As for corrupting, I think brass would probably corrupt rather nicely, ideally into a tarnished greeny-gold look, everything else is pretty resistant.

Gold or silver would be my bet, as they tend to be the more powerful or symbolic ones, and thus serve better as a focus for corruption.

I'd say Gold. They're impressive, powerful shape shifters, and honorable. If one were to give a powerful oath to protect someone, it could lead them to taking that person's place to spare them a bad fate.

Gold dragon best for corrupted because they're usually the most benevolent and sage ones. Similar to a paladin's fall from grace.

Well for a good "metallic dragon" a good place to start would be this guy http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Kushala_Daora cant get more metallic than him without becoming metal, lol.

As for the corruption aspect, as a follower of DnD and an avid "fluff" reader, Silver and Bronze are my best choices for corruption. Silvers are very heavily into the other non-dragon races and much more poised to fall when the loss, or threatened loss, of someone they have become very attached to clashes with their desire to help. That, and Bronze dragons are very protective of people, places and things, leading to quite a few chances for them to stand their ground proudly (and foolishly) against a corruption they could never hope to fight off.

Gold is the most obvious choice for corruption, since they are supposed to be the goodiest and purest and wisest, and would be the most humiliated at being brought down.

Though Kleet has an excellent point about coppers :)

There are no canonical references for D&D dragons; recent editions have tried to impose some kind of consistency, a dismal effort that has only stifled the the individual creativity of the various artists; things used to be much more fun. I suggest googling "x dragon" and picking something you like!

I've always understood (in D&D) that gold dragons are the most 'noble' minded. Corruption of one would be juuust right.

I agree with everyone who suggested Gold. A corrupted Gold Dragon would make for an interesting "fall from grace" story. Personally, I think a Bronze Dragon would be better suited to corruption. Lore says that Bronze Dragons oppose tyranny and actively take part in war; always eager for a fight. Such battle lust would make one an easy target for any corrupting force. But that's just my two cents. :3

Storywise for being interesting...

Silver if you want to do a lot of stories of it after it is corrupted. but I am biased in that they are my favorite dragon.

Nothing beats the ability to be anyone or anything.

Silver I think would traditionally be one of the major choices, due to their shapeshifting, and tendency to become closer to humans and other lesser beings. Gold however is something I want to see as it would be quite rarer. Gold dragons, traditionally are the most powerful of the metallic dragons, but also possibly more withdrawn and aloof, and harder to corrupt.

There's the Draconomicon, that's got good reference drawings of all 10 baseline D&D dragons for 3rd ed.