The Snowager

The Snowager guarding its treasure

The Snowager is a giant ice worm who lives in the Ice Caves. Cold as ice and extremely mean, the Snowager is renowned for its freezing cold breath. It keeps a large treasure pile in his cave, which he always sleeps upon. While he sleeps for only a few hours a day, players may choose those times to approach and try to steal some of his hoard. The Snowager may based on the dragons of European folklore, who in many stories - Beowulf, Fafnir - guarded treasure.

The Snowickle Petpet is reminiscent of the Snowager - in its snakelike appearance and markings, and tendency to hoard objects - and fans have theorised that it the Snowager may be an overgrown form of the Snowickle, like the Turmaculus is an overgrown Turmac.

Snowager's Cave

The Snowager's Cave was added to the Ice Caves map on January 11, 2001. Through this cave is where the ice worm was first introduced.

The Snowager only sleeps between 6-7 AM, 2-3 PM, and 10-11 PM, Neopia Standard Time. During these times, it is possible to sneak in and grab a prize from the pile of treasure he rests on. Prizes range from Neggs to medicine to plushies. The Snowager can also wake up and deal damage to your active pet, or even to all of them, by delivering a powerful icy blast.

Plot summaries

NeoQuest II

Main article: NeoQuest II

The Snowager is an NPC in NeoQuest II, and contrary to his terrorising role in the Ice Caves, in the simulation he keeps order in Terror Mountain's roads of avalanches, as well as eating various monsters in the mountain, which are actually the ship's data routes and the ship's viruses respectively. He is imprisoned by Scuzzy and it is the job of Rohane and his party to defeat Scuzzy and free the Snowager. After Scuzzy is defeated the Snowager is free and reveals himself as a sentient program in charge of maintaining the ship's computers, but that a virus has been installed and now has control of the ship's computers.

Battledome

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Quotes

During Fight...

• Aww did the little NeoPet get hurt...
• You think you can be beat me with those ridiculous weapons of yours???
• Death or Life, it isn't a hard decision...
• You DARE to bother me!
• Feel my icy blast!!!!!!
• I see you're using one of the snowballs you STOLE from me!
• Watch out little one, you might just get hurt...
• Pathetic mortal, what do you think you are doing?
• And you thought you'd get away...
• Maybe you should wait until I'm sleeping. That way, you may have a chance!

After Loss...

• (unknown) (random During Fight quote)

After Win...

• Maybe next time you will beat me!!! (random During Fight quote)

Frozen

• You froze me! I can't believe this! (followed by random During Fight quote)

Lose

• Good job, you are a powerful warrior!

Win

• (unknown)

Trivia

• The Snowager How to Draw tutorial was added on December 15, 2007.
• Next to Punchbag Sid, The Snowager is the strongest one-player Battledome opponent available outside of plots.
• An avatar featuring the Snowager was released on December 8, 2004. The avatar is randomly rewarded when your pet(s) get blasted trying to steal its treasure.

External Links

• The Snowager
• Neopedia: The Snowager, Simon and the Snowager
• NeoDeck: The Snowager
• Neopets TCG: Snowickle, Snowager Ice Lolly, Snowager Scale, The Snowager
• How to Draw - The Snowager
• Caption Competition: #140, #277, #345, #348, #399, #499, #751
• Help File: Does the Snowager ever sleep?
• Editorial: 39, 72, 73, 80, 82, 90, 93, 94, 110, 148, 237, 238, 244, 249, 257, 263, 266, 268