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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Better Than You

The Snowager has been a contestant on Better Than You once:

Date:	February 24, 2011	Rrrr... Grrrr.... RAAAWWWWWWWRRRRRR!!!!!
Game:	Wrath of the Snowager
Score:	1,400,000
Prize:	Snow Petpet Paint Brush

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

• Location Link: 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