Decided to just make Varanthian a half-white dragon.

Party decided that "the ghostlord's gotta be a druid, which means he'll be pissed if goblins start destroying the forest, and we saw some half-dragon behir eat a lion, so he's gotta be willing to help us, let's go ask him" So they walked up to the lion, and got Ulwai's (pretending to be the ghostlord) assurance that he would go kill some goblins, and they left entirely satisfied with themselves convinced a level 13+ druid (due to spell crafting the staff made control weather they walked in to) would be helping them.