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We already know that Beau changes his colours when Artha activates the gold amour.

My question is that if their were other gold dragons alive and they wanted to help the Dragon of Legend, should they be able to change their colours on their own?

I'm pretty sure there aren't any still around. :) There are enough secret organisations in canon for there to be another for the Preservation of the Golden Dragon very reasonably.

It's stated that the gold dragons in the past were bred in order to become different colours for specialisation purposes, which implies that they couldn't change influences on their own. It's then stated that the DB was responsible for turning them back to gold again. Which means that no, colour change is probably not an inherent ability in gold dragons. But dragon paint seems to exist in the universe!

i think that the gold dragons in the past could change thier colors. But i think that the patterns would be different.

I don't believe there are supposed to be any other gold dragons around in the present time. At least not any that Connor, Word or the Dragon Priests that raised them know about.

As for color changing abilities another gold dragon might have, that's a bit vague in canon. We do know that gold dragons can mag all gear, so they have a stated affinity for all the colors of draconium. It's also been stated that Beau finding the right person to be the Dragon Booster is the key to releasing his super powers. How much the amulet and DB suit play into that is unknown. So for example, if there were another gold dragon and that dragon found a human rider that perfectly balanced with its own energy the way Artha does with Beau, then would that gold dragon be able to change color and have super powers like Beau? It's a good question and one that's not easily answered in canon. You could probably argue it either way.

I hope they don't suddenly introduce another gold dragon in season 4 or 5 myself. That seems too deus ex machina after they've spent so much time saying Beau is the sole gold dragon. Though he could have offspring of course, but then the story would have to jump ahead to when they were old enough to help daddy. :)

My question wasn't in context to the show but to a possible, but unofficial, story line in my Consortium Chronicles series

BTW thanks to you Sarah for reveiwing my X-Men fanfic

Well, if it's not DB fanfic, you're free to make the rules however you see fit. :) Thanks for the interesting question.

I should add that I'm planning to use the DB characters in it but it will never be officialy published, save for Fanfiction.net

Now I'm really wondering what you want to do with your story. If you want to write about a bunch of golden dragons helping a legendary figure and you don't want to take DB canon as gospel, you're better off making it entirely original, because there's really nothing there that a fan of the series is going to accept (OCs are great, but either use canon characters or canon events to make it recognizable!). You may want to use some DB characters, but you can very easily turn the DB characters into original characters by creating slightly different versions of the cliche (Teenage Hero/ine, Spunky Lass/Lad, Brainac Sidekick, Cute Kid, etcetera). File off the serial numbers if that's what you want to write, because focusing on original gold dragons on top of not wanting to use the show as context really doesn't seem like fanfic to me.

On the other hand, if you want to explore an alternate timeline as a reason for these new gold dragons to be running around, that's fine too. Think about where you deviate from canon and why, and what that does to the existing characters (bearing in mind that people either read fanfic for insight into canon events or canon characters, and if you haven't got either you need originalfic).

…Y’know, on second thought, I think I might just scrap the whole story-line idea and make Rayn one of Rebecca’s post-war NeoPets.

Tyrannis Pax is a Gold-boned dragon and he never changes color.

Actually, on the Dragon Booser website it says that Tyrannis Pax is a blue boned dragon and that Mortis' primary draconium influence is also blue, yet Connor's file says his primary influence is brown, though in Mortis' file it says brown is a secondary influence and in Connor's it says blue is a secondary influence... That's very confusing, but that's what the character profiles say, though it is a little inconsistent.

Tyrannis Pax doesn't look blue at all on screen, so I assume that's a typo. With Contis, I assume he was pretty closely balanced between blue and brown influences, and lets his brown show through as Connor and blue show as Mortis. Multiple personality disorder, only not so dramatic. The influence really seems to be a personality thing anyway; someone with heavy mood swings might fluctuate a good deal between influences and need a bi-coloured dragon to deal with them no matter which of their influences is currently winning.

yeah i think they should because if they can't word will try to capture them and experiment on them

Nah, Beau can only do it because he's the Dragon of Legend. In "The Choosing" when he first does it, the star on his forhead glows, meaning that he's using one of his legendary abilities. Normal, non legendary gold dragons, (Back when they still exsisted) Had no such ability. And he doesn't even change draconium color at all when Beau is racing with his day-racer disguise, his mag-stream is still gold and he can still mag any gear he wants. (It makes me wonder how no one has ever noticed this, but w/e.)

Indeed, I too have this question from a long time...! It is not only Beau but other dragons also can mag gears of different colors (Ex: The blue gear used by Kitt (The rules of power), Green ramming gear by Moordryd almost in all eppies.. etc etc)

If I've to guess right, though the dragon mags other colored gears they may not be able to use it as effective as the respective colored dragon whereas gold dragons may be able to use all gears as effective as the corresponding colored dragon. Moreover Artha is the son of a man who owns a stable that coulda had many dragons with gold draconium energy and thatz the reason why Word/Moordryd did not had any doubt.

Yeah, this was adressed in the Dragonology questions. There's no gear that any given dragon can't mag, but gear of conflicting draconium influences (Like Cyrano using Wyldfyr's Red Thruster Gear.) just won't work as well. I mean I havn't seen many white dragons on the show, but just about everyone uses Climbing, Sledding, or Aero gear at some point.

I doubt that Penn Stables has several gold dragons. They're extinct (except for Beau, and T. Pax maybe.) and it took Connor decades to breed one.

Well, it couldn't have been decades. Connor is 47 and Beau is 16, which means Beau hatched when Connor was 31. Being generous and assuming he was able to start the breeding program when he was say 15, that means it only took him 16 years to breed Beau. That's awfully quick. Maybe Connor used some artifact to speed up the process (like Word's black draconium pod thingy), though if dragons are sentient, then it would be unethical to use something like that on them without consent.

The other possibility is that the Dragon Priests already had a breeding program underway and Connor merely took it over. Maybe someone will ask The Magna Draconis this question so we can know for sure. ;)

And I too would really like to know what type of dragon T. Pax is and whether he always had four arms or if he grew them when he evolved. Maybe someone will ask that question as well. :)

I think the Gold bone has the power to do that...change color...Beau did it frist before Artha got the armer....{^=^} so I think they can change if they want to

Beau can disguise himself because he's the Dragon of Legend. Other gold dragons (Like the ones from 3000 years ago, back when they were the norm, or T. Pax if he is one.) probably don't have this ability.