Characters and Backstories

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Of course! Moordryd is one of my favorites too. Zulay and Word were once great street racers in the early Dragon Eye crew and this is where they fell in love. They were teens at the time and also during this stretch of their young lives, Word was experimenting more than ever with the dangerous draconium gear that got him banished from the priesthood. At this point, the gear was only just beginning to spread to the street crews and it was mostly Word's creation of black draconium gear that began the influx of other colored gear from the other crews in an attempt to level the playing field. Soon a whole street industry grew and more and more draconium gear was introduced to street racing...all part of the plan of course to bring back another war! Up until Word, most gear was mechanical in nature much like you'd put on a motorcycle, intakes, wings, hydraulics, that kind of thing as ANYTHING that smacked of the ancient mag energy was banned outside of the Elite Class. When Word and Zulay were in their early 20s they married and had Moordryd at which time, Zulay began to pull back from street crew life which created friction between her and Word. She now began to doubt whether a war was indeed a good idea and wanted a better world for her son. Needing to prove her loyalty to Word, she tested some very dangerous black gear and vanished. The young Moordryd someplace deep inside, recorded this event and Word from that point on, in a twisted attempt to love and protect his son, controlled him to such an extent as to never have him know enough to "leave" like his mother did. Sad truth of course is that Moordyrd is being slowly driven away by Word. Tragic. Being so controlled, Moordryd of course likes to step out and feel important on his own, which explains his dramatic nature and desire to be the center of attention. Deep inside, he just wants to be loved and accepted, which is why he's friends with Cain. Cain genuinely likes Moordryd and looks up to him, something I think you can all see that Moordryd appreciates and even hopes for but it so very uncomfortable with. Quick other answers: Yes, he knows how to get out of Precinct because he's been caught before. He became leader of the Dragon Eyes because his father was and at the proper time, Word passed it down.


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Not to worry Burnout Beau, Artha only blabs that he hates dragons. He's just fed up at the beginning of the series because he blames his father's profession for taking up his dad's time. He also doesn't want all that responsibility. He's stuck working at the stable whereas other kids might be off without the job of picking up after dragons. All Artha had to do of course was just give the dragons and Beau a chance. Think of the dragon as the dangerous side of human nature and power and you'll understand better. To Artha, facing the dragon would be the same as looking deep inside himself at what scares him and also what he dreams of doing in the greater sense. That's why Word says at the beginning of the series, "The Dragon is Power". At the beginning of the series, Artha felt powerless in a sense and in this way, feared having any real power. To expand into your second question, there are humans who just do human-like jobs but they still have to ride dragons to work, though like the Amish, I'm sure you'll find segments of humans on this world who will avoid dragons as if they were technology.

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Hi Arrow. Yes, though we don't see it in the series, Lance does indeed go to school but Dragon City is a little more about home schooling and a little less about actual classrooms. While you are ages 4-12, you do attend a school of sorts for the most part but once a teen, your educational life shifts more into the profession you do, where your education continues under mentorship with one of the vast industries that support the city or the sport of Dragon Racing. Read on, as a later answer explains more about why Dragon Racing is so important. Hope that helps!


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Fun question BlueBooster...and one I'm afraid I don't want to completely give away the answer to. ; ) There is some relationship to Artha and Moordryd but it's not their mothers, but that does give them something else in common. Artha's mom got sick and passed on when he was very young, leaving him to help raise Lance. Part of Artha's not wanting responsibility early on, comes from his feeling that he has already been given too much. I will tell you that if and when we see the Academy, we will learn quite a few surprising things about Artha and Moordryd!


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Just the kind of cool question I'd expect from a Mechanist Rivit lol! Seriously, the original Shadow Booster is who trapped Armeggaddon in the Shadow Track during a battle that indirectly included the original Dragon Booster. The battle severed and lost the Bone Marks on his eight dragons (The League of Eight) and when he feared the worst, trapping him the track was all too easy. The Bone marks were hidden while he was imprisoned and only the secret order of Dragon Priests knows their location. Once your in the track, you have no idea how much time has passed as your held in a suspended animation of sorts. There are other "things" that got out of that track too by the way during the "Faster Then Fear" episode! To complete the answer to your question, Armeggaddon's worst fear of course, is being weak and beaten a situation he could never accept. Can you guess what Word's would be? It's losing his son like he lost his wife.

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Adding my own comments:

Well, I was close on who trapped Armeggaddon in the Shadow Track. I had figured it was the original Dragon Booster, but it was the original Shadow Booster. And this is now proof that SB and Armeggaddon are not the same character as some have speculated. So that solves that.

So, Artha and Moordryd have a relationship after all. Those of us who were here a long time back were speculating on that very possibility. Some people had proposed that Artha and Moordryd had the same mother, a theory propelled by the fact that their ages are just far enough apart to allow that, though even that is assuming that the human gestation period is the same on their planet as it is here which may not be the case. Relative to us, the humans in Dragon City are aliens and may not have quite the same biology. But I digress...

So now we know it's not their mothers they have in common, which I was sure was never the case. You're just not going to see Word and Connor sharing the same wife in animated show that airs on Toon Disney. :) But this brings us back to a theory I (and I think others as well) had proposed long ago: the fact that Word and Connor were taken in by the Dragon Priests as orphans raises the possibility that they're brothers, and apparently unbeknowst to them. If true, that would make Artha and Moordryd cousins. I guess we'll just to wait for more clues. :D

And we know for sure that Zulay is in the "missing, presumed dead" category. And like many of us thought, that makes it possible for her to return at some point. I think we always knew that something was going to be done with her character since she was mentioned at all in the story.

So what do the rest of you think? :)

Interesting. :) But the dates are a little wrong: Word was about thirty-four when Moordryd was born, as he's fifty now.

DRAC!!!! Finally some proof that original SB and Armageddon are seperate. Not to mention that we have all but the very next eppisodes to prove DB is continuing.HURAH!

Ooh, I like this! (Giggles madly at the term 'relationship' between Moordryd and Artha) But seriously, let's thank all the creators for giving the fans some info! :dance:

ooh yay my question got answered the relationship between Artha & Moordryd is spine tingling i guess we'll get more secrets revealed in dragon booster academy , if they show it that is :P

i just really wished i lived in their world right now!
instead of going to school for thirteen years you only go for eight

that is so sad though that artha's mom died :(

well that explained a few questions i didn't know i had



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AWESOME :D
it's great to finally get some answers!
so there is a chance we could see Zulay ^_^
can't wait to here more results

after reading that i went onto youtube to watch faster than fear
i found something pretty cool close to the end
i had to watch that part like a gazillion times trying to figure out what they were, that's cause i was only catching the tails

pic 1

pic 2

sorry that they are a little blurry
there are two dragons, both seem to be gold
the one you mainly see looks like a gold decepshun, the second looks black and gold, origanal dragons any one?



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What in the world are those things?They look like metal dragons to me but they seem to be floating.

OMG That is freaky mabye it's a new foe! :eep:

I'm guessing we'll see those 'things' again? I hope so, from your screenshots, arrow, they look totally drac!

Awwwwwww...

Word was once the leader of the Dragon Eyes? So Moordryd must have grown up in Down City his whole life instead of ever living in Sun City.

Can't wait for Moordryd and Artha's relationship. :D But Word and Connor look really, really different, could they really be brothers? If they were, why wouldn't the Dragon priests tell them that? Or maybe Word and Connor know, they just haven't told anyone yet... :unsure:

Nah, it's just a regular dragon. The problem with the videos on youtube is that everything is so compressed that the images are loaded with compression artifacts. It just distorts the image beyond recognition. Here's what that dragon looks like when he's more fully emerged:

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Here you can see it's just a greenish biped dragon with big ears. Nothing special. I single stepped through that whole sequence, and nothing that isn't clearly a dragon and its rider emerges from the track. Whatever else Rob is referring to is unseen in this episode, so we'll just have to wait and see.

Yeah, and now we know why Artha, Kitt and Parmon have enough free time to race and save the world. They don't have to go to school! :) Lance is the only one that goes to school and maybe he's even home-schooled by Connor/Mortis which explains why he's around so much of the time.

I don't think it's necessarily the case that Moordryd grew up in Down City. He may have just decided to locate the crew compound there, perhaps just to distance himself from his father.

Brother's don't always have a family resemblance. My own father and his brother don't really look anything alike. And my mother doesn't look much of anything like either of her two sisters.

The simplest explanation would be that they don't know either. They just got two orphans dropped on their doorstep, perhaps at different times and never saw a reason to do a DNA test. A more complex explanation is that it was part of the prophecy that they not be told. :plot:

That's possible, too. Or maybe they're not brothers at all and the relationship between Artha and Moordryd is something else altogether. Don't know, but it will be fun finding out! ^_^

So, Artha only blabs that he hate dragons because he's tired of working with them, eh? Interesting. :plot:

Initially, I thought some sort of traumatic event might have happened in the past to Artha that led him to hate dragons, but turns out to be otherwise. Hmm... :rolleyes:

Secondly, who would've thought that it was Shadow Booster and not DB's the one who banished Armeggadon into the Shadow Tracks. Another interesting fact, but what I'm wondering is how Armeggadon got his hand on the amulet in the first place?

As for the "other things" that got out of the Shadow Track, I bet they're no friend of DB either... :plot:

If that's the case, all of us should be working by now. :D

More questions raised by the answers...

First, timeline issues.

Word must've handed over the Dragon Eyes within the past three years, more likely past year, because Moordryd's only sixteen. Which makes him 47 at the least at time of quitting. But Pyrrah and Wulph are seventeen, Phistus eighteen, and the others don't look much past that. Khatah's the oldest at twenty-two, and he's already been through the Academy, which by turn implies that Chute's younger than him. (Propheci might be older, but he's sekrit.) This all gives off the impression that the Crews are for young 'uns--yet, as per the dragonology thread, they don't just have branches in Down City, and the two Academy blokes training with Artha also wore Crew-symbols. Maybe they are usually inherited from family, but was there a sudden spate of future leaderbabies between sixteen and twenty-two years ago for some odd reason?

In any case, nobody on the Council seems to treat Word like he was in their number just a couple of years ago. Fanning the Flames: Phistus calls him "Mr Paynn, sir" (and if Phistus started at sixteen, Moordryd would have to have been thirteen when he became Crew-leader for Phistus not to have once been on a formally equal plane with Word) as he sweeps in to send them on an errand, and there's not one hint of the history that's been mentioned here.

Second, Moordryd knowing the way out of Precinct: Faiar views him as a hero in that ep where he's running around faking wraith rescuing. You'd think someone would know he had a prison record.

Also, briefly on the racing issue: the war games sound cool and all, but it being so important in the city makes it less plausible that Artha hasn't been found out yet as the Mysterious Rookie. I suppose he might be seen as another privileged kid like Moordryd, but Moordryd was getting beaten by the not-so-privileged Kitt before Artha turned up, and he'd had experience plus birth advantage. (Poor Kitt. Would never have been chosen as the Dragon Booster, pity the poor useless cheerleader.)

It's a shame both Artha and Moordryd's mothers appear to be sufferers of Dead Parent Syndrome. I'd wish at least one of them wasn't a tragic victim. (Having to prove your loyalty to your husband? Abuse hotline, please!) I reckon Word and Connor are connected in some way--Artha and Moordryd seem to be the two only "qualified" to ride Beau, even for Moordryd when Beau seems a little unwilling, as I've mentioned before. I wouldn't place a bet on them being brothers, but it's pretty obvious that the priests thought there was something unique about Word and Connor, as it seems like they were the only two taken in.

So if the Original SB trapped Arrmeggadon in the Shadow Track, would the Original SB be in there, I mean was he in there?

I think, perhaps, that the original SB somehow forced Armegeddon into the Shadow Track then sealed it. If not, I'm sure that the original Shadow Booster would have had the strength of heart (Gosh that was cheesy) the escape. At least, that's my theory.

And is it also possible that after the bonemarks were taken from Armeggy's eight dragons, they were also trapped in the Shadow Track with him? Which would explain where he got them from.

How did Arrmeggadon get the SB amulet, did he pull it from the gauntlet a the last minute?


Now we know why Word didn't want Moordryd going to get the furox in "Fanning the Flames".

and how explain that the gaulet was outside the Shadow track???

Easy. The amulet got trapped in there when Armeggaddon did, either as a result of being dislodged through the battle/energy expenditure or as a result of Armmy grabbing it, and the gauntlet got "safely" (by ancient standards of placing it at the top of a huge, conspicuous tower, similarly to placing the Samurox very visibly across a chasm that a dedicated team of archaeologists would no doubt be able to traverse safely in some sort of rope arrangement) stored away after the war.

I'd guess that Armmy's eight dragons come from much the same place as Word's wraith dragons--stolen, orphaned, whatever. But maybe they were trapped with him. They also weren't quite his dragons, as apparently they did do an awful lot of stirring-up-other-dragons for war.

People don't necessarily respect Word because of his seniority. It's most likely because he's a spaz and he scares the crap out of them he owns the largest gear manufactuing company in Dragon City, meaning that he could crush any one of them like a dead leaf. The only reason that anyone respects Moordryd is because of his father. And I think that one of his main motivations is trying to get out of that shadow. And maybe he hates Artha so much because he's on good terms with Connor. Notice how Artha calls Connor "Dad" but Moordryd calls Word "Father?"[/wild speculation]

I hadn't thought of that, but does seem to fit with what The Magna Draconis said. Trapping those dragons in there with him probably made sense since they must have been pretty nasty dragons to team up with him. Plus that easily explains how he now has eight pure black draconium dragons when previously Moordryd believed he had the only pure black dragon, meaning there weren't any others known to be around. It also explains why the eight we saw were so loyal to him -- they're the same ones he had from 3000 years ago.

Well, when Word was leading the Dragon Eyes, he was also racing in the elite class. And when he dropped out of that, he's had to have been extremely busy with his company. So perhaps, like Chute, Word hadn't been to a down city crew council, or even mingled with them at all. So Phistus, and any one else on the council, would not have ever met him personally, and to him, Word is a powerful crew leader, a powerful business man, and a once great street racer, who also happens to own most of Down City. Which is far more than any other has accomplished, so I think that's enough to be in awe of, which is what Elushun basically said before.

Round Two Q&A with The Magna Draconis

Hi you two, good question; simple answer, it's his mom's hair color! LOL!

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Hi Sai! Like Beau was Connor's attempt to breed the gold dragon, Decepshun was Word's attempt to breed the opposite, the vengeance of the dragon that the League of Eight of Armeggaddon was and stood for in the oringinal war! Word knows of course about how the black draconium empire began the great war and secretly hopes his son Moordryd will become the new Armeggaddon and begin it again. She is a dangerous and highly intelligent black dragon but also with that, she is fiercely independent! Armeggaddon knew that 8 dragons combined were far easier to control than just one. That one turned and Decepshun bears THAT bonemark!

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Fabulous question PyroWarriorZ! Yes, in fact, breeding back the gold dragon meant using and combining the elements of the original breed which resulted in the combined and historical memories of Beau rising into being. It's very Jungian, the psychologist who proposed that there is a universal consciousness that humans when very aware, can tap into. Same here, under the same circumstances, a like dragon such as the new Beau can feel and access the historical "essence" if you will or "eternal energy" of his namesake, meaning Beau lives again through him just as Artha taps into the actual essence of the original Dragon Booster.

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Good one leahili and Furox! Beau knew that Artha was the chosen one before Artha did! For me, think of this more symbolically; the dragon really stands for the various flavors and factions of human power and aggressive force, properly channeled in the individual, it means great advances for one and all but improperly so, feared or controlled, this power often leads to self destruction! In the literal and symbolic sense, Beau choosing Artha is the same as he power within YOU telling you it's time to move and make a difference. If we go with that, great but difficult things happen, if we fight it, it can destroy us, take us over and hurt others. Since Beau was bred back into existence, at that time and place, as the mirror to Artha, he almost had no choice but to choose. In a true sense, it was both of them that chose each other. When the student is ready, the teacher shall appear...but the teacher is really the outside voice of who you are inside. Make sense?

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Hey IbanezJFS! Zulay rode a black dragon of course. She was a great mother to Moordryd and in many ways, Moordryd is more his mother's son as he is very much as stubborn and combative with Word as she was. Only difference of course is that Word loved her dearly for it, and instead competes with his own son over it. I can't say too much again about this, but Decepshun IS one of Zulay's dragons.

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Cool one Burnout Beau. Beau is the actual descendant of the original just not directly. Connor used gold draconium from the ancient temples, cross bred years and years of dragons, hoping to bring back "the one". As near as Connor could ascertain, some of the dragons he used had bloodlines traceable to the dragon of legend and Tannis and the Priests told him that breeding the draconium was like turning a key so to speak, that the essence, the memory and power of the gold dragon had been scattered and awaited unity. Same for Artha, through balance and the unity of the powers of draconium, he can fully become the Dragon Booster that saves the planet. Beau, looks very, very similar to the original. The Gold bone mark that was forever lost to antiquity re-emerged on this new Beau. All other bone marks survived in secret from the war, Beau's just well, dissolved into the ether waiting to be called.

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Sure dolphinliss. Parm's dad is a government official who helps administrate the city in technology matters and mom is a professor of history which as you can see, gives Parm most of his background interests. Kitt is an orphan, raised on the streets, she flirted with the Dragon Flares (where she was raised as a very young girl) and other crews but was too fiercely independent to join any. Sorry, I'd love to tell you more, but it waits to be revealed at the Academy and beyond.


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Well, at least we got a clue about Artha's mom. ^_^

Wow, never knew Word too bred dragons as well! And Word wanted Moordryd to be the 'next' Armegaddon? Does that explains why Word/Drakkus fought Armegaddon in the first place?

Hmm? :eep: If Word bred Decepschun and she belongs to Zulay, does that means either Word or Zulay's dragon is her parent? A little confusing for me here... :faint:

Hmm, that makes sense. Love that concept. :)

So, if Beau was actually but not directly related to original Beau, does that make him a cousin or something?

I see...so the gold bonemark just disappeared along if original Beau died?

No wonder it wasn't easy to create another Dragon of Legend; the bonemark was deeply inherited by the one and only black-and-gold dragon and cannot be removed unlike the Furox and Vysox bonemark! That makes perfect sense to me now! :dance:

Wow, what a job Parm's dad had! Okay everyone, respect Parm now! :D

So Kitt used to hang out with the Dragon Flares? Does that explains how she got Wyldfyr? :plot:

Great, great answers, Magna Draconis! :cookie:

Yeah, I think we're not supposed to know too much right now. :)

Well, given the dragon population in the city, I would wager there's a lot of people breeding dragons. :D

I think it's more in the sense that Word wanted Moordryd to follow him in the "family business" so to speak.

Not sure, but given they were married, what's his is also hers. Or they may have both been involved with the breeding program.

Not a cousin, but a great, great, great, great, ... great grandson. :)

And who knew the city actually had a government. :P

Don't know. But we do know that Wyldfyr was also an orphan from the previous round of questions. I like to think they found each other. :)

Cool. I think I'm starting to get alot of questions that I haven't asked answered. Drac. :D :lol:

Well that works great for Sai, I didn't even plan on something like this sorta explaining some what of how Sai was breed. Glad he helped me. :lol:

Very interesting but the way that the original DoLs bone mark dissappeard and then re appeared means to me that that is the way the Furox could show up again. Very odd things seem to happen to gold boned dragons and those around them so who knows.....Love the answers and great questions guys!

fracshun has a secret bone mark
that was random

hmm, i'm getting a pretty good idea of kitt's past
there are just a couple pieces missing though, shoot i could write a fan fic but i need to know more :P

moordryd the next armeggadonn, what a funny picture!



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How many female dragons are there in Dragon City? There are so many male dragons. Who are Fracshun's parents? As far as I can see, Decepshun is the only female dragon in the City.

Well, I tend to doubt Decepshun is the only female dragon in the city. If she was, I think she'd be getting a lot more attention from the other dragons... ;)

Check out the Character Reference Sheet. There are quite a few other canon dragons that are female like Phorrj and Hyve in particular. I'm sure there are plenty of other females around. After all, all those dragons had to come from somewhere and one female couldn't possibly lay that many eggs! :P

And I'd like to see Fracshun's parents and Beau's parents as well, but it doesn't look like things like this are in the cards even if future episodes get made.

Round Three Q&A with The Magna Draconis

The Original Beau was just as the Beau you see in the series. Because of the powers of the Dragon of Legend, the transformation is from the Bone-Mark and the gold draconium and not from the evolution needed through academy training, though, my friend, Da Suga Queen, when we get this Beau into the Academy, well, something else might happen entirely. Remember, there was no Academy in ancient times so no place for that Beau to go for such practice and training. Hmmm, now I think I said too much LOL. 

Great question, thank you!

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Thanks koering. Well, you already know what he looked like as the armor Artha wears is one and the same, but I can tell you this. He was older, more like a noble knight who lost his way, kind of like Bowen in the movie "Dragonheart" if you know of it. Being a protector of the ancient ways of balance, akin to a mix of Connor Penn and a true dragon priest, the original Dragon Booster lost his faith and thought humans would fail and had failed, so he gave up. When all seemed lost, he chose to believe in himself and that is when the dragon of legend chose him! His name for now must remain a secret as that is for another tale!

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Hi BlueBooster. I don't want to give away too much as lots of Armeggaddon's history will be revealed in the Academy stories. I can tell you this: his rise to power and philosophy are very similar to Word's and in a way he's like a Word Paynn from a different time in history, just one that was based more in the ancient draconium arts than a mix of that and modern technology. The motivation is the same, instead of freeing the inner power and balance that is embodied in Dragon Booster and Beau, Word and Armeggaddon both think that this balance comes from force as humans are not worthy of such power...well, except in their arrogance, they think that somehow they are worthy. They also want to BE that blunt force of balance, instead of find that force inside themselves. The irony is that by trying to force the balance, they are admitting that they are not worthy and that they actually fear who they are inside. In our story, the path to true balance comes from self acceptance that leads to acceptance of others. Make sense?

I say he was named Fred.

Oh. That makes sense. So Beau doesn't get any bigger? Nuts to that! *plots a story of a massive tyrannical Beau...* :plot:
And he said I'm his friend! YAY!!!! :D

Really? :plot: Wonder what's going to happen...:

Beau: Beaucephalus, transform! *transform into giant robot*

...Naaah!

Whoah! Now that's cool! Too bad Artha was kinda the 'opposite' of him. :D

I bet that Artha and his friends dont get accapted into any "House" but instead thats when you get to see a Dragon Priest or even better yet a Dragon Priestess come walking out of the drak shadows and says that she or they are going to teach him the arts becvause Beau allready has what the Academt gives him. I wonder what Beau "alternate" development is goin to be.

I think, I actually hope that they'd get accepted into different house that matches their dragons color.

i'd go more with aaron

now when's someone going to write a transformers/DB crossover? :plot: :P

thses are great answers! i can't wait to here the answer to mine

Hmm, I wonder if Beau might fully master his basic ability to call on other draconium colors, possibly to the extent that he can fully transform into any of the other dragon types. We've already seen Beau partially transform into an earth class dragon, and of course he can change his skin color. I think he changed his color by himself when he became a white dragon in "Framed" (as opposed to just being painted). So maybe his new Academy-learned ability will be to fully transform himself into the other dragon types, even changing to a biped if he wants. It would be pretty cool to see Beau change into say an orange dragon. It'd be handy for sneaking around unnoticed, too. ;)

I'm not sure if that's right, but it does seem like a logical extension of what Beau can already do. I hope we get to find out some day.

WOW!!!! Those were some great answers!

I wonder about that part. If Beau did change his skin color than wouldn't Chute think he was strange and had some special ability? Wouldn't Chute question Artha were he got a sky class dragon if Beau changed colors without her seeing it? I wonder..... We'll just have to wait and see what happens in Academy! :gblast: