Gold (CrystalWing)

Gold is a female CrystalWing belonging to L1quidMarbl3.
==Description==
Gold has hard, pale brass-yellow-colored scales, making her resemble pyrite, and a white spine, horns, and underbelly. Her eyes and the diamond-shaped scales on her neck are dark orange.
==Personality==
Gold has unorthodox CrystalWing thinking.
==History==
===Past===
Gold hatched in 5,005 A.S. to Stone and Aragonite in Pyrite Kin, the scientific kin of the CrystalWings. Since she hatched on a Pyrite's Day during spring, Gold was named after the coloration of Pyrite, the CrystalWing goddess of forests and protection.
During her dragonethood, Gold was taught how to use the forest to its advantage and how to survive on her own, if she ever got lost from her family.
When Gold was 4-years in 5,008 A.S., her family uprooted their entire lives from Pyrite Kin to live in Citrine Kin, the most religious kin of the CrystalWings, to worship the CrystalWing gods after her parents were "convicted" by the Dragons of Stone.
===Present===
====The Dragonet Prophecy====
When the Dragonet Prophecy was initially circulating in the CrystalWing tribe's consciousness in 5,001 A.S., Gold had not hatched as her parents were still dating. The majority of the CrystalWings vehemently opposed the Prophecy; and the religious order of Citrine Kin even started to believe that Pyrite was turning her back on the CrystalWings during that time. On the night that Clay, Tsunami, Glory, Starflight, and Sunny hatched in autumn 5,005 A.S., the CrystalWings desperately begged Pyrite to defend the tribe from the Dragonets.
=====The Dragonet Prophecy=====
When the events of the Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire (series) arc 1) began to unfold, the CrystalWings became armed to the teeth when they heard that Scarlet, the SkyWing queen, suddenly disappeared and that there were five Dragonets searching for their original homes. The Citrine Kin CrystalWings were ordered by the Alpha to be ready in case Clay, Tsunami, Glory, Starflight, and Sunny (accidentally) flew into CrystalWing territory, in order to ward off the evil that seemed to encroach to their home.
Gold did not believe that the Dragonets were evil, as the religious dragons said, as she believed they were adolescents that had a heavy burden and were trying to figure themselves out (based on what she heard around the tribe).
===Present===
====The Jade Mountain Prophecy====
One year after the events of The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire arc 1), Darkstalker returned to Pyrrhia.
====The Lost Continent Prophecy====
=====The Dangerous Gift=====
Immediately after the events of The Jade Prophecy (Wings of Fire (series) arc 2), the entirety of Pantala came to Pyrrhia.
Even though SilkWings have lived alongside them for a long time, the CrystalWings didn't expect to see two other species (HiveWings and LeafWings) native to Pantala come to Pyrrhia.
=====The Land Across=====
Gold, Stripestreak, and the rest of the CrystalWings were enslaved by the HiveWings after Pantala conquering the Dragon Planet.
=====The Flames of Hope=====
While Gold does not appear in The Flames of Hope, it is mentioned in the novel that all dragons are descended from a species of proto-dragon, which is strikingly similar to the (genetic) relationship between fire lizards and dragons in Dragonriders of Pern (series).
==Species Adaptations==
Gold has typical CrystalWing species adaptations/"abilities" - breathing a fire-like mist that crystallizes anything it touches and "clear sight" (knowing the true difference between appearances and reality, lie detection).
==Relations==
===Aragonite===
Aragonite is Gold's father.
===Stone===
Stone is Gold's mother.
===Stripestreak===
Stripestreak is a male SilkWing, and is Gold's ally. He first appeared in CrystalWing territory after he escaped the Hives during the events Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift (2021). Stripestreak was one of the SilkWings who traveled with the LeafWings to Pyrrhia (alongside Aiko and Clearsight); however, he stumbled upon the CrystalWings after arriving in Sanctuary and finding some CrystalWings in the city. He first appeared in the tribe in the territory of the Citrine Kin, and his presence alerted the religious order of Citrine Kin that something was happening outside the Kingdom.
In Wings of Fire: The Flames of Hope (2022), he decides not to return to Pantala since he does not want to be reminded of the Hives, and is now a permanent resident of the CrystalWing Kingdom.
==Trivia==
*Gold's coloration and naming was inspired by pyrite, a sulfide mineral known as "fool's gold" due to it's resemblance to gold.
*The events of The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire books 1-5) occurred when Gold was 6-years-old (5,011 A.S.), when Gold was akin to an 18-year-old human adolescent. The events of The Jade Mountain Prophecy (Wings of Fire (series) books 6-10) and The Lost Continent Prophecy (Wings of Fire (series) books 11-15) occurred when Gold was 7-years-old (5,012 A.S.), when Gold was akin to an 21-year-old human.
**L1quid's (current) system for converting dragon to human years is multiplying the dragon's age by a factor of 3. Their previous (and discontinued) system was multiplying the dragon's age by a factor of 2 (so that the dragon would become an adult at age 10, rather than age 7 like in the books).
*Gold considers a religious worship service to Dragons of Stone in a Dragon of Stone temple to be a statue worship, and believes that religious worship should happen in places that do not have the physical embodiment of a god in the vicinity. (In a nutshell, she believes that religious worship should occur in nature, not in a specific house of worship.)
*Gold's theme song was originally Lights Will Guide You Home (Coldplay mashup) by Calb on YouTube (due to L1quid's love of the band), but was changed after L1quid attended one of the band's concert livestreams on 10/28/2022 and saw that they injected statements that L1quid disagrees with into the show's second half.
**The link to the mashup will be kept on the page so others can listen to it, if they want to.
*SilkWing names: "stripestreaks" are a species of butterflies in the Arawacus genus
*CrystalWing names: "aragonite" is a carbonite mineral and one of the most common crystal forms of calcium carbonate
==Gallery==
File:CrystalWing Tribe Sigil .png|CrystalWing sigil by Shadowstar37 (Wikia)
File:Gold the crystalwing (crystalwing (headshot) by mythcats (wikia)).png|Gold headshot (CrystalWing headshot base by Mythcats on Wikia)
File:Gold (crystalwing) (crystalwing (base) by shadowstar37 (wikia)).png|Gold fullbody (base by Shadowstar37 on Wikia)
==External Links==
*Lights Will Guide You Home (Coldplay mashup) - YouTube
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