Gembreaker

**Gembreaker** appeared in 2021 TV series called *Dragons: The Nine Realms*. The Gembreaker is a medium-sized Tracker Class dragon that first appeared in *Dragons: The Nine Realms*.

As hatchlings, Gembreaker dragons are small and round with small crystal horns and clubbed tails.

Gembreakers bear a striking resemblance to beetles, with their wing shells and shared flight patterns. Their back is adorned with these wing shells, allowing them to maneuver through the air in a similar fashion. One of their most prominent features is a large rhino-like horn, composed of crystal, that is remarkably thick and can reach the size of a human. Additionally, Gembreakers possess crystals on their elbows and tails, taking on the shape of morning-stars. These distinct characteristics suggest a primary lineage tracing back to Gronkles and Rumblehorns.

As seen in *Rise of Berk*, Titan Wing Gembreakers are very similar to their Broad Wing counterparts, although they are larger, and their scales and carapace become a magenta color with hints of gold. Their horns also change color, becoming gold.

Gembreakers are extremely territorial and can be aggressive towards humans and other dragons. Their hostile nature is what makes other dragons wisely avoid them. Larger sized Gembreakers will even terrorize smaller dragons, even their own species. Plowhorn was injured because she was being bullied and attacked by the larger ones of her kind. However due to their social nature they can be befriended and are pretty easy going when they do not feel threatened.

The Gembreaker demonstrates a unique ability to consume fragments from the crystalline formations found within the Hidden World.

According to Rise of Berk, Gembreakers enjoy breaking through crystals despite being able to easily go around them.

## Powers and Abilities

* **Firepower:** Gembreakers fire a highly flammable, exploding loogie blast, remarkably similar in shape to the lava blast of a Gronckle. When in contact with a dragon's wings it will temporarily set them on fire and briefly render them unable to fly.
* **Tracking:** Gembreakers are said to possess extreme tracking skills, likely due to their similarity and possible relationship to Rumblehorn dragons. They can use their sense of smell to track other dragons that have passed after some time, shown by Plowhorn when she picked the scent of Thunder and of the Titan Wing Skrill. Their sense of smell is so heightened that it can feel the difference between rocks and Catastrophic Quaken eggs and follow from vast distances and Realms the Gem Dragonsite, as shown by Plowhorn.
* **Stealth:** As shown by Plowhown, if the dragon sits down and covers its body with its back, it looks like a rock formation, which can help it to hide from people or other dragons. Its colors also helps it easily to blend with the crystal formations from the Hidden Realms if it just stays immobile.
* **Strength and Combat:** Gembreakers are very powerful dragons, capable of easily breaking through crystal pillars with their horns. A Night Light's electrical plasma blast can weaken them temporarily, but they can shake off its electrical effects moments later. Gembreakers are tough and combative dragons who will stand up against any intruder, either alone or forming into groups. As shown by Plowhorn, Gembreakers are strong enough to pull a van, ram through two fully grown men with ease and support on her back the weight of two teenagers and a young Featherhide.
* **Endurance and Stamina:** Gembreakers will relentlessly follow any intruder on land, crashing through crystals, and in the air flying after the opponent. Plowhorn can easily carry her rider on her back, and had also been taking physical offense from three other larger Gembreakers for an unknown period of time. Even when she was wounded, she fought to keep the riders away from approaching her.
* **Crystal Horn:** The Gembreaker possesses a secondary weapon in the form of a potent crystal horn. This horn is adept at fracturing and separating shards from sizable crystals during feeding activities, as well as serving as an offensive tool against adversaries. Composed of a crystalline substance, the horn exhibits the ability to shatter entire formations of gems when the Gembreaker charges at them with great velocity. Additionally, the crystal horn possesses reflective properties, allowing it to function akin to a beacon of light. Notably, the Gembreaker can employ its horn as a conduit for conducting and manipulating lightning, as exemplified by the actions of a Gembreaker named Plowhorn. As demonstrated by Shard Picker, Gembreakers are able to stick crystals onto their horns through unknown methods.
* **Intelligence:** Gembreakers are shown to have relatively high intelligence, as demonstrated when three larger Gembreakers collaborated to block any escape route from the riders and their dragons. Even Plowhorn came up with the idea to collapse a gem pillar onto the antagonistic Gembreakers to defeat them as well as leading the others to magma breather dragon to help seal off the cave. She also was the one that recognized the Catastrophic Quaken eggs.
* **Social Nature:** They will cooperate to find and fight any intruder that they might find in their territory. They will also work with other species like Featherhides, Razorwhips, and Fault Rippers to fight off a dragon much larger than them as seen in The Sky Torcher.
* **Speed and Agility:** Despite their large physical size, these beings exhibit remarkable speed, effortlessly keeping pace with Thunder on the ground and air, and even surpassing other dragons, such as Plowhorn, known for their exceptional flying abilities.
* **Swimming:** As shown in “In Too Deep”, Gembreakers are known to be good swimmers, as Plowhorn was able to swim at high speed and hold her breath for quite a while, Gembreakers do have a limited lung capacity, and will drown unless they have access to air.

### Weaknesses

* **Cold Environments:** Despite a Gembreaker's nose being pretty strong it does have its weakness according to D'Angelo in "Deep Freeze", Plowhorn's nose doesn't last long in the cold despite her doing well in the Ice Realm.