Pearlescent Dragon

*"No one had ever seen a **pearlescent dragon**, up until the day chrysalis dragons were sidled with the challenge of saving spring.*

*While nine newly discovered chrysalis dragons were battling the heat hex of the Burcadian Breeding Cave, a glittery and colorful bubble descended from the clouds. Across the Vale, every dragon, witch, and wizard stopped to watch this technicolor anomaly.*

*As the apparent bubble pierced through a low hanging cloud, it split into the magnificent wings of a **pearlescent dragon**. Some say, they heard a collective gasp escape from every living creature. The **pearlescent dragon** stretched out like a rainbow sail and craned its head downward. It unleashed a single blast of glitter and colors that inundated the cave with unmatched force. A glowing orange sphere was illuminated around the cave.*

*On an adjacent island, Kaleni could see the orange sphere materialize while peeking between blocking trilobite dragons. His jaw dropped, "I don't believe it", he blurted out.*

*"Believe what?", the young witch, Ellie, replied.*

*Kaleni simply said, "It WAS my fault."*

*The **pearlescent dragon** fired off another sparkling blast. It made contact with the glowing orange sphere and amplified it to a searing red. It pulsed hotter and brighter until it shattered into a thousand pieces.*

*The trilobite dragons dropped their guard, the **pearlescent dragon** landed, and all the chrysalis dragons stood on the ground together. They looked at each other with grins and sighed. They instantly tensed up again when they heard a rustling from inside the cave. The pearlescent dragon opened its mouth again ready to unleash beauteous fury. Before more magic breath was loosed, Kaleni came running out. The dragons relaxed.*

*"My friends, I'm so sorry this happened. Next spring will be different. I promise. If you ever get hungry, just stop by my treat farm. No questions asked."*
-Nogard's description of the **pearlescent dragon** in The Book of Dragons

The **Pearlescent Dragon** is an Epic Rift Dragon of the Chrysalis and Rift elements.

## Appearance

The pearlescent dragon has white scales that are both smooth and extremely iridescent, alongside a ruff of cream fur around it's neck. The pearlescent dragon possesses a few unusual "sails" on it's tail; a smaller one near the base of the tail, and a larger one at the tip. These tails are made of chaomancy, giving them a very weird appearance; the sails are a mix of several pastel shades of blue, pink, yellow, and purple with streaks of white, and almost look as if they're made of pure light. The pearlescent dragon's wings resemble huge butterfly wings, and are also made of chaomancy, giving them a similar appearance to the sails. The pearlescent dragon has at least twelve horns adorning it's face, each one a mix of blue, pink, and yellow. It has stubby, light blue claws.

## Abilities

### Weapons

For some inexplicable reason, presumably something chaomancy related, the pearlescent dragon is very physically strong despite having a sleek build, tiny arms, and dull claws.

### Defenses

Pearlescent dragons usually stick to "offense is the best defense" when it comes to battling, although their bright colors and huge wings can startle possible enemies.

### Other Abilities

Pearlescent dragons are not only agile fliers, but can also fly long distances without ever becoming tired. This is because their wings are made of magic, which means their wings do not have muscles to tire.

### Breath Weapon

Pearlescent dragons can breathe out a blast of sparkly, colorful chaomancy that can reveal if a person or object has been enchanted, and can even disenchant the person or object with enough force.

### Weaknesses

Despite being rather powerful offensively, pearlescent dragons are very weak defensively and, if you actually manage to land a hit on them, will go down very quickly. Most pearlescent dragons tend to insist on not killing enemies unless it's blatant that they have no other options, which can often put them in danger if their enemy isn't willing to back down.

## Habitat

### Regions

Pearlescent dragons are known to live in The Rift, but the specifics of where in the Rift they live are unknown. A pearlescent dragon was seen in New Burcadia as well, although whether or not the pearlescent dragon lived there, teleported itself there, or was a parkborn dragon that managed to break out long enough to be spotted is also unclear.

### Preferred Home

Not much is known about what kind of habitat a pearlescent dragon preferred, but they seem to prefer colorful locales with several native insects and flowers.

### Sheltering/Nesting

Parkborn pearlescent dragons have been observed building nests out of roses and toys, but it's unknown whether or not this is a normal behavior of the species or if it's caused by living in a park instead of in the wild.

## Diet

Pearlescent dragons are nullavores, meaning they do not require this "diet" you speak of. However, they do still eat Dragon Treats.

## Lifestyle

### Behavior and Personality

The few known pearlescent dragons possess wildly varying personalities, but most of them, bar a few exceptions, seem to be mostly social, optimistic, and have an instinctive desire to help others, so it's presumed that those are regular traits in a pearlescent dragon.

### Social Order

Like almost everything else about pearlescent dragons, nothing is known about this. However, parkborn pearlescent dragons have been known to form tight-knit friendships with the other dragons in their habitat, so it's theorized that pearlescent dragons do live in groups.

### Relationship to Wizards

Generally, wizards possess a positive view on pearlescent dragons, do to their beautiful appearances, likeable personalities, and role in stopping the Chrysalis Kaleidoscope disaster. In fact, pearlescent dragons are often high up on many wizards' dream dragon wishlists. However, do to pearlescent dragons being both a recently discovered and extremely rare species, they are also rather obscure. DDLA has given pearlescent dragons a rank of 1.5, do to them having the capacity to beat you up but will likely rarely attempt to beat you up; however, this ranking is subject to change do to how new the species is.

## When in a park

### Breeding

Pearlescent dragons involve a highly specific mix of a Prism Dragon with the Light trait and a Starwing Dragon with the Dark trait, which makes them almost impossible to breed.

### Habitats

Pearlescent dragons can live in Chrysalis, Rift, and Omnitat. Baby pearlescent dragons tend to prefer Chrysalis Habitats, but older ones don't really have a preference.

### How to care for

Pearlescent dragons have a variety of behaviors and as such can be very unpredictable, so be prepared to expect the unexpected when dealing with a pearlescent dragon. Baby pearlescent dragons have a bit of a problem with the cold, so it's ill advised to put them in Omnitats or Rift Habitats with a Cold theme. Pearlescent dragons are very social, so placing them in an empty habitat is a bad idea, especially if said habitat is far away from other habitats.

### Favorite Treat

Do to being nullavores, pearlescent dragons lack taste buds, and as such rate their favorite Dragon Treat based off aesthetic value alone. As a result, pearlescent dragons prefer shiny looking food, such as Blushrooms or Berry Bauble.

## History

### Discovery

Pearlescent dragons were discovered very recently. During an incident when Kaleni miscast a Heating Spell, causing a heat wave all over New Burcadia, a pearlescent dragon appeared admist the chaos and disenchanted the spell with it's breath. It is unknown why the dragon fixed the spell or why a pearlescent dragon was in New Burcadia in the first place, but it can be easily guessed that the former was because of the fact that most pearlescent dragons are helpful.

### Origin of Name

Pearlescent dragons were named for their pearlescent scales.

## Magic

Pearlescent dragons possess a mix of chaomancy, petaloudamancy, luximancy, and some very, very weak chloromancy.

## Notable Dragons

* Mer (Kaleni the Grower)
* Metamorphosis (Pente the Passionate)
* Dwatu (Ellie the Kind)