Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.

Dragons don’t communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.

Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

Abnormal and special, Dusty is a weird dragon in more ways than one. When he flies, gold dust visibly falls from his wings in a pace similar to gentle snowfall as if he is magical. At first, both he and the Gold Clan thought this was rather cool, but now Dusty thinks it is obnoxious. Luckily, he has not been the butt of any twilight sparkling jokes, as he is a gold dragon and not a vampire.