Talk:Pearl Dragon/@comment-72.200.142.94-20120606231959

Posting this here as it seems to be the most logical place since I can't find something that covers Gemstone dragons as a whole that allows comments.

If nobody has mentioned it before, it seems that the gemstone dragons thus far get their combinations with the following rules:

1. The dragons must be four different elements. (Cold/Plant/Lightning/Earth and Air/Water/Plant/Cold)

2. One of the two dragons must be related to how the dragon is obtained. (Crystal (mines) + Seaweed (the ocean)

3. The other of the two dragons must be colored similarly to the gemstone. (Lichen (greenish) + Snow (white))

4. The dragon combination cannot create an opposite dragon, and thus may only contain Plant OR Metal (even though there aren't any plant/metal dragons out yet, this is just a logical extension of my theory), Fire OR Cold, Water OR Lightning, and Air OR Earth.

I'll admit the color portion is a bit of a stretch, but perhaps it could help in guessing at the combinations slightly sooner in the coming months? For instance, with next month's Ruby dragon, it would likely be Crystal (Mine was considered, but it contains Cold and the likely source for the coloring is Fire, so Mine is less than desirable, making the combination Lightning/Earth), and Poison, Flower, Forge, or Brass, the most likely of those options being Forge or Flower.