Editing Periodic Table of Dragons (section)

==Gold 79==
Gold Dragons are noble creatures indeed, their fiery gleam recorded in countless stories across time. Heavy, solid beasts, they can fly though rather poorly, and prefer to spend their time on the ground when possible. 

They're great swimmers, and no matter how long they spend in the water, their scales never tarnish in the slightest, as do some other Metallics. 

The males, upon reaching maturity, seek a place to install a "beacon" made by carefully laying their shed scales over a surface exposed to the sun. This beacon serves to attract females and prove the value of the male as a mate. A large, shiny beacon is proof of the health and strength of the one who made it and defended it--or the one who took it. Golds like all shiny things and particularly appreciate the work of mortals. More than one skilled goldsmith got rich by embellishing a Gold's lair.

Though valuable and hunted, unlike the Borons, a Gold is perfectly capable of smashing human-sized enemies asunder, though they come off decidedly the weaker in clashes with Iron, Tungsten, Titanium, and other such draconics, as their scales bend under the pressure those dragons can produce. The true strength of the Gold is its ability to produce and channel enormous blasts of electrical energy, enough to sear flesh from bone and turn bone to charcoal, though they still cannot match their Silver cousins' utterly titanic electrical capacity. 

The Golds fear Mercury dragons above all else, whose cloying touch will slough their flesh off their bones like so much pudding. 

When crossbred with Silver or Copper dragons, the half-breeds are not much stronger than either parent, and sometimes weaker, but they attain an incredible array of subtle variations in hue, with rose, whitish, greenish-yellow and reddish hues all observed. These dragons are commonly considered among the most beautiful of all Metallic dragonkind, across the various species, and often become something rather like cultural idols.