Light Without Heat
In play18 seconds
Coldlight, taken from a cinder moth: a Crystal Wyrm in the Moth Galleries learns a trait from what it kills and carries a light that gives no warmth.
Crystal Wyrm
Route up · the mineral seamOwns · rockBorn holding · stone-softeningSignature · charge
Does not use tunnels; makes them. The slowest lineage to the surface and the only one that arrives underneath you, which is what a wall is least ready for.
Growth
Four stages, 0.20 m to 0.90 m
It grows through four stages, fed and irreversible. A hatchling is not a smaller cute version; it is the adult’s anatomy at a hatchling’s size.
| stage | height | of adult height |
|---|---|---|
| hatchling | 0.20 m | 22% |
| juvenile | 0.40 m | 44% |
| subadult | 0.66 m | 73% |
| adult | 0.90 m | 100% |
The adult, beside the other lineages
- Western Drake2.60 m
- Fire Wyvern1.80 m
- Eastern Lung1.40 m
- Crystal Wyrm0.90 m
- Thicket Dragonet0.55 m
What it can do
Its own attack: charge
It can do these, and one of them is its own — the signature attack, which is a different shape from every other lineage’s rather than a different colour:
resonancehoverstalkguardcharge
The other lineages’ own attacks:
- Western Drake · fire
- Fire Wyvern · fire_spit
- Eastern Lung · gale_breath
- Thicket Dragonet · spark_puff
The model
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- Triangles
- 8,384
- Adult height
- 0.90 m
- Built
- 20 September 2026
On film
The Crystal Wyrm on film
Two films are named after this lineage. Every film is in the film library.
The Crown Sings
In play18 seconds
Crystal against tunnel swine in the Moth Galleries. The Crystal Wyrm does not breathe fire: it rings, and the resonance does the rest.
