This is a brief story of Pearl's Lore. This is only a rough draft and there is soo much more to her story, but this is basically her backstory and how she originated. I have written this numerous times in bits and pieces, but decided to finally make a more solid story:

Before Pearl descended to Earth eons ago, she was a guardian of the gates of Souhl (pronounced Sool)- which many may see as the heavens. She served as her deity's loyal servant and guardian. She watched over the pearly gates and ensured dark entities or "demons" as some may refer to them as could not get passed the royal doors. She often romped with the other angels and angel dragons of heaven, playing and always had a very happy and joyful demeanor, but when needed she could snap to attention to guard and protect her god / deity and those she loved.

Pearl was originally all white - she didn't have the blue markings that many of you know today. Her blue patterns formed only once she fell onto Earth and became encased in the arctic icy waters for thousands of years, until she finally managed to break free. The blue markings are a symbol of the ice powers she gained for staying frozen for so long.

Pearl took physical form here on Earth when her deity sent her there on a mission to watch over the flora and fauna over a region of what many may consider to be North America. During her descent, she came across a horrible thundercloud which struck her, causing her to lose her balance during her flight down and she plummeted quickly into the icy waters of the arctic below (she was actually aimed for what is today Canada and the US, but ended up in Greenland's icy waters instead). Not knowing how to swim, she could not break free. She quickly froze in the arctic ice, and stayed encased there for thousands of years. Since she is semi mortal / immortal, she didn't die as most living beings would by being encased for so long.

During the decades that passed, her body slowly became accustomed to the icy waters around her, and she slowly over the course of time adapted and her body absorbed the power of the ice around her, formulating her ice powers. Originally, Pearl was merely a being of light - she still has her light powers which can be used to thwart and attack dark beings, and also heal and give life, but she also now exhibits her ice powers from having been encased for so long, and her body having adapted and absorbed the icy particles and waters around her.

She finally managed to break free one day - she was able to do so by exhibiting her new found ice powers to super freeze the ice until no water remained, that it became brittle and was able to quickly crumble away. She then used her powers to quickly plummet out of the ice.

When she finally broke free, she realized that her body was now adorned with beautiful blue markings, which was a sign of the icy powers inside of her. Shaking herself dry, she was left alone in the cold arctic tundra.

She found a nearby icy cavern deeper onto the mainland, where she went to make her home for quite awhile. After drying off from the wintry winds outside, she quickly remembered her mission, and went to go and try to find flora and fauna to watch over. Sadly to her dismay, she was met with vast nothingness - she was in a vast barren landscape with nothing but snow for miles and miles. She trekked back curiously back to the hole she plummeted from, and looked down into the icy waters below. She dipped her toes into it, and while it was cold to the touch, her body was quickly able to adapt to it since she had become accustomed to it for having been encased in it for so long.

She decided to dive back down into the depths, curious to see if maybe there was life down below. She was also surprised to see she was now able to hold her breath for extended periods at a time. She swam around for a bit, until she found a school of fish. The fish species she was unsure of (later on she realized it was arctic salmon), and she tried communicating with them, albeit unsuccessfully. Here in the physical realm, her heavenly voice could not be heard - and it instead came out as churrs and screeches. The fish just looked at her confusingly, but she insisted on trying to communicate in some ways with her new found fishy friends. She observed them for awhile, and found that they mostly communicated with their mannerisms when they swim - a tail flip could mean danger or a slight nudge could mean get out of the way. She quickly learned their form of communication, and became friends with many of the fishies. It was the only life form she met, for quite a long time. She would of course always need to return to the surface for air, but she often went swimming with the fishes.

She would often befriend one fish out of the many though that she would bring back with her to the cavern. So the fish would not die, she would keep the fish encased in a hollow globe of ice, filled with the cold icy waters of the arctic, and would often feed it kale and other things to keep it alive, and Pearl would often churr to it when lonely. While the fish could never understand her, it made her feel less lonely in a rather solemn landscape and life.

Her diet also primarily became fish for a long time, as it was also the fastest food resource. While she doesn't have an intestinal or reproductive system, she does have a stomach and esophagus with small extrusions that let nutrients into the body. Her new physical form, while she is still technically immortal / semi mortal (she doesn't die naturally, but can be killed, and if killed she regenerates in floof and feathers like a phoenix, but is full grown unlike a phoenix which is typically a baby on birth) still requires nutrients to give her not only energy, but also feed her ice powers and light powers in her physical form, since the Earth's atmosphere didn't get the same amount of light due to the atmosphere blocking a good percentage of it.

Pearl can return to Souhl at any point, but for now she remains on Earth in the physical plane to watch over all flora and fauna. While for years she resided in the arctic, which after awhile she did find some new life (polar bears and even arctic wolves and muskox), she one day decided to leave her abode to travel the world - which was when she finally met Hyro (her mate) and her best friend Tooth.

Pearl is able to take on two distinct physical forms - feral and anthro. In feral, she is over 20' in height, but in anthro she is the height of an average adult human female (5'6"). She took on this form to adapt to the human lifestyle once she traveled to the continental United States, and first met and interacted with man kind. She tends to be in this form 99% of the time, but can resort to her feral form or states in between (as she can also stay in between a mix of feral x anthro and all sizes in between) when needed. She does tend to still keep her fishy friends in tow, though - as fish are and were her only true friends for the longest of time. And while she has a plethora of fellow AD friends and even a fellow AD mate now, she will never part with the fishies that she once called her best pals.

When angered and ready to attack, her horns and claws go semi translucent and glow brilliant white. Her eyes also glow a bright white light. This is an example of the light powers inside of her. When she is just using her ice powers though and chooses to keep her light powers dormant, the horns and claws grow more of a brilliant light blue instead.

Copyright disclaimer: This backstory and Pearl are all copyrighted to me. Infringing of my rights will result in a cease and desist letter and legal action will be taken if needed. I have put a lot of love and time into my character and do not wish for others to copy any parts of her story without my permission