my favorite purple dragon!
Before the game begins, the five Dragon families lived in their five Dragon Worlds in harmony. Their lives were happy and peaceful until the day a Gnorc broke the rules; Gnasty Gnorc was an unpleasant creature that the Dragons were never too fond of and in return. Gnasty resented the happy Dragon families. More than anything, he detested their beautiful, shiny jewels, which were not only nice to look at, but showed him reflections of his own ugly face every time he did so. Gnasty became such a problem that he was banished to the Dragon junkyard, the world that the Dragons weren't too fond of but they didn't see how well it would suit Gnasty. It suited Gnasty just fine. He renamed it Gnasty's World as soon as he got there and overtook Gnorc Cove and Twilight Harbour. He also built his home there, as well as an industrial settlement, which he would later keep all of the stolen treasure. Gnasty began to fool around with magic spells there and after a while, he hit on the two he wanted: a giant spell to trap all Dragons in crystal as well as a potion to animate the radiant gems and turn them into an army of Gnorc soldiers.
On a nice sunny day, when the game begins, Gnasty cast the freeze spell he had been working on after he heard what the Dragons had been saying about him on a video documentary. They had called him "ugly" and "simple" as well as "no threat to the Dragon Kingdom". The spell trapped all the dragons in crystal halfway through the filming of their documentary. He turned all the gems he could find into his willing minions. He even began turning the Dragon Worlds into his own Gnorc Worlds and thought everything was going so well, but the one little detail he didn't count on was Spyro the Dragon. Spyro was so small that the spell shot straight over his head. Now Spyro, the only unfrozen dragon, must travel the six worlds – including Gnasty's deformed industrial world – releasing all the Dragons and collecting the stolen treasure. In the meantime, Gnasty's army of minions (transformed from the Dragons' gems) are doing their best to stop him. As Spyro releases the trapped Dragons along the way, they return a favour by giving the little Dragon hints and tips up until the final conflict – where Spyro must do battle with Gnasty Gnorc.