When a foal is born in Cloudsdale he or she is blessed with the three gifts exclusively to the pegasi race that the other two cannot claim as their own, the gift wings, the gift of flight, and the gift of cloudwalking. When it was Steelbolt's time to enter the world he was denied the first two and only received the third. Bullied and unnoticed by others colts and fillies, Steelbolt had found comfort in a book that inspired him to challenge fate and achieve his denied gifts by means that Equestria believes to be myth.