Jade Mountain Academy

(The winglets are not to be confused with Winglets, which are short stories in the Wings of Fire series.)

Jade Mountain Academy is an intertribal school located within Jade Mountain, founded by the dragonets of destiny after they ended the War of SandWing Succession. The school opened and accepted students from all tribes six months after the end of the war, dividing them into five winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, and the Quartz Winglet, each of which includes one dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. With the exclusion of Peril, groups of two or three dragonets from the same winglet share a sleeping cave, making them clawmates. Tsunami is the current headmistress of the school.

Description

The school is located within Jade Mountain, which has fang-shaped twin peaks. The main entrance to the school is on a mountaintop, consisting of a wide ledge with multiple trees. There is only one other entrance, which is located through Stonemover's cave. The tunnels are dimly lit with the only source of light coming from glass globes of various colors that hang from the ceiling which gives the effect as if it was outdoors in the sunlit canopy of the rainforest instead of underground. Some tunnels are lined with plants growing out of the cracks in the rock or small pots of dirt, green vines covering the ceiling and winding around the glass globes, and a rivulet of water trickling down the center of the tunnel.

The caves of the school founders, as well as Peril's, are all located away from those of the students. Peril's cave is located across the main central cave from Clay's.

Notable features

Art cave

The art cave from Moon Rising (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

The art cave is the room where students learn all sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery, glass-working, metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The cave is usually flooded with sunlight, combing through holes in the walls or ceiling. The room is filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice and wooden dragon sculptures with green, blue, or orange beads for eyes placed on little stone shelves. The room has brushes, paint, blank scrolls, clay for sculpting, wood, glass, metal, beads, and a loom. On the ceiling, a giant metal sculpture made of gleaming copper wire wound around the ceiling, looking like flames. Several clear glass globes are suspended from it, glowing with firelight. It is described by Kinkajou to look like if a couple of RainWings just emoted all over it.

Great Hall

The Great Hall is the unofficial entrance of Jade Mountain Academy. The cave has a dimmer light in comparison to that of outside, with enough room to fit four hundred dragons inside comfortably and still have enough space for more to fly overhead. There is sunlight pouring into the cave, Illuminating the craggy walls and rippled ceiling, with twisting stalactites that sometimes reach the floor, forming twisting columns, and outgrowths of stalagmites that create shadowy corners. A huge bronze gong hangs against the back wall, with three flying dragons carved into its surface. A map of the school can be seen in the middle of the room. When the school first opened, a huge banner made of woven green vines reading "Welcome, students!" in giant purple-and-white flowers hung from two stalactites. Two tunnel openings form along the cave's left wall, with two more on the right wall. Next to each entrance, a map is hung, displaying tunnel routes to help students find their way around the huge caves.

Healing center

The healing center contains bandages and a colored diagram of a MudWing, showing where the muscles are located in the dragon body. It includes a class called Herbs and Healing, requested by Peregrine and Tamarin especially.

History cave

The history cave was where Webs taught history to the students of the academy. It was described to be covered in maps, each marked with a different year, and with stacks of scrolls that overflowed the wooden racks provided. Sora destroyed the cave with dragonflame cactus in an attempt to kill Icicle during the events of Moon Rising, forcing the history class to be relocated to a different cave. The new cave is located several corridors away from the previous one. It includes a skylight, and it is slightly dark, damp, and chilly, with one exit and scrolls piled in corners.

Library

The entrance of the library starts as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes such as "Knowledge is a flame in the darkness" and "The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom." At the end of the hall, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present. The light is the result of the sun shining through large translucent, semi-transparent leaves placed over windows. One window was torn open by Icicle who broke out in Moon Rising. Scrolls are arranged all over the cave, in cubby holes on the walls, on racks, and in cylinders. Every corner had a spot to curl up and read in, sometimes a rock ledge, sometimes a pile of moss, sometimes a bed of reeds, and sometimes carpets. Sunlight comes down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There is a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the center where Starflight manages the scrolls. Starflight has stamps of every student's name that he stamps on a scroll slot/card.

Library stamps are part of the library system in Jade Mountain Academy. Every scroll in the place has a wooden stamp, which, if taken out, is stamped on the parchment corresponding to the borrowing student. When returned, their library stamps are stamped on the first one to show that the student returned it.

The library stamps are described as small rectangles of wood, about as long as two claws, and with the student's name carved backward in raised letters on one side. Every student gets a library stamp when they visit the library at Jade Mountain Academy. Starflight keeps them behind his desk, and he hands them to students when they see him for the first time since arrival.

Starflight is currently working on making scrolls that blind dragons can read. He is also working on making non-flammable scrolls.

Mourning cave

The mourning cave has a tall, arched roof, towering slender pillars of pale gray rock, and windows and skylights that are open to the air. Carnelian's body was wrapped in white silk during the mourning period, and the cave entrance is marked by a boulder.

Museum

Jade Mountain Academy was mentioned to have a museum, with the only known object within it is a piece of the IceWing ranking wall gifted by Queen Snowfall.

Music cave

The music cave is a vast, round cave filled with various instruments, including mbiras, harps, marimbas, maracas, drums, didgeridoos, and possibly an upright bass, with a skylight above it. It is designed so that sound bounces around the cave with smooth walls.

Prey center

The prey center from Moon Rising (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

The prey center, set up by Clay, is a large cave open to the sky on one side, looking over a mossy slope, with a low wall of rocks across the bottom of the opening to keep prey from escaping. There is a fast-flowing river sweeping along the wall opposite to the opening that flows through an arch into the next cave. There is a tall boulder in the middle of the cave. It was often described as chaotic due to students and animals running around yelling, shouting, catching prey, or eating. It is usually filled with animal prey with a pile of fish hunted by expeditions, and a pile of rainforest fruit near the river for RainWing students. It can be accessed through corridors leading from the residents' sleeping caves.

Sleeping caves

The sleeping caves are where the students of Jade Mountain Academy sleep at night or rest during the day in-between classes if they chose to do so. The sleeping caves are connected to one, or both, of the hallways to the left of the Great Hall. A few stalactites hang over the doorway like jagged teeth of Moonwatcher's cave. Fire-lit glass globes of various colors are strung across the ceiling illuminating the cave. Two globes are rested on either side of the door and another at Moon's level across the cave. The door makes up one wall of the cave while a sleeping spot had been arranged along each of the other three walls. One is a bare rock ledge, another a pile of rainforest leaves and mosses, and the third is a woven green hammock ingeniously suspended from the cave ceiling as if each bed was deliberately designed with different dragons in mind. Five mahogany scroll racks are arranged around the cave about the height of Moonwatcher's foreleg, polished until they are smooth as scales. There are two scroll racks on either side of the door.

Stonemover's cave

This cave is where Stonemover is located. There is a torch flickering from a post near Stonemover's head. Students are welcome to come and visit Stonemover if they please. The cave is shown to be big enough for Darkstalker to fit inside, but just barely.

Sunny's office

Sunny's office is part sleeping-cave, part office, with a bundle of blankets tied neatly away in one back corner. Three low tables arranged in a semicircle take up the majority of the room, scattered with paper, ink, small slates for announcements, and maps. There are two openings in the walls where the sunlight spills across the room, and the rest of the walls are covered in blue, white, and gold SandWing tapestries, drawings of Thorn, and to-do lists with half of their items crossed off. There is a small, locked chest next to Sunny's blankets that contains jewelry.

Underground lakes

There are multiple underground lakes in Jade Mountain. The largest underground lake Turtle took Moonwatcher to is deep inside the mountain, and as of Escaping Peril, the SeaWing students have made the space their exclusive clubhouse and are there quite frequently. It sits in the middle of a huge cavern studded with stalactites, with craggy boulders covered with spongy, bluish moss, and a hole big enough for dragons to fly through at the top. The moons are visible through the hole, which casts silvery-green light throughout the cavern.

Weapons cave

The weapons cave contains a single locked wooden box in the middle of a stone floor. The box contains three knives, one dagger, and a large, heavy stick.

History

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Brightest Night

The epilogue featured the founding of the school and the founders discussing who would attend the school.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising

Jade Mountain Academy was the main setting of the book. During Moonwatcher's time at the school, she met Darkstalker, who had been trapped under Agate Mountain for centuries. She also came across a murder mystery there and sought to find the dragon who caused an explosion in the history cave. By the end of the book, Moonwatcher and the rest of the Jade Winglet left the school to find Winter's brother.

Winter Turning

At the beginning of the book, Winter convinced Turtle to stay back at the academy. He also attempted to convince the rest of the Winglet to go back, but to no avail. After that, the group departed from the academy and started their search.

Escaping Peril

Queen Ruby visited the academy to perform the SkyWing death ritual for Carnelian. There, Scarlet entered with the seemingly decapitated head of Glory, which turned out to be an enchanted MudWing head. Tsunami, furious, chased after the former queen. Peril, having been present and wanting to stop Scarlet, left the academy with Turtle.

Talons of Power

After Darkstalker had been set free by Peril, Turtle went to warn Jade Mountain Academy and Anemone about him. Soon after, Darkstalker arrived and decided spend some time in the main entrance. During his time at the academy, he gave some NightWing students superpowers, like mind reading. Darkstalker eventually left the academy to find the NightWings, to which Turtle followed him.

Darkness of Dragons

After watching Turtle and Moon follow Darkstalker, Anemone, and the NightWing students leave Jade Mountain Academy, Qibli and Winter headed to history class. During class, Qibli realized that Ostrich was missing when her Winglet was paired with the Jade and Gold Winglets; with Onyx missing as well. After he provided the teachers with duplicates of his enchanted earring and Sunny located Ostrich in the Scorpion Den, Qibli and Winter left the academy to rescue her from the Talons of Power. The Jade Winglet and Anemone eventually return to Jade Mountain Academy where Snowfall had brought the IceWing army to confront Darkstalker and the NightWings to punish them for trying to wipe them out with a plague. The NightWings and IceWings then fought each other in the Battle of Jade Mountain, during which Anemone tried to trick the NightWings into fleeing, but failed when Darkstalker told them to stay. The battle finally ended when Anemone used her magic to connect the minds of the NightWings and IceWings and have them understand each other's feelings, after which they were transported to their respective palaces. In the epilogue, Peril was officially the SkyWing of the Jade Winglet; while Turtle and Kinkajou discussed about his writing and her feelings for him.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Flames of Hope

Tsunami told Luna that she was headmistress at Jade Mountain Academy and did not need any queen's permission to share Pyrrhian secrets when she gave Luna the dreamvisitor.

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Field Guides

A Guide to the Dragon World

In the opening letter of the guide, the dragonets wrote that Jade Mountain Academy was opened in order to fight narrow-minded thinking.

In the MudWing chapter, Starflight reflected on the scrolls he put in the academy library. Sepia mentioned the academy several times in her notes on Wisemind's The Slugslike Qualities of MudWings. After seeing Sepia's notes, Starflight sent Fatespeaker to count how many MudWing-written scrolls were in the library and she only found two. This prompted Starflight to give Sepia the task of writing her own scroll for the academy library. In her scroll, Sepia mentioned choosing to attend the academy with her brother, Newt.

The academy was later featured in the opening letter of the SeaWing chapter where Coral mentioned the academy several times. The academy was then mentioned in Turtle's letter to Starflight along with Fin's letter to Turtle, along with Anemone's letter to Tamarin.

In the RainWing chapter, Kinkajou mentioned Jade Mountain Academy in her short story for her creative writing project. The academy was also briefly mentioned by Starflight when he explained that Python's letter to Jacaranda was found by a pair of students.

In the NightWing chapter, Moon mentioned Jade Mountain Academy in her scroll The Truth About NightWing Powers, suggesting that there could be a class for mindreaders and seers at the academy in the future.

In the IceWing chapter, Snowfall dedicated a piece of the ranking wall to the academy museum for the students to study. Mink's application letter to the academy was also featured and mentioned the academy many times. The academy was mentioned again in Caribou's In the Village-of-the-Plentiful-Seals where they said that their daughter, Caribou, would be attending the academy a year after their scroll was written.

In the introduction of the Pantalan section, Cricket mentioned the academy to Starflight when she explained that she thought it would be a great idea to include Pantalan students in the future.

Gallery

• Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels
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  Infirmary
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  Underground caverns
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  Art studio
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  Cavern tunnels
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  Suntime ledge
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  Webs's classroom
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  Library reading nook
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  Library
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  Tsunami's classroom
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  Cavern tunnels
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  Prey center
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  Library
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  Moonwatcher's sleeping cave
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  Sleeping cave hallway
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  Great Hall
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  Mourning cave