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|name = Tortoise
|name = Tortoise
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|gender = Female
|gender = Female
|tribe = [[SeaWings]]
|tribe = [[SeaWings]]
|occupation = Briefly in charge of [[Dragonets|dragonet]] care in the [[SeaWing Council]]
|status = Deceased (died in 5011 AS)
|appeared = ''[[The Lost Heir (Book)|The Lost Heir]]''
}}'''Tortoise''' was a female [[SeaWing]] and the representative of the [[Dragonets|dragonet]] care position of [[Queen Coral]]'s [[SeaWing Council|council]]. Queen Coral brutally killed her for eating an octopus that [[Commander Shark]] had given her, instead of guarding [[Princess Auklet|Auklet]]'s and an unnamed dragonet's [[Dragon Eggs|egg]] in the [[The SeaWing Royal Hatchery|Royal Hatchery]], which led to the death of one of Coral's heirs.


==Appearance ==
|status = Deceased (died in 5,011 AS)
Tortoise had emerald-green scales{{Ref|TLH|144}} with a few olive green scales along her gills and edges of her wings, the tip of her snout, and on the edges of her webbing. Her wings, webbing, and aquatic scales are both colored in a worn, murky, yellow. Her underscales are a bleach-white color.
|death  = Disemboweled by [[Queen Coral]]


== Personality ==
|former = Dragonet care specialist of the [[SeaWing Council]]


She was irresponsible and incompetent at guarding, as she abandoned her duties in favor of sating her hunger. Just like the other SeaWings, she was afraid of Coral’s wrath upon failing to protect her eggs.
|a1App = ''[[The Lost Heir (book)|The Lost Heir]]''
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'''Tortoise''' was a female [[SeaWing]] who was introduced in ''[[The Lost Heir (book)|The Lost Heir]]''. She served as the chief representative of the [[dragonet]] care position within the [[SeaWing Council]] until she was executed by [[Queen Coral]] for failing to protect the [[Deep Palace#Royal Hatchery|Royal Hatchery]] by having all her teeth pulled out forcibly until she died.
 
== Description ==
Tortoise was skinny, with seaweed-green scales.{{Ref|TLH|144}} She had tiny white teeth.{{Ref|TLH|149}}


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
=== The Dragonet Prophecy ===
=== The Dragonet Prophecy ===
====''[[The Lost Heir (Book)|The Lost Heir]]''====
==== ''[[The Lost Heir (book)|The Lost Heir]]'' ====
While Tortoise was guarding the Royal Hatchery, Shark offered her an octopus to eat, as there was a serious rule against eating in the hatchery because the blood would attract sharks, Tortoise left the room to eat the food. In her absence, [[Orca's Statue|Orca's animus-enchanted sculpture]] destroyed one of the eggs and strangled the unhatched dragonet inside, leaving the dragonet dead.
Tortoise was first mentioned by Queen Coral while talking to [[Tsunami]], saying that she would have two more dragonets if Tortoise "does her job right".


Queen Coral later arrived with [[Princess Tsunami|Tsunami]] and [[Princess Anemone|Anemone]] to check on the eggs. When Tortoise saw the queen, she shrieked and dropped her octopus. One egg remained unharmed (Auklet's), while the other had been destroyed and the dragonet inside throttled. Tsunami then vowed that nothing would hurt Anemone. Queen Coral confronted Tortoise, who spotted Shark in the crowd of watching SeaWings and pointed at him, explaining in [[Aquatic]] that he had offered her the octopus. Queen Coral violently killed her in front of an audience as punishment for letting one of her unhatched daughters die, first by ripping out Tortoise's teeth one by one, and then clawing open her underbelly and smashing her head against the floor. Tsunami averts her head at that point. Tortoise's remains were later cleaned up by [[Princess Moray|Moray]]. This led to Tsunami promising to guard her younger sister in the last egg that hadn't been destroyed since no one else was doing it. Anemone was horrified as a result of that, and Tsunami realized that if she didn't protect her sister, then Coral would kill her too, just the way Tortoise was killed.
When Tortoise was guarding the Royal Hatchery, [[Shark]] offered her an octopus to eat. However, there was a serious rule against eating in the hatchery because the blood would attract sharks, so Tortoise left the room to eat the food. In her absence, [[Orca's statue]] destroyed one of the eggs and strangled the unhatched dragonet inside, leaving it dead.


==Trivia==
Queen Coral later arrived with Tsunami and [[Anemone]] to check on the eggs. When Tortoise saw the [[queen]], she shrieked and dropped her octopus. One egg remained unharmed, while the other had been destroyed and the dragonet inside throttled. Queen Coral confronted Tortoise, who spotted Shark in the crowd of watching SeaWings and pointed at him, explaining in [[Aquatic]] that he had offered her the octopus, as she had not eaten in days.
*Though tortoises are closely related to turtles, they are not aquatic and would not be a traditional SeaWing name. This may have been an oversight on Tui's part.
*She, like all the other SeaWings, never wanted the job of watching the eggs in the Royal Hatchery. This is probably because if any of the eggs were lost or killed (and that almost always happened, thanks to Orca's enchantment) it would enrage Coral and she would kill them very violently in public as shown in [[The Lost Heir (Graphic Novel)|The Lost Heir]].
*The [[The Lost Heir (Graphic Novel)|graphic novel]] version of Tortoise is depicted with yellow wings and yellow bioluminescent stripes, a trait not commonly found in SeaWings, whose colors usually stay in the blue to green range. The only other known SeaWing with yellow wings and glow-in-the-dark stripes is [[Snail]].


==Gallery==
Queen Coral violently killed her in front of an audience as punishment for letting one of her unhatched daughters die, first by ripping out Tortoise's teeth one by one, and then by clawing open her underbelly and smashing her head against the floor. Tsunami averted her gaze at that point. Tortoise's remains were later cleaned up by [[Moray]]. Her death led to Tsunami promising to guard her younger sister in the last egg that had not been destroyed, since no one else was willing to. Anemone was horrified, and Tsunami realized that if she did not protect her sister, then Coral would kill her too, just like she killed Tortoise.
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TortoiseTemplate.png|Reference by [[User:Platypus the SeaWing|Platypus the SeaWing]]
== Gallery ==
Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 8.20.05 AM.png|by WindstarofWindclan
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Scan 40.jpeg|By Sahel
Tortoise GN Infobox.png|Tortoise from ''[[The Lost Heir (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Mike Holmes]]
ImageoftortoisesdeathBAI.png|Tortoise's death by Sahel the Sandwing
TortoiseTemplateS978.png|Reference by {{U|Spirit978}}
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Tortoise Ref.png|Tortoise Ref- QueenClam
TortoiseTheSeaWing.jpg|Tortoise, By PhoenixTheAnimus
Dead tort.png|Dead Tortise BY FISH
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<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Mike Holmes]], from the [[:Category:Graphic novels|Wings of Fire Graphic Novels]]">
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== References ==
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Latest revision as of 17:22, 30 October 2025

Tortoise was a female SeaWing who was introduced in The Lost Heir. She served as the chief representative of the dragonet care position within the SeaWing Council until she was executed by Queen Coral for failing to protect the Royal Hatchery by having all her teeth pulled out forcibly until she died.

Description

Tortoise was skinny, with seaweed-green scales.[1] She had tiny white teeth.[2]

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

Tortoise was first mentioned by Queen Coral while talking to Tsunami, saying that she would have two more dragonets if Tortoise "does her job right".

When Tortoise was guarding the Royal Hatchery, Shark offered her an octopus to eat. However, there was a serious rule against eating in the hatchery because the blood would attract sharks, so Tortoise left the room to eat the food. In her absence, Orca's statue destroyed one of the eggs and strangled the unhatched dragonet inside, leaving it dead.

Queen Coral later arrived with Tsunami and Anemone to check on the eggs. When Tortoise saw the queen, she shrieked and dropped her octopus. One egg remained unharmed, while the other had been destroyed and the dragonet inside throttled. Queen Coral confronted Tortoise, who spotted Shark in the crowd of watching SeaWings and pointed at him, explaining in Aquatic that he had offered her the octopus, as she had not eaten in days.

Queen Coral violently killed her in front of an audience as punishment for letting one of her unhatched daughters die, first by ripping out Tortoise's teeth one by one, and then by clawing open her underbelly and smashing her head against the floor. Tsunami averted her gaze at that point. Tortoise's remains were later cleaned up by Moray. Her death led to Tsunami promising to guard her younger sister in the last egg that had not been destroyed, since no one else was willing to. Anemone was horrified, and Tsunami realized that if she did not protect her sister, then Coral would kill her too, just like she killed Tortoise.

References

  1. The Lost Heir, page 144
  2. The Lost Heir, page 149


SeaWings
Queens

Present: Coral
Historical: LagoonPearl

Royalty
(Present)

AnemoneAukletCeruleanFinGillMorayOctopusOrcaSharkTsunamiTurtle

Royalty
(Historical)

AlbatrossClearpoolCowrieCurrentEelFathomHumpbackMantaReefRippleSapphireScallopSplash

Jade Mountain

AnemoneBarracudaPikeSnailTsunamiTurtle

Other Dragons
(Present)

AbaloneFlounderHerringKelpLagoonNautilusPearlPiranhaRiptideSnailSnapperSquidTempestTortoiseUrchinWebsWhirlpool

Other Dragons
(Historical)

IndigoLionfishWharf

Hybrids

Typhoon

Folklore

Droplet

Kingdom

Bay of a Thousand ScalesDeep PalaceSummer Palace

Kingdom
(Historical)

Island Palace

Society

AquaticBombing of the Summer PalaceRoyal SeaWing MassacreSeaWing CouncilTalons of Power ceremony


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