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|quote  = Hope. I like that.
|quote  = I was never a vengeful [[dragons|dragon]]. You get that from your father. Calm down, it's true. But it doesn't make sense to punish the [[IceWing]] tribe for what happened to us all those centuries ago, [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]]. [[Queen Diamond]] is long gone. The [[NightWing-IceWing War|war]] should have ended then. Time has moved on without us and we should let it, not drag it back into the blood and fire of our old fight. I remember what [[Arctic]] did during our escape from the [[Ice Kingdom]]. I understand why they were so angry, and why he never really recovered. I'm sorry you had to live a life shaped by that anger.
|speaker = to [[Qibli]] about the name he suggested for her and the end of ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|speaker = Hope to Darkstalker, ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
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{{Character
|name       =  
|name     = Hope
|image     = Nightwing sandwing hybrid for rbdoucette by lunarnightmares981-dbozaka.png
|image     = <gallery>
|age       = Over 2,000 years old, though has not grown for the time she was frozen
Foeslayer Gn1.jpg|Graphic Novel
|gender     = Female
HopeTemplateSkyla.png|Reference
|tribe     = [[NightWings]]
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|occupation = Member of the air defense team of the ancient Night Kingdom (formerly)
|age       = Over 2,013 years old
|residence  = [[Rainforest Kingdom]]
|gender   = Female
|status     = Alive
|tribe     = [[NightWings]]
|Relation1  = Mother
|powers    =  
|RName1    = [[Prudence]]
 
|Relation2  = Husband
|status   = Alive (as of ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'')
|RName2    = [[Prince Arctic]]
|Relation3  = Son
|RName3    = [[King Darkstalker|Darkstalker]] (Peacemaker)
|Relation4  = Daughter
|RName4    = [[Whiteout]]
|Relation5  = Mother-In-Law
|RName5    = [[Queen Diamond]]
|Relation6  = Son-In-Law
|RName6    = [[Thoughtful]]
|Relation7  = Granddaughters
|RName7    = [[Shadowhunter]], [[Eclipse]], [[Fierceclaws]] (in a possible future)
|Relation8  = Descendants
|RName8    = [[Stonemover]], [[Princess Sunny|Sunny]]
|appeared  = ''[[Runaway]], [[Darkstalker (Legends)]], [[Winter Turning]], [[Escaping Peril]], [[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|mentioned  =
}}
'''Hope (Foeslayer)''' is a female [[NightWings|NightWing]] who first appeared near the end of ''[[Winter Turning]]'', ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)]]'' and ''[[Runaway]]''. She was one of the main causes of the rivalry between the NightWing and [[IceWings]] tribes, as well as the mother of [[King Darkstalker|Darkstalker]] and [[Whiteout]]. Foeslayer also described herself as scatterbrained and forgetful in ''Runaway''. After Foeslayer took off her enchanted protective earring during an argument with [[Prince Arctic|Arctic]], she was taken and locked in the [[Diamond Caves]] as a prisoner by [[Queen Diamond]] for thousands of years as revenge for taking Prince Arctic away from the Ice Kingdom. However, during the Diamond Trials with Winter and his brother Hailstorm, she was released from the caves, as Winter thought it cruel to have kept her there for so long only to die over and over again. After she fled during an accident involving Winter and Peril, her current whereabouts are still unknown. She and her son, Darkstalker, however, were reunited at the end of ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''. With [[Kinkajou]]'s spell, Darkstalker was transformed into a one-year old dragonet and given the name [[Peacemaker]] without his past memories or former identity. Foeslayer then decided to change her name to Hope and now lives with Peacemaker in the Rainforest Kingdom.


Even though Foeslayer was trapped in the Diamond Caves for thousands of years, Queen Diamond enchanted her curse to only allow her to age when she was unfrozen. Foeslayer speculated that the plan was to keep her there for as long as possible, so she could suffer almost indefinitely. Thus, Foeslayer still has near the same mind and body as she did when she was first locked up.
|current  =
|former    =
Member of [[Queen Vigilance]]'s council,<br />
Captive of [[Queen Diamond]]


==Appearance==
|Relation1 = Mother
In ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]'', Foeslayer is described as having black scales, with dark green underscales for her underbelly. Her eyes were said to be "a little closer to dark green than black". She has also been said to have a smooth, long, neck and body form. Before her incarceration for thousands of years in the Ice Kingdom, she wore a small diamond earring given to her by Prince Arctic the Icewing when they met outside.{{Ref|DSLp}}{{Ref|DSLk|140}}
|RName1    = [[Prudence]]
|Relation2 = Husband
|RName2    = [[Arctic]]
|Relation3 = Son
|RName3    = [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]], [[Peacemaker]]
|Relation4 = Daughter
|RName4    = [[Whiteout]]
|Relation5 = Mother-in-Law
|RName5    = [[Diamond]]
|Relation6 = Descendants
|RName6    = [[Stonemover]], [[Sunny]]


== Biography ==
|a2App    =  
''[[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]'',<br />
''[[Escaping Peril (book)|Escaping Peril]]'',<br />
''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|a3App    =  
|a3Men    = ''[[The Dangerous Gift]]''
|a2Men    =  


=== ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]'' ===
|leApp    = ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
Foeslayer is first introduced in the prologue when she pushes her way past Arctic and Snowflake to the balcony. She is shown talking and jumping around to try to warm herself up. She eventually annoys Snowflake into leaving. After learning the reason why [[Snowflake]] was so irritable was that Arctic forgot her name, she teased Arctic about it. The two proceeded to talk and flirt for a while. Eventually, to stay and talk with her for a while longer, Arctic enchants his diamond earring to keep the wearer warm and gave it to Foeslayer, although he was aware that doing so was defying the IceWing heritage and law of only using animus magic once in a lifetime. This made her very surprised and worried about Arctic's soul.
|leMen    =  


In the first chapter, Foeslayer is heard arguing with Arctic over what would be best for their two eggs. When the first one hatches, she names the dragonet Darkstalker. Arctic says that it sounds creepy, like he's stalking in the darkness, but she retorts that it sounds heroic, like he's stalking the darkness and chasing the shadows away. Arctic reluctantly agrees to the name but claims he gets to name the other [[Dragonets|dragonet]], their daughter, Whiteout.
|wiApp    = ''[[Runaway]]''
|wiMen    =


About three years after Darkstalker and Whiteout hatched, Darkstalker comes home to Foeslayer arguing with Prince Arctic about whether he should leave or stay in the Night Kingdom after Queen Diamond sends him a message that offers him amnesty if he returned to her and he kills his dragonets. Foeslayer was shocked, but Arctic told her that he won't accept it.
|gnApp    =
''[[Winter Turning (graphic novel)|Winter Turning]]'',<br />
''[[Escaping Peril (graphic novel)|Escaping Peril]]''<br />
''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)|Darkstalker]]''


Later, Darkstalker enchants a map to reveal the location of his mother after finding her enchanted earring discarded inside his house after a fight with Arctic. The red dot showed her frozen in place in the [[Ice Kingdom]], and he presumes her to be dead, not aware that she had been enchanted by [[Queen Diamond]].
|otFeat    =
''[[Official Wings of Fire Coloring Book]]'',<br />
''[[Official Wings of Fire Stained Glass Art Book]]''
}}
'''Hope''', formerly known as '''Foeslayer''', is an adult female [[NightWing]] and was one of the three main protagonists of ''[[Runaway]]''. Many [[IceWings]] believed that she was one of the main causes of the [[NightWing-IceWing War]], as Hope and [[Arctic]]'s forbidden relationship infuriated [[Queen Diamond]] and led her to declare war on the NightWings.


=== [[Runaway|''Runaway'']] ===
She was imprisoned in the [[Diamond Caves]] for over 2,000 years due to an [[Animus magic|enchantment]] cast by Queen Diamond, but was freed by [[Winter]] when he breathed frostbreath onto the diamond shapes on her shackles after his [[Diamond Trial]] was over. She is currently raising [[Peacemaker]] in the [[NightWing village]].
Foeslayer makes her second chronological appearance in the short e-book story ''Runaway''. Foeslayer is in the IceWing palace dome right after she met Prince Arctic for the first time in the ''Darkstalker (Legends) ''prologue. Prudence, Foeslayer's mother, comes over and asks where she was. Prudence notices Foeslayer's new earring recently given to her by Arctic and asks if she stole it, which Foeslayer gives her mother a version of the truth, saying that a IceWing gave it to her. This leads to a squabble broken up by Arctic, who had just walked in the room, trying to protect her from punishment. Prudence is confused who Arctic is and why he is trying to protect her daughter. Foeslayer finally admits to Prudence that she met Arctic earlier, and Prudence becomes angry because she had told Foeslayer earlier to keep silent and not interact with any of the IceWings. Prudence punishes Foeslayer by sending her to her chambers. While walking there, Foeslayer sees [[Snowflake]] who is supposed to marry Arctic, which makes her feel worse because she loves Arctic and wants him to herself.


Foeslayer is locked in her chambers for two days. On the last day of their visit, Foeslayer and Prudence are seen packing up and getting ready to leave. Foeslayer is annoyed that Arctic never visited her in two days and now she will have to leave him forever. Prudence is scolding her about her pacing when she suddenly freezes in place. Foeslayer is surprised to see Arctic walk through the wall of her chambers, and Foeslayer realizes that he is using his animus magic to escape his kingdom and go with her so they can be together. Arctic and Foeslayer have a happy reunion, and he enchants Foeslayer's earring so that she can not be harmed by any of Diamonds spells. Arctic then unfreezes Prudence, and persuades her to go to the Night Kingdom with them. The three of them go together back to the hallway to escape. As Arctic freezes IceWing guards in their way, Prudence reveals to her that she is letting Arctic come with them in hope that Foeslayer and Arctic have [[dragonets]] and pass the animus gene to the NightWing tribe. Prudence then goes to get the other two NightWIngs that came along with them, [[Starclaws]] and [[Discretion]], Foeslayer swears to herself to never tell Arctic what her mother just told her.  
== Description ==
Hope is huge,{{Ref|WT|275}} with black scales{{Ref|L1p}} that are as dark as a moonless night.{{Ref|WT|275}} She has dark green underscales, dark green eyes, a smooth, dark neck, and black wings.{{Ref|L1p}}


Snowflake and [[Snowfox]] spot the two fleeing and send a huge wave of IceWing guards after them. The guards shoot arrows and Foeslayer, but they swerve away from her due to her earring enchantment. Arctic enchants the guard's spears to stop them, and the spears kill the guards, which wasn't what Arctic meant to do. Snowflake then catches up with them, shouting at Arctic that he should never be happy. Foeslayer then breaths fire and Arctic makes it fly over and burn Snowflake's wing, making her fall onto the snow below. They then fly to a cliff and meet up with Prudence and the rest of the NightWings. Prudence offers Foeslayer one of the enchanted bracelets to survive the harsh, cold weather ahead of them, but Foeslayer declines saying that her earring will save her. The group flies twoard the Night Kingdom. Foeslayer asks Arctic if his soul is ok, which he replies saying that it is none of her business. When she tells him that it is, Arctic just growls and looks at her with a smug expression. Foeslayer convinces herself that she will make Arctic happy again, and that he and she would be together forever.
== Personality ==
As a [[dragonet]], Hope was scatterbrained, likely to blurt whatever she was thinking, and passionate over things that most other dragons found pointless. She was loudmouthed, hopeful, and slightly strange. She had a sharp tongue but was not the kind of dragon to leave others in danger.{{Ref|W4q|161}} She did not typically follow orders, and she was sarcastic and interesting.{{Ref|L1p}} She would rather be a happy dragon than a smart dragon.{{Ref|W4q|137}}


=== ''[[Winter Turning]]'' ===
When Winter appeared horrified by the enchantment that imprisoned Hope in the Diamond Caves, she only shrugged eloquently in response.{{Ref|WT|281}} She is absorbed with worry, protective, and ready to defend, love, and rage at a moment's notice.{{Ref|L1|10}} She is wry,{{Ref|DoD|345}} energetic,{{Ref|L1p}} nervous,{{Ref|L1|178}} patient,{{Ref|L1|175}} loyal,{{Ref|L1|171}} hopeful,{{Ref|L1|15}} and caring, and although she sparks with anger from snout to tail, there is immense room inside her for love.{{Ref|L1|14}} She feels guilty whenever she upsets her loved ones,{{Ref|L1|50}} and during a party in ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]'', she felt relief and eagerness to get to the food after being dismissed by [[Vigilance]].{{Ref|L1|179}} When interacting with [[Qibli]], her eyes were neither friendly nor unfriendly, and her face was difficult to read.{{Ref|DoD|278}} Her tone was not open to argument,{{Ref|DoD|279}} and when [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]] was surprised that she did not want vengeance against the IceWings for what they did to her, she replied that she was never vengeful.{{Ref|DoD|346}}
To win the [[Diamond Trial]], one must defeat Foeslayer and then kill their opponent. When [[Hailstorm]] and [[Winter]] found her in the Diamond Caves, Hailstorm touched his narwhal spear to the layer of ice covering her, cracking it off, he then attacked her. Foeslayer fought back and immobilized him, but when she moved in to kill him, Winter attacks her to protect Hailstorm. Hailstorm recovered and killed her, he then revealed that one of them has to kill the other in order to win the Diamond Trial.


Hailstorm agreed to let Winter sneak off and pretend he was killed instead of Hailstorm having to kill his own brother. When Hailstorm left, Winter tapped his spear to Foeslayer's ice again and cracked it, she remarked that she has never been woken up by the same dragonets twice. Winter then demanded why Foeslayer stole Prince Arctic, but she objected to the word "steal" and told Winter that they fell in love with each other, so Prince Arctic ran off with her, knowing the IceWings  wouldn't accept this. Winter felt sympathetic to the love she had for Arctic, comparing it to the feelings he has for [[Moonwatcher|Moon]], and decided to set Foeslayer free.
== Biography ==
=== The Jade Mountain Prophecy ===
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|heading = ''[[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]''
|content = To win the Diamond Trial, one must defeat Foeslayer and then kill the opposition. When [[Hailstorm]] and Winter found her in the Diamond Caves, Hailstorm touched his narwhal spear to the layer of ice covering her, cracking it off. He then attacked her. Foeslayer fought back and immobilized him, but when she moved in to kill him, Winter attacked her to protect Hailstorm. After a short conversation about the history of her imprisonment and an explanation of how Diamond's enchantment worked, she let Hailstorm kill her, telling him to "make it quick." Afterward, Hailstorm then revealed that he had been told in advance that one of them has to kill the other to win the Diamond Trial.


Winter figured out that he needs to use frostbreath on the base of the chains to break off the animus touched shackles that kept Foeslayer from leaving the Diamond Caves. Before he broke them off, he asked her to promise to leave the IceWings alone. She agreed, stating she never wanted to see another IceWing ever again, and said that she was going straight back to the (old) Night Kingdom. Winter decided that this would be a chance to find the Lost Kingdom of Night since Foeslayer and Darkstalker are the only ones who know where it was hidden. He hoped that after finding it, he'd be able to rejoin his friends and save Jade Mountain.
Hailstorm agreed to let Winter sneak off and pretend he was killed instead of Hailstorm having to kill his brother. When Hailstorm left, Winter tapped his spear to Foeslayer's ice again and cracked it, and she remarked that she has never been woken up by the same dragonets twice. Winter then demanded why Foeslayer stole Prince Arctic, but she objected to the word "steal" and told Winter that they fell in love with each other, so Prince Arctic ran off with her, knowing the IceWings would not accept this. Winter felt sympathetic to the love she had for Arctic, comparing it to the feelings he has for [[Moonwatcher]], and decided to set Foeslayer free.


=== ''[[Escaping Peril]]'' ===
Winter figured out that he needed to use frostbreath on the base of the chains to break off the [[Animus magic|animus-touched]] shackles that kept Foeslayer from escaping the Diamond Caves. Before he broke them off, he asked her to promise to leave the IceWings alone. She agreed, stating she never wanted to see another IceWing ever again and said that she was going straight back to the 'old' [[Lost city of night|Night Kingdom]]. Winter decided that this would be a chance to find the lost city of night since Foeslayer and Darkstalker are the only ones who know where it was hidden. He hoped that after finding it, he would be able to rejoin his friends and save [[Jade Mountain]].
Foeslayer appeared with Winter when they were flying back to Possibility. Upon seeing [[Peril]], Foeslayer remarked that she hadn't seen a firescales dragon in a long time. Later, after Peril accidentally burned Winter in their fight, Peril commanded Foeslayer to look for help, and she left.  
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|content = Foeslayer appeared with Winter when they were flying back to [[Possibility]]. Upon seeing [[Peril]], Foeslayer remarked that she had not seen a [[firescales]] dragon in a long time. Later, after Peril accidentally burned Winter in their fight, Peril shouted for Foeslayer to look for help, and she left. After Winter was healed, he explained that Foeslayer was with him because they were flying to the lost city of night.
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|content = Qibli met Foeslayer while he was in the library getting the blueprints of the Old Night Kingdom's Castle. She asked Qibli what his opinion on Darkstalker was. When he said that he did not trust Darkstalker, she asked why, and Qibli was forced to tell the truth seeing that there was no way around it. He told her that he did not trust Darkstalker because he killed his father and Foeslayer later gave him a map to the location where [[Tsunami]] was imprisoned.


=== ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'' ===
Near the end of the book, Foeslayer was sitting on a ledge, and Darkstalker flies over to her. They embrace and Qibli saw that Darkstalker loved her more than [[Clearsight]] or Moonwatcher. Soon after, Foeslayer tried convincing Darkstalker to eat a strawberry and make himself a dragonet with no powers and a wiped memory. Darkstalker was not persuaded, but [[Kinkajou]] was able to turn him into a NightWing-RainWing dragonet using scraps of his animus-touched scroll that she stole from [[Chameleon]]. Foeslayer took over as the dragonet's mother. She changed her name to Hope, upon the suggestion from Qibli, and went to live with the [[RainWings]] and NightWings in the rainforest. She also changed Darkstalker's name to Peacemaker.
Qibli sees her while he's in the library getting the blueprints of the Old Night Kingdom Castle. She asks him what his opinion on Darkstalker is, and later gives him a map to the location where she imprisoned Tsunami.


Near the end of the book, Foeslayer is sitting on a cliff/ledge and Darkstalker flies over to her. They embrace and Qibli sees that Darkstalker loved her more than Clearsight or Moonwatcher. Soon after, Foeslayer tries convincing Darkstalker to use his magic and make himself a dragonet with no powers and a wiped memory. Darkstalker is not persuaded, but Kinkajou is able to turn him into a dragonet using scraps of his magic scroll that she stole from Chameleon. Foeslayer takes over as the dragonet's (Peacemaker's) mother. She changes her name to Hope, upon the suggestion from Qibli, and goes to live with the RainWings.
In the epilogue, Moonwatcher asked her about [[Pantala|the lost continent]], and she replied that it was a kind of joke in her time, and then said that the NightWings calculated that [[Pyrrhia]] only covered a third of the world and that another continent might have been out there. Then she told her that "Before you go looking for trouble, see if you can find anything on the [[Legend of the Hive]]."
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=== The Lost Continent Prophecy ===
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|content = [[Snowfall]] mentioned how Diamond's son ran off with a NightWing. [[Tundra]] objected and claimed that Arctic was kidnapped by a NightWing. The NightWing they are referring to is Foeslayer.
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=== Legends ===
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|heading = ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
|content = Foeslayer appeared in the prologue, she pushing her way past Arctic and [[Snowflake]] to the balcony. She was shown talking and jumping around to try to warm herself up, and she eventually annoyed Snowflake into leaving. After learning the reason why Snowflake was so irritable was that Arctic forgot her name, she teased Arctic about it. The two proceeded to talk and flirt for a while. Eventually, to stay and talk with her for a while longer, Arctic enchanted his diamond earring to keep the wearer warm and protected, then gave it to Foeslayer, although he was aware that doing so was defying the IceWing heritage and law of only using animus magic once in a lifetime. This made her very surprised and worried about Arctic's soul.


<nowiki> </nowiki>In the epilogue, Moonwatcher asked her about the lost continent, and she replies that it was a kind of joke in her time, and then says that the NightWings calculated that Pyrrhia only covered a third of the world, and that it was quite possible that another continent was out there. Then she tells her that "before you go looking for trouble, see if you can find anything on the Legend of the Hive."
In the first chapter, Foeslayer was heard arguing with Arctic over what would be best for their two eggs. When the first one hatched, she named the dragonet Darkstalker. Arctic said that it sounded creepy, like he was stalking in the darkness, but she retorted that it sounded heroic, like he was following the darkness and chasing the shadows away. Arctic reluctantly agreed to the name but claimed he got to name the other dragonet, their daughter, Whiteout.


== Family Tree ==
About three years after Darkstalker and Whiteout hatched, Darkstalker came home to Foeslayer arguing with Prince Arctic about whether he should leave or stay in the Night Kingdom after Queen Diamond sent him a message that offered him amnesty if he returned to her and he killed his dragonets. Foeslayer was shocked, but Arctic told her that he would not accept it, and just wanted her to know what he could do if the topic came up again. Darkstalker ended their argument by saying he and Whiteout were both there, and Foeslayer apologized to both of them.
{{Royal IceWing Family Tree/Ancient}}


== Quotes ==
The dinner after Arctic found out about Darkstalker's animus powers, he told Foeslayer that their son had been keeping a secret from them. She firstly thought that he was talking about Clearsight, but then Arctic explained that the secret was animus magic. Foeslayer said that Prudence would be horribly pleased, then wondered if she should tell the [[queen]]. She asked to discuss that with Arctic later, in private.
''"I didn't steal him. I fell in love with him. And he loved me too. That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before."''


''"We didn't mean to ruin everything. Or start a terrible war, or to make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."''
Later, Darkstalker enchanted a map to reveal the location of his mother after finding her enchanted earring discarded inside his house after a fight with Arctic. The red dot showed her frozen in place in the [[Ice Kingdom]], and he presumed her to be dead, not aware that she had been enchanted by Queen Diamond and trapped in the Diamond Caves.
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=== Winglets ===
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|heading = ''[[Runaway]]''
|content = Foeslayer was in the [[IceWing palace]] dome right after she met Prince Arctic for the first time. [[Prudence]], Foeslayer's mother, came over and asked where she was. Prudence noticed Foeslayer's new earring recently given to her by Arctic and asked if she stole it, which Foeslayer gave her mother a version of the truth, saying that an IceWing gave it to her. This led to a squabble broken up by Arctic, who had just walked in the room, trying to protect her from punishment. Prudence was confused about who Arctic was and why he was trying to protect her daughter. Foeslayer finally admitted to Prudence, that she met Arctic earlier, and Prudence became angry because she had told Foeslayer earlier to keep silent and not interact with any of the IceWings. Prudence punished Foeslayer by sending her to her chambers. While walking there, Foeslayer saw Snowflake who was supposed to marry Arctic, which made her feel worse because she loves Arctic and wanted him to herself.


''"Brothers, oh my, how devastating. Welcome to my prison. I am Foeslayer."''
Foeslayer was locked in her chambers for two days. On the last day of their visit, Foeslayer and Prudence were seen packing up and getting ready to leave. Foeslayer was annoyed that Arctic never visited her in two days and now she would have to leave him forever. Prudence was scolding her about her pacing when she suddenly froze in place. Foeslayer was surprised to see Arctic walk through the wall of her chambers, and Foeslayer realized that he was using his animus magic to escape his kingdom and go with her so they could be together. Arctic and Foeslayer had a happy reunion, and he enchanted Foeslayer's earring so that she could not be harmed by any of Diamond's spells. Arctic then unfroze Prudence and persuaded her to go to the Night Kingdom with them. The three of them went together back to the hallway to escape. As Arctic froze IceWing guards in their way, Prudence revealed to her that she was letting Arctic come with them in hopes that Foeslayer and Arctic had dragonets and passed the animus gene to the NightWing tribe. Prudence then went to get the other two NightWings that came along with them, [[Starclaws]] and [[Discretion]], Foeslayer swore to herself to never tell Arctic what her mother just told her.


''"Here's some advice for you—never make an animus angry."''
Snowflake and [[Snowfox]] spot the two fleeing and sent a huge wave of IceWing guards after them. The guards shot arrows at Foeslayer, but they swerved away from her due to her earring's enchantment. Arctic enchanted the guard's spears to stop them, and the spears killed the guards, which was not what Arctic meant to do. Snowflake then caught up with them, shouting at Arctic that he should never be happy. Foeslayer then breathed fire and Arctic enchanted it to fly over and burn Snowflake's wing, making her fall onto the snow below. They then flew to a cliff and met up with Prudence and the rest of the NightWings. Prudence offered Foeslayer one of the enchanted bracelets to survive the harsh, cold weather ahead of them, but Foeslayer declined, saying that her earring would save her. The group flew toward the Night Kingdom. Foeslayer asked Arctic if his soul was okay, which he replied saying that it was none of her business. When she told him that it was, Arctic just growled and looked at her with a smug expression. Foeslayer convinced herself that she would make Arctic happy again and that he and she would be together forever.
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''"The darkness is his prey. He chases back the dark, like a hero."'' - About Darkstalker
== Relationships ==
=== [[Arctic]] ===
When Arctic first met Hope, he found his wings responding in a way that matched her own. When Arctic figured out Hope's name at the time, Foeslayer, he felt a thrill like the first time he had touched fire. Hope laughed and grinned with him, and he found himself unable to stop smiling at her. He thought that perhaps nothing would ever be boring or frustrating again so long as they were together, and he would do anything to spend a few more minutes with her. He broke his animus vow for Hope, and longed for her to view him as a dragon who did not care much for rules. He brushed his wing with her own, and promised her that his soul was hers, if she wanted it.{{Ref|L1p}} Hope believed that she would make their relationship work, and that they would be happy.{{Ref|W4q|171}}


''"Of course. What could I do? Send you to a room? Extra chores for a week? Somehow those didn't seem particularly apt for this situation."''
In later stages of their relationship, Arctic threatened Hope after she made a joke towards him,{{Ref|L1|10}} and Darkstalker sensed that his mother was in danger.{{Ref|L1|12}} There was fury, bitterness,{{Ref|L1|46}} suspicion, hatred, and emanating outrage from both partners.{{Ref|L1|16}} They often argued{{Ref|L1|46}} and squabbled{{Ref|L1|110}} loudly,{{Ref|L1|113}} and Hope was irritated with Arctic for staying within their home and complaining constantly.{{Ref|L1|47}} Although Arctic believed Hope only loved him for his animus magic, in truth, she disliked his magic and wished he had not been an animus. In fact, she stated she loved him more than anything.{{Ref|L1|245}}


''"Aren't we all?"'' - Said to Hailstorm when he told her he was going to kill her.
However, he still loved her; when Darkstalker hatched, he sensed a small, warm ember of love for Hope hidden under layers of ice.{{Ref|L1|14}} He could not bear to keep secrets from her,{{Ref|L1|167}} and worried about her safety.{{Ref|L1|170}} In one of Clearsight's visions, he was crying over a painting of Foeslayer by Whiteout.{{Ref|L1|148}} They were still physically affectionate with one another in the later stages of their relationship.{{Ref|L1|175}} She truly loved him.{{Ref|DoD|345}} Arctic did not want to leave Hope or Whiteout for the Ice Kingdom.


'' "I just- I have this strange feeling, that the world is about to change forever."
=== [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]] ===
During Darkstalker's hatching, Hope's mind shimmered with excitement,{{Ref|L1|12}} and she considered him strong.{{Ref|L1|13}} She adored him from hatching, heart and soul, and cared about him very deeply;{{Ref|L1|14}} she named him Darkstalker as an allusion to chasing back the darkness, like a hero.{{Ref|L1|15}} She was supportive of his relationship with Clearsight, and smiled at him often.{{Ref|L1|167}} She worried about Vigilance's intentions to use Darkstalker's animus magic, as she was concerned for the safety of her son.{{Ref|L1|171}} Darkstalker was willing to do anything to see his mother again after awakening from his enchantment,{{Ref|DoD|340}} and he appeared desperately hopeful at the prospect of seeing her.{{Ref|DoD|343}} He sobbed when they were reunited.{{Ref|DoD|344}} During their reunion, she told her son that she was sorry that he had to live a life shaped with anger and wished that they could start over again.{{Ref|DoD|347}} She urged Darkstalker to start over again as a dragonet and believes it was ultimately better for both of them.{{Ref|DoD|353}}


“''Darkstalker, my beloved disaster”-'' to Darkstalker
=== [[Diamond]] ===
Hope and Diamond were described to have a "complicated" relationship by Hope.{{Ref|WT|278}} Diamond mainly blamed Hope for causing the NightWing-IceWing War, and in revenge, imprisoning her in the Diamond Caves, Diamond killed Hope forty times herself just to vent her anger.{{Ref|WT|281}}


=== [[Prudence]] ===
Although Prudence was Hope's mother, she treated Hope poorly, commenting that she looked frightful and then seizing Hope's ear so harshly that she recoiled in pain.{{Ref|W4q|133}} Prudence viewed Hope as smart-mouthed{{Ref|W4q|132}} and wayward,{{Ref|W4q|134}} as well as idiotic,{{Ref|W4q|163}} brainless, and prone to catastrophe. Prudence was dismissive, and typically would act outraged if Hope refused something she offered, but as soon as Hope wanted something, Prudence would refuse to give it to her.{{Ref|W4q|136}} Although Prudence was overbearing, Hope still cared about her, and refused to leave her mother in Diamond's claws while she and Arctic fled the Ice Kingdom together.{{Ref|W4q|160}} When Hope confessed that she had fallen in love with Arctic, she expected her mother's yelling, disapproval, and abuse, and was surprised when she reacted more calmly.{{Ref|W4q|162}}


== Trivia ==
== Family tree ==
* All animus NightWings were descended from her and Arctic.
{{Royal IceWing Family Tree/Ancient}}
* She was the best fighter in her class.
* Foeslayer said that "NightWing mothers always know," inferring that it is instinct that they put their eggs under the moons and know when they will hatch.
* In ''Darkstalker'', Darkstalker talks about possibly naming one of his and [[Clearsight|Clearsight's]] dragonets Foeslayer, after his mother.
* Because Foeslayer didn't necessarily age in the Diamond Trial Caves, she's physically younger than Darkstalker, making Darkstalker physically older than his mother.
* Age wise, Foeslayer is the oldest living dragon known to the series.
* Foeslayer says she hasn't seen firescales in a long time, meaning firescales were possible in the past. 
* Foeslayer apparently got to the [[Night Kingdom|Old Night Kingdom]] sometime during ''[[Talons of Power]]'' when [[Turtle]] follows Darkstalker there, hence the feeling of being watched that Turtle got when he was there. 
* It is mentioned in [[Winter Turning]] that Queen Diamond killed her forty times after the spell was cast on her. 


==Gallery==
== Quotes ==
{{Gallery Hider/start}}<gallery navigation="true">
{{SingleQuote
Typical NightWing by Sassy the Beagle.jpg|A typical NightWing (colored), by [[Joy Ang]]
|quote  = That's Arctic's fiancée. The dragon he's supposed to marry. He's taken. He's going to marry someone else. But he never could have been mine anyway. So why did I agree to meet him in secret later tonight? Am I still going to? A smart dragon wouldn't. A smart dragon would keep her head down and make it home to the Night Kingdom instead of risking an intertribal incident. Yes, but ... that smart dragon sounds perfectly miserable. All right. So what if I choose not to be smart? It's only one secret meeting. I just want to talk to him some more. I mean, really, universe ... what's the worst that could happen?
NightTransparent.png|A typical NightWing (lineart), by [[Joy Ang]]
|speaker = thoughts about Arctic and Snowflake
German nightwing.jpg|A typical NightWing from the German publication, by [[Max Meinzold]]
|book    = [[Runaway]]
FoeslayerTemplate.png|Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
|page    =
File:The_truth_wings_of_fire_spoilers_by_xsilverlace-d9vl7nh.png|The Truth By xSilverlace
}}
Diamond Trials Collaboration.jpg|Diamond Trials drawn by xTheDragonRebornx and IgnitetheBlaize|link=http://xthedragonrebornx.deviantart.com/art/Diamond-Trials-Collaboration-631598744?ga_submit_new=10%253A1472607249&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1
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foeslayer_by_realtense-danzkbi.jpg|foeslayer by RealTense
{{SingleQuote
move_forward_by_brokebackbromance-db6o2lk.png|Move Forward by BrokebackBromance|link=http://velocirapioca.deviantart.com/art/Move-Forward-676328744
|quote  = Seriously the worst! That poor dragon! I am completely telling her not to marry you. I pity whoever gets tricked into that. You'll be like, 'Happy fortieth anniversary ... what's your name again?' and she'll be all, 'It's our FIFTIETH, you slime weasel, and my name is you're sleeping on an iceberg tonight.
NightWing Sigil.png|NightWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
|speaker = to Arctic about Snowflake
Foeslayer.png|Foeslayer Ref by QueenClam
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
peace.png|Hope and Peacemaker by IceOfWaterflock|link=https://iceofwaterflock.deviantart.com/art/Peace-732985436
|pe      = prologue
Hopeberrykeeper lgbt week small.png|Hope (right) with Secretkeeper and Strawberry by IceOfWaterflock|link=https://iceofwaterflock.deviantart.com/art/Hopeberrykeeper-LGBT-WoF-Week-732633217
}}
least_favorite_life__scene_18.png|Foeslayer chained in the ice caves by Queen Diamond. From the Least Favorite Life PMV
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a_foeslayer_by_brokebackbromance-daxm2h4.png|A Foeslayer by BrolebackBromance
{{SingleQuote
foeslayer_by_brokebackbromance-dast2do.png|Foeslayer by BrokebackBromance
|quote  = Oh, she's always lecturing me about how I ruin everything. Foeslayer, why are the scrolls shelved in the wrong places again? Foeslayer, you smiled at the wrong dragons this morning! Foeslayer, the queen will never want you on her council if you insist on having opinions all the time. Foeslayer, I'm bringing you on this mission because I don't trust you if I leave you behind, but if you say ''one word to any IceWing'', I will mount your head on a spike in the throne room.
wof_h_a_d_day_39___foeslayer_by_xthedragonrebornx-dbxcafa.png.jpg|WoF H-a-D Day 39 - Foeslayer by xTheDragonRebornx
|speaker = to Arctic about Prudence
foeslayer___whiteout___darkstalker_by_toxic_flow-dbmey93.png|Foeslayer / Whiteout / Darkstalker by Toxic-Flow
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
headshot__39_foeslayer_by_kenyaford-dbyo3xb.jpg|headshot #39 Foeslayer by KenyaFord
|pe      = prologue
mothers_day__2__srawberries__by_kenyaford-dcbagv7.jpg|Mother's Day #2 :Strawberries: by KenyaFord
}}
no_son_of_mine_by_prophecywings-db0w981.png.jpg|no son of mine by Scourgeseer
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leave_me_to_dream_by_prophecywings-davt4oz.png|Leave Me To Dream by Scourgeseer
{{SingleQuote
misery_loves_company_by_brokebackbromance-dbln8xw.png.jpg|Misery Loves Company by BrokebackBromance
|quote  = Nothing is ''wrong'' with ''my dragonets.''
runaway_by_brokebackbromance-dbksfm0.png.jpg|Runaway by BrokebackBromance
|speaker = to Arctic
that_world_never_came_by_brokebackbromance-dawh4ug.png.jpg|That World Never Came by BrokebackBromance
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
in_my_arms_by_brokebackbromance-dafe3xx.png.jpg|In My Arms by BrokebackBromance
|page    = 11
love_can_t_save_us_by_brokebackbromance-dastbys.png|Love Can't Save Us by BrokebackBromance
}}
the_awakening_of_foes_by_light_star_does_art-dap1ph5.png.jpg|The Awakening of Foes by light-star-does-art
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darkness_of_dragons_by_brokebackbromance-db6cj87.png.jpg|Darkness of Dragons by BrokebackBromance
{{SingleQuote
wof__apart_from_the_start_by_ruscsi-dbjbx5h.png|WoF: Apart from the start by RusCSI
|quote  = And of course you think your 'rank' is higher than mine. But we're not in your kingdom. My dragonets will never set foot in your frozen wasteland. We are here, whether you like it or not, and he is my son, and his name is Darkstalker.
unchained_by_brokebackbromance-db6ms1f.png|Unchained by BrokebackBromance
|speaker = to Arctic
at_the_beginning_by_brokebackbromance-daa9l4z.png|At the Beginning by BrokebackBromance
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
wings_of_fire___after_2000_years_by_biohazardia-dbo8p26.png|Wings of Fire - After 2,000 Years by Biohazardia
|page    = 15
this_world_is_about_to_change_forever_by_icewing24-daz3lvu.png|This World is About to Change Forever by Verasaii
}}
least_favorite_life__scene_18_by_iron_zing-dbkzmks.png.jpg|Least Favorite Life: Scene 18 by Iron-Zing
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wings_of_fire___the_light_of_dragons_by_biohazardia-dc534ib.png.jpg|Wings of Fire - The Light of Dragons by Biohazardia
{{SingleQuote
i_put_a_spell_on_you_by_vegasyote-dc840rk.png.jpg|I Put a Spell on You by Vegasyote
|quote  = No, keep smiling. I know you're doing all this for me. It'll all be worth it. Together forever, Arctic! We're going to be the happiest dragons in the world.
mom_day_by_deer_tea-dcbhgam.png.jpg|Mom day by Liliumaa
|speaker = to Arctic
foeslayerandherchildren.png|I promise, I'll do better by SkaiaGalaxy|link=https://www.deviantart.com/skaiagalaxy/art/i-promise-i-ll-do-better-751698376
|book    = [[Runaway]]
wings_of_fire__arctic_and_foeslayer_by_iron_zing-dajbqnk.jpg|Arctic and Foeslayer
|page    =
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = You think you know everything about me and Arctic, Mother. You think we're already falling apart and you're so pleased with yourself. You can't wait to say ''I told you so'' to me every day for the rest of my life. But I love Arctic. I do, and that's real. I'm going to make this marriage work. I'm going to make him keep loving me, and I'm not going to let him get away with acting like a jerk. I'm going to hang on to his soul. I'm going to make him happy. We are going to be happy. Maybe this isn't exactly the fate either of us expected. But it's ours now. Me and Arctic. Together against the world. Forever.
|speaker = thoughts towards Prudence
|book    = [[Runaway]]
|page    =  
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = This is very moving, but would one of you please kill me already? I'm tired, I haven't eaten in hundreds of years, and these days it's more painful to be awake than to go through the process of dying again.
|speaker = to Hailstorm and Winter
|book    = [[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]
|page    = 280
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Yes. You stab me, I die painfully, and then I go back to being frozen until someone wakes me up again. It's a cunning enchantment. The first forty times, Queen Diamond killed me herself. I suspect the original point of the spell was that she wasn't satisfied with killing me just once. But then the forty-first time, there were two dragonets here ... so she must have decided I could be used for this other purpose, whatever you two are here for.
|speaker = to Hailstorm and Winter
|book    = [[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]
|page    = 281
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = It's part of your queen's gift, IceWing. I have been frozen in time, so I only age in the moments when I'm unfrozen like this. The plan, evidently, is to keep me here a very, very long time.
|speaker = to Winter
|book    = [[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]
|page    = 277
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I didn't steal him. I fell in love with him. And he loved me, too. That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. We didn't mean to ruin everything, or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together.
|speaker = to Winter
|book    = [[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]
|page    = 287-288
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Darkstalker. My beloved disaster.
|speaker = to Darkstalker when they first met after two thousand years
|book    = [[Darkness of Dragons]]
|page    = 344
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I was never a vengeful dragon. You get that from your father. Calm down, it's true. But it doesn't make ''sense'' to punish the IceWing tribe for what happened to us all those centuries ago, Darkstalker. Queen Diamond is long gone. The war should have ended then. Time has moved on without us and we should let it, not drag it back into the blood and fire of our old fight. I remember what Arctic did during our escape from the Ice Kingdom. I understand why they were so angry, and why he never really recovered. I'm sorry you had to live a life shaped by that anger.
|speaker = to Darkstalker
|book    = [[Darkness of Dragons]]
|page    = 346-347
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = I think I'll call him Peacemaker. I wonder if history would have been different if I'd chosen a name like that from the beginning.
|speaker = to Kinkajou, Moonwatcher, and Qibli
|book    = [[Darkness of Dragons]]
|page    = 355
}}
 
== Trivia ==
* Whenever Arctic and Hope attended parties in the lost city of night together, they would intentionally complement one another's jewelry because it gave the illusion of matching and fitting perfectly together.{{Ref|L1|175}}
* Hope was one of the strongest fighters in her class.{{Ref|W4q|161}}
* During the welcome party in ''Darkstalker'', Hope was the first to rush in and fill one of Queen Vigilance's usual momentary silences. Darkstalker made a mental note to find a subtle way to make Vigilance pay later.{{Ref|L1|178}}
* Hope knows a few tricks to hide her thoughts from mind-readers.{{Ref|DoD|353}}
 
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Foeslayer Gn1.jpg|Hope from ''[[Winter Turning (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Mike Holmes]]
HopeTemplateSkyla.png|Reference by {{U|Skyla the Skywing}}
</gallery>
 
<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Mike Holmes]], from the [[:Category:Graphic novels|Wings of Fire Graphic Novels]]">
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</gallery>
 
<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Jake Parker]], from ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)]]''">
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Latest revision as of 12:11, 5 November 2025

"I was never a vengeful dragon. You get that from your father. Calm down, it's true. But it doesn't make sense to punish the IceWing tribe for what happened to us all those centuries ago, Darkstalker. Queen Diamond is long gone. The war should have ended then. Time has moved on without us and we should let it, not drag it back into the blood and fire of our old fight. I remember what Arctic did during our escape from the Ice Kingdom. I understand why they were so angry, and why he never really recovered. I'm sorry you had to live a life shaped by that anger."
— Hope to Darkstalker, Darkness of Dragons

Hope, formerly known as Foeslayer, is an adult female NightWing and was one of the three main protagonists of Runaway. Many IceWings believed that she was one of the main causes of the NightWing-IceWing War, as Hope and Arctic's forbidden relationship infuriated Queen Diamond and led her to declare war on the NightWings.

She was imprisoned in the Diamond Caves for over 2,000 years due to an enchantment cast by Queen Diamond, but was freed by Winter when he breathed frostbreath onto the diamond shapes on her shackles after his Diamond Trial was over. She is currently raising Peacemaker in the NightWing village.

Description

Hope is huge,[1] with black scales[2] that are as dark as a moonless night.[1] She has dark green underscales, dark green eyes, a smooth, dark neck, and black wings.[2]

Personality

As a dragonet, Hope was scatterbrained, likely to blurt whatever she was thinking, and passionate over things that most other dragons found pointless. She was loudmouthed, hopeful, and slightly strange. She had a sharp tongue but was not the kind of dragon to leave others in danger.[3] She did not typically follow orders, and she was sarcastic and interesting.[2] She would rather be a happy dragon than a smart dragon.[4]

When Winter appeared horrified by the enchantment that imprisoned Hope in the Diamond Caves, she only shrugged eloquently in response.[5] She is absorbed with worry, protective, and ready to defend, love, and rage at a moment's notice.[6] She is wry,[7] energetic,[2] nervous,[8] patient,[9] loyal,[10] hopeful,[11] and caring, and although she sparks with anger from snout to tail, there is immense room inside her for love.[12] She feels guilty whenever she upsets her loved ones,[13] and during a party in Darkstalker, she felt relief and eagerness to get to the food after being dismissed by Vigilance.[14] When interacting with Qibli, her eyes were neither friendly nor unfriendly, and her face was difficult to read.[15] Her tone was not open to argument,[16] and when Darkstalker was surprised that she did not want vengeance against the IceWings for what they did to her, she replied that she was never vengeful.[17]

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Winter Turning

To win the Diamond Trial, one must defeat Foeslayer and then kill the opposition. When Hailstorm and Winter found her in the Diamond Caves, Hailstorm touched his narwhal spear to the layer of ice covering her, cracking it off. He then attacked her. Foeslayer fought back and immobilized him, but when she moved in to kill him, Winter attacked her to protect Hailstorm. After a short conversation about the history of her imprisonment and an explanation of how Diamond's enchantment worked, she let Hailstorm kill her, telling him to "make it quick." Afterward, Hailstorm then revealed that he had been told in advance that one of them has to kill the other to win the Diamond Trial.

Hailstorm agreed to let Winter sneak off and pretend he was killed instead of Hailstorm having to kill his brother. When Hailstorm left, Winter tapped his spear to Foeslayer's ice again and cracked it, and she remarked that she has never been woken up by the same dragonets twice. Winter then demanded why Foeslayer stole Prince Arctic, but she objected to the word "steal" and told Winter that they fell in love with each other, so Prince Arctic ran off with her, knowing the IceWings would not accept this. Winter felt sympathetic to the love she had for Arctic, comparing it to the feelings he has for Moonwatcher, and decided to set Foeslayer free.

Winter figured out that he needed to use frostbreath on the base of the chains to break off the animus-touched shackles that kept Foeslayer from escaping the Diamond Caves. Before he broke them off, he asked her to promise to leave the IceWings alone. She agreed, stating she never wanted to see another IceWing ever again and said that she was going straight back to the 'old' Night Kingdom. Winter decided that this would be a chance to find the lost city of night since Foeslayer and Darkstalker are the only ones who know where it was hidden. He hoped that after finding it, he would be able to rejoin his friends and save Jade Mountain.
Escaping Peril
Foeslayer appeared with Winter when they were flying back to Possibility. Upon seeing Peril, Foeslayer remarked that she had not seen a firescales dragon in a long time. Later, after Peril accidentally burned Winter in their fight, Peril shouted for Foeslayer to look for help, and she left. After Winter was healed, he explained that Foeslayer was with him because they were flying to the lost city of night.
Darkness of Dragons

Qibli met Foeslayer while he was in the library getting the blueprints of the Old Night Kingdom's Castle. She asked Qibli what his opinion on Darkstalker was. When he said that he did not trust Darkstalker, she asked why, and Qibli was forced to tell the truth seeing that there was no way around it. He told her that he did not trust Darkstalker because he killed his father and Foeslayer later gave him a map to the location where Tsunami was imprisoned.

Near the end of the book, Foeslayer was sitting on a ledge, and Darkstalker flies over to her. They embrace and Qibli saw that Darkstalker loved her more than Clearsight or Moonwatcher. Soon after, Foeslayer tried convincing Darkstalker to eat a strawberry and make himself a dragonet with no powers and a wiped memory. Darkstalker was not persuaded, but Kinkajou was able to turn him into a NightWing-RainWing dragonet using scraps of his animus-touched scroll that she stole from Chameleon. Foeslayer took over as the dragonet's mother. She changed her name to Hope, upon the suggestion from Qibli, and went to live with the RainWings and NightWings in the rainforest. She also changed Darkstalker's name to Peacemaker.

In the epilogue, Moonwatcher asked her about the lost continent, and she replied that it was a kind of joke in her time, and then said that the NightWings calculated that Pyrrhia only covered a third of the world and that another continent might have been out there. Then she told her that "Before you go looking for trouble, see if you can find anything on the Legend of the Hive."

The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Dangerous Gift
Snowfall mentioned how Diamond's son ran off with a NightWing. Tundra objected and claimed that Arctic was kidnapped by a NightWing. The NightWing they are referring to is Foeslayer.

Legends

Darkstalker

Foeslayer appeared in the prologue, she pushing her way past Arctic and Snowflake to the balcony. She was shown talking and jumping around to try to warm herself up, and she eventually annoyed Snowflake into leaving. After learning the reason why Snowflake was so irritable was that Arctic forgot her name, she teased Arctic about it. The two proceeded to talk and flirt for a while. Eventually, to stay and talk with her for a while longer, Arctic enchanted his diamond earring to keep the wearer warm and protected, then gave it to Foeslayer, although he was aware that doing so was defying the IceWing heritage and law of only using animus magic once in a lifetime. This made her very surprised and worried about Arctic's soul.

In the first chapter, Foeslayer was heard arguing with Arctic over what would be best for their two eggs. When the first one hatched, she named the dragonet Darkstalker. Arctic said that it sounded creepy, like he was stalking in the darkness, but she retorted that it sounded heroic, like he was following the darkness and chasing the shadows away. Arctic reluctantly agreed to the name but claimed he got to name the other dragonet, their daughter, Whiteout.

About three years after Darkstalker and Whiteout hatched, Darkstalker came home to Foeslayer arguing with Prince Arctic about whether he should leave or stay in the Night Kingdom after Queen Diamond sent him a message that offered him amnesty if he returned to her and he killed his dragonets. Foeslayer was shocked, but Arctic told her that he would not accept it, and just wanted her to know what he could do if the topic came up again. Darkstalker ended their argument by saying he and Whiteout were both there, and Foeslayer apologized to both of them.

The dinner after Arctic found out about Darkstalker's animus powers, he told Foeslayer that their son had been keeping a secret from them. She firstly thought that he was talking about Clearsight, but then Arctic explained that the secret was animus magic. Foeslayer said that Prudence would be horribly pleased, then wondered if she should tell the queen. She asked to discuss that with Arctic later, in private.

Later, Darkstalker enchanted a map to reveal the location of his mother after finding her enchanted earring discarded inside his house after a fight with Arctic. The red dot showed her frozen in place in the Ice Kingdom, and he presumed her to be dead, not aware that she had been enchanted by Queen Diamond and trapped in the Diamond Caves.

Winglets

Runaway

Foeslayer was in the IceWing palace dome right after she met Prince Arctic for the first time. Prudence, Foeslayer's mother, came over and asked where she was. Prudence noticed Foeslayer's new earring recently given to her by Arctic and asked if she stole it, which Foeslayer gave her mother a version of the truth, saying that an IceWing gave it to her. This led to a squabble broken up by Arctic, who had just walked in the room, trying to protect her from punishment. Prudence was confused about who Arctic was and why he was trying to protect her daughter. Foeslayer finally admitted to Prudence, that she met Arctic earlier, and Prudence became angry because she had told Foeslayer earlier to keep silent and not interact with any of the IceWings. Prudence punished Foeslayer by sending her to her chambers. While walking there, Foeslayer saw Snowflake who was supposed to marry Arctic, which made her feel worse because she loves Arctic and wanted him to herself.

Foeslayer was locked in her chambers for two days. On the last day of their visit, Foeslayer and Prudence were seen packing up and getting ready to leave. Foeslayer was annoyed that Arctic never visited her in two days and now she would have to leave him forever. Prudence was scolding her about her pacing when she suddenly froze in place. Foeslayer was surprised to see Arctic walk through the wall of her chambers, and Foeslayer realized that he was using his animus magic to escape his kingdom and go with her so they could be together. Arctic and Foeslayer had a happy reunion, and he enchanted Foeslayer's earring so that she could not be harmed by any of Diamond's spells. Arctic then unfroze Prudence and persuaded her to go to the Night Kingdom with them. The three of them went together back to the hallway to escape. As Arctic froze IceWing guards in their way, Prudence revealed to her that she was letting Arctic come with them in hopes that Foeslayer and Arctic had dragonets and passed the animus gene to the NightWing tribe. Prudence then went to get the other two NightWings that came along with them, Starclaws and Discretion, Foeslayer swore to herself to never tell Arctic what her mother just told her.

Snowflake and Snowfox spot the two fleeing and sent a huge wave of IceWing guards after them. The guards shot arrows at Foeslayer, but they swerved away from her due to her earring's enchantment. Arctic enchanted the guard's spears to stop them, and the spears killed the guards, which was not what Arctic meant to do. Snowflake then caught up with them, shouting at Arctic that he should never be happy. Foeslayer then breathed fire and Arctic enchanted it to fly over and burn Snowflake's wing, making her fall onto the snow below. They then flew to a cliff and met up with Prudence and the rest of the NightWings. Prudence offered Foeslayer one of the enchanted bracelets to survive the harsh, cold weather ahead of them, but Foeslayer declined, saying that her earring would save her. The group flew toward the Night Kingdom. Foeslayer asked Arctic if his soul was okay, which he replied saying that it was none of her business. When she told him that it was, Arctic just growled and looked at her with a smug expression. Foeslayer convinced herself that she would make Arctic happy again and that he and she would be together forever.

Relationships

Arctic

When Arctic first met Hope, he found his wings responding in a way that matched her own. When Arctic figured out Hope's name at the time, Foeslayer, he felt a thrill like the first time he had touched fire. Hope laughed and grinned with him, and he found himself unable to stop smiling at her. He thought that perhaps nothing would ever be boring or frustrating again so long as they were together, and he would do anything to spend a few more minutes with her. He broke his animus vow for Hope, and longed for her to view him as a dragon who did not care much for rules. He brushed his wing with her own, and promised her that his soul was hers, if she wanted it.[2] Hope believed that she would make their relationship work, and that they would be happy.[18]

In later stages of their relationship, Arctic threatened Hope after she made a joke towards him,[6] and Darkstalker sensed that his mother was in danger.[19] There was fury, bitterness,[20] suspicion, hatred, and emanating outrage from both partners.[21] They often argued[20] and squabbled[22] loudly,[23] and Hope was irritated with Arctic for staying within their home and complaining constantly.[24] Although Arctic believed Hope only loved him for his animus magic, in truth, she disliked his magic and wished he had not been an animus. In fact, she stated she loved him more than anything.[25]

However, he still loved her; when Darkstalker hatched, he sensed a small, warm ember of love for Hope hidden under layers of ice.[12] He could not bear to keep secrets from her,[26] and worried about her safety.[27] In one of Clearsight's visions, he was crying over a painting of Foeslayer by Whiteout.[28] They were still physically affectionate with one another in the later stages of their relationship.[9] She truly loved him.[7] Arctic did not want to leave Hope or Whiteout for the Ice Kingdom.

Darkstalker

During Darkstalker's hatching, Hope's mind shimmered with excitement,[19] and she considered him strong.[29] She adored him from hatching, heart and soul, and cared about him very deeply;[12] she named him Darkstalker as an allusion to chasing back the darkness, like a hero.[11] She was supportive of his relationship with Clearsight, and smiled at him often.[26] She worried about Vigilance's intentions to use Darkstalker's animus magic, as she was concerned for the safety of her son.[10] Darkstalker was willing to do anything to see his mother again after awakening from his enchantment,[30] and he appeared desperately hopeful at the prospect of seeing her.[31] He sobbed when they were reunited.[32] During their reunion, she told her son that she was sorry that he had to live a life shaped with anger and wished that they could start over again.[33] She urged Darkstalker to start over again as a dragonet and believes it was ultimately better for both of them.[34]

Diamond

Hope and Diamond were described to have a "complicated" relationship by Hope.[35] Diamond mainly blamed Hope for causing the NightWing-IceWing War, and in revenge, imprisoning her in the Diamond Caves, Diamond killed Hope forty times herself just to vent her anger.[5]

Prudence

Although Prudence was Hope's mother, she treated Hope poorly, commenting that she looked frightful and then seizing Hope's ear so harshly that she recoiled in pain.[36] Prudence viewed Hope as smart-mouthed[37] and wayward,[38] as well as idiotic,[39] brainless, and prone to catastrophe. Prudence was dismissive, and typically would act outraged if Hope refused something she offered, but as soon as Hope wanted something, Prudence would refuse to give it to her.[40] Although Prudence was overbearing, Hope still cared about her, and refused to leave her mother in Diamond's claws while she and Arctic fled the Ice Kingdom together.[41] When Hope confessed that she had fallen in love with Arctic, she expected her mother's yelling, disapproval, and abuse, and was surprised when she reacted more calmly.[42]

Family tree

Royal
IceWings		Animus
IceWings
UnknownDiamondPrudence
SnowfoxUnnamedSwiftwingsArcticFoeslayer
UnknownClearsightDarkstalkerWhiteoutThoughtful
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Quotes

"That's Arctic's fiancée. The dragon he's supposed to marry. He's taken. He's going to marry someone else. But he never could have been mine anyway. So why did I agree to meet him in secret later tonight? Am I still going to? A smart dragon wouldn't. A smart dragon would keep her head down and make it home to the Night Kingdom instead of risking an intertribal incident. Yes, but ... that smart dragon sounds perfectly miserable. All right. So what if I choose not to be smart? It's only one secret meeting. I just want to talk to him some more. I mean, really, universe ... what's the worst that could happen?"
― thoughts about Arctic and Snowflake (Runaway)
"Seriously the worst! That poor dragon! I am completely telling her not to marry you. I pity whoever gets tricked into that. You'll be like, 'Happy fortieth anniversary ... what's your name again?' and she'll be all, 'It's our FIFTIETH, you slime weasel, and my name is you're sleeping on an iceberg tonight."
― to Arctic about Snowflake (Darkstalker, prologue)
"Oh, she's always lecturing me about how I ruin everything. Foeslayer, why are the scrolls shelved in the wrong places again? Foeslayer, you smiled at the wrong dragons this morning! Foeslayer, the queen will never want you on her council if you insist on having opinions all the time. Foeslayer, I'm bringing you on this mission because I don't trust you if I leave you behind, but if you say one word to any IceWing, I will mount your head on a spike in the throne room."
― to Arctic about Prudence (Darkstalker, prologue)
"Nothing is wrong with my dragonets."
― to Arctic (Darkstalker, page 11)
"And of course you think your 'rank' is higher than mine. But we're not in your kingdom. My dragonets will never set foot in your frozen wasteland. We are here, whether you like it or not, and he is my son, and his name is Darkstalker."
― to Arctic (Darkstalker, page 15)
"No, keep smiling. I know you're doing all this for me. It'll all be worth it. Together forever, Arctic! We're going to be the happiest dragons in the world."
― to Arctic (Runaway)
"You think you know everything about me and Arctic, Mother. You think we're already falling apart and you're so pleased with yourself. You can't wait to say I told you so to me every day for the rest of my life. But I love Arctic. I do, and that's real. I'm going to make this marriage work. I'm going to make him keep loving me, and I'm not going to let him get away with acting like a jerk. I'm going to hang on to his soul. I'm going to make him happy. We are going to be happy. Maybe this isn't exactly the fate either of us expected. But it's ours now. Me and Arctic. Together against the world. Forever."
― thoughts towards Prudence (Runaway)
"This is very moving, but would one of you please kill me already? I'm tired, I haven't eaten in hundreds of years, and these days it's more painful to be awake than to go through the process of dying again."
― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 280)
"Yes. You stab me, I die painfully, and then I go back to being frozen until someone wakes me up again. It's a cunning enchantment. The first forty times, Queen Diamond killed me herself. I suspect the original point of the spell was that she wasn't satisfied with killing me just once. But then the forty-first time, there were two dragonets here ... so she must have decided I could be used for this other purpose, whatever you two are here for."
― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 281)
"It's part of your queen's gift, IceWing. I have been frozen in time, so I only age in the moments when I'm unfrozen like this. The plan, evidently, is to keep me here a very, very long time."
― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 277)
"I didn't steal him. I fell in love with him. And he loved me, too. That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. We didn't mean to ruin everything, or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."
― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 287-288)
"Darkstalker. My beloved disaster."
― to Darkstalker when they first met after two thousand years (Darkness of Dragons, page 344)
"I was never a vengeful dragon. You get that from your father. Calm down, it's true. But it doesn't make sense to punish the IceWing tribe for what happened to us all those centuries ago, Darkstalker. Queen Diamond is long gone. The war should have ended then. Time has moved on without us and we should let it, not drag it back into the blood and fire of our old fight. I remember what Arctic did during our escape from the Ice Kingdom. I understand why they were so angry, and why he never really recovered. I'm sorry you had to live a life shaped by that anger."
― to Darkstalker (Darkness of Dragons, page 346-347)
"I think I'll call him Peacemaker. I wonder if history would have been different if I'd chosen a name like that from the beginning."
― to Kinkajou, Moonwatcher, and Qibli (Darkness of Dragons, page 355)

Trivia

  • Whenever Arctic and Hope attended parties in the lost city of night together, they would intentionally complement one another's jewelry because it gave the illusion of matching and fitting perfectly together.[9]
  • Hope was one of the strongest fighters in her class.[3]
  • During the welcome party in Darkstalker, Hope was the first to rush in and fill one of Queen Vigilance's usual momentary silences. Darkstalker made a mental note to find a subtle way to make Vigilance pay later.[8]
  • Hope knows a few tricks to hide her thoughts from mind-readers.[34]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Winter Turning, page 275
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Darkstalker, prologue
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 161
  4. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 137
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Winter Turning, page 281
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Darkstalker, page 10
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Darkness of Dragons, page 345
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Darkstalker, page 178
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Darkstalker, page 175
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Darkstalker, page 171
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Darkstalker, page 15
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Darkstalker, page 14
  13. ↑ Darkstalker, page 50
  14. ↑ Darkstalker, page 179
  15. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 278
  16. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 279
  17. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 346
  18. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 171
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Darkstalker, page 12
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Darkstalker, page 46
  21. ↑ Darkstalker, page 16
  22. ↑ Darkstalker, page 110
  23. ↑ Darkstalker, page 113
  24. ↑ Darkstalker, page 47
  25. ↑ Darkstalker, page 245
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Darkstalker, page 167
  27. ↑ Darkstalker, page 170
  28. ↑ Darkstalker, page 148
  29. ↑ Darkstalker, page 13
  30. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 340
  31. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 343
  32. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 344
  33. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 347
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 Darkness of Dragons, page 353
  35. ↑ Winter Turning, page 278
  36. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 133
  37. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 132
  38. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 134
  39. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 163
  40. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 136
  41. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 160
  42. ↑ The Winglets Quartet: Runaway, page 162


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