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{{Quote
{{Quote
|quote     = Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't - she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make.
|quote   = [[Burn]] has promised [[MudWings|us]] immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't — she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little [[SandWing]]. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make.
|speaker   = Queen Moorhen to [[Princess Sunny|Sunny]] about [[Princess Burn|Burn]] in ''[[The Brightest Night]]''.}}
|speaker = Moorhen to [[Sunny]] about Burn, ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]''
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|name       = Queen Moorhen
{{Character
|image     = MoorhenTemplate.png
|name     = Moorhen
|age       = Old enough to be as big as [[Morrowseer]],(presumably 40 or 50 years old)
|image     =  
|gender     = Female
<gallery>
|tribe     = [[MudWings]]
Guide Portrait Moorhen.jpg|Portrait
|occupation = Queen of the MudWings
MoorhenGN4.png|GN
|residence  = [[Queen Moorhen's Palace]]
MoorhenTemplatebB.png|Reference
|status    = Alive
</gallery>
|age       = Over 21 years
|gender   = Female
|tribe     = [[MudWings]]
|powers    =  


|Relation1  = Siblings
|status    = Alive (as of ''[[The Dangerous Gift]]'')
|RName1    =
|Relation2  = Ancestor
|RName2    = [[Queen Crane]] † (possibly)


|appeared   = ''[[The Brightest Night]]''
|current   = [[Queen]] of the [[MudWings]]
|mentioned  = ''[[The Hidden Kingdom]]'', ''[[Moon Rising]]'', ''[[Escaping Peril]]'', ''[[Talons of Power (Book)]]'', ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'', ''[[Assassin]]''
|former    =


|quote      = ''"You're very small to be in charge of saving the world."''
|Relation1 = Brothers
|RName1    = [[Unnamed characters#MudWings|Three unnamed MudWings]]
|Relation2 = Sister
|RName2    = [[Unnamed characters#MudWings|Unnamed MudWing]]
|Relation3 = Grandmother
|RName3    = [[Unnamed characters#MudWings|Unnamed MudWing]]
|Relation4 = Ancestors
|RName4    = [[Olive]], [[Coypu]]
 
 
|a1App    = ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]''
|a1Men    =
''[[The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet Prophecy]]'',<br />
''[[The Lost Heir (book)|The Lost Heir]]'',<br />
''[[The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden Kingdom]]'',<br />
''[[The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark Secret]]''
|a2Men    =
''[[Moon Rising (book)|Moon Rising]]'',<br />
''[[Winter Turning (graphic novel)|Winter Turning]]'',<br />
''[[Escaping Peril (book)|Escaping Peril]]'',<br />
''[[Talons of Power (book)|Talons of Power]]'',<br />
''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|a3App    = ''[[The Dangerous Gift]]''
|a3Men    =
|gnApp    = ''[[The Brightest Night (graphic novel)|The Brightest Night]]''
|gnMen    =
''[[The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel)|The Hidden Kingdom]]'',<br />
''[[The Dark Secret (graphic novel)|The Dark Secret]]'',<br />
''[[Moon Rising (graphic novel)|Moon Rising]]'',<br />
''[[Escaping Peril (graphic novel)|Escaping Peril]]''
|wiApp    =
|wiMen    = ''[[Assassin]]''
|otFeat    =
''[[Official Wings of Fire Coloring Book]]'',<br />
''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]''
}}
}}
'''Queen Moorhen''' is a female [[MudWings|MudWing]] bejeweled with various gemstones that display her importance as the current [[Dragon Queens|queen]] of the MudWing tribe. By size and age, she is perhaps the current oldest queen in [[Pyrrhia]], described to be as large as [[Morrowseer]]. Like every other MudWing queen, she has not and will most likely never be challenged for the throne by her sisters, because her siblings are a very tightly knit group and they would never try to kill each other, even for the throne.
'''Moorhen''' is an adult female [[MudWing]] who was introduced in ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]''. She is the current [[queen]] of the MudWings and the [[bigwings]] of her troop. She was allied with [[Burn]] and the [[SkyWings]], and formerly [[Blister]] and the [[SeaWings]] during the [[War of SandWing Succession]]. She currently resides in the [[MudWing palace]] located within the [[Mud Kingdom]].


==Appearance==
== Description ==
She is stately, russet-hued, and adorned with various gemstones embedded onto her head and ankles. She was described to be as big as [[Morrowseer]], perhaps even bigger{{Ref|TBN|244}}.
Moorhen is huge, as big as [[Morrowseer]], and much taller than any of her four siblings. She has russet-{{Ref|TBN|244}}brown{{Ref|TBN|245}} scales and has embedded gemstones on her ankles and head.{{Ref|TBN|244}}


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Moorhen was the [[bigwings]] of her clutch, and because of that, she is very protective of her siblings, which includes three brothers and a sister. Her protective instincts extend to the rest of her tribe as well, explaining why the MudWings joined the [[War of SandWing Succession|war]]. [[Princess Burn|Burn]] threatened Moorhen to fight for her; otherwise, she would attack the tribe. According to [[Reed]], Moorhen is a good queen and is loved by her fellow MudWings. She would do anything to protect her tribe from danger, even collaborating with Burn, and it is shown through her long reign over them.
Moorhen is a protective queen, both of her tribe and her siblings. She seeks for the option that most ensures the safety of her tribe. It is seen when she joined Burn's side of the war when Burn threatened to attack the MudWing tribe if Moorhen refused to fight with her. According to [[Sora]], Moorhen is a good queen and is greatly respected by her MudWing subjects. In ''The Brightest Night'', she fretted over how many [[dragons]] were dying and how it was her fault she did not protect them well enough.


== Biography ==
Moorhen also appears to be skeptical, stating that [[Sunny]]'s plan to stop the war with no more dragons dying sounded like "a tale from one of the SeaWing queen's silly romantic [[scrolls]]".{{Ref|TBN|248}}
=== ''[[The Hidden Kingdom]]'' ===
When [[The Dragonets of Destiny|the dragonets of destiny]] and [[Webs ]] are walking through the [[Rainforest Kingdom]], [[Tsunami ]] notices some [[MudWings]] headed their way but notes that they couldn't possibly see them in the fog, but [[Starflight]] suggests that they should hide because they were only a day's flight from Queen Moorhen's palace and that they wouldn't want to get caught and be imprisoned by her. Glory also thinks that Moorhen probably would not give them tea and send them on their way if they met her.
=== ''[[The Brightest Night]]'' ===
Moorhen gathered her army to prepare for an invasion of the [[Ice Kingdom]] along with her [[SkyWings|SkyWing]] allies, in which they planned to wipe out the whole of the IceWing forces. [[Princess Sunny|Sunny]] visited Moorhen during one of her nightmares using a [[Dreamvisitors|dreamvisitor]] to warn her about the battle. Sunny managed to convince her not to go through with the invasion, because it would kill too many dragons on both sides, and to arrive at [[Queen Thorn's Stronghold|Burn's Stronghold]] a few days later for the peace summit. Although Moorhen did agree, she was still unsure it would solve anything, but was present at the Stronghold at the end of the book for the crowning of [[Queen Thorn]].


=== ''[[Moon Rising]]'' ===
[[Coral]] stated that Moorhen has "such interesting ideas."{{Ref|DoDe}} She is logical, and would not want to put her tribe through more war.{{Ref|DoD|86}} [[Fatespeaker]] described her as nice and "only a little bit completely intimidating."{{Ref|AGttDW|16}}
[[Umber]] mentions to the rest of his Winglet in ''[[Moon Rising]]'' that his siblings [[Reed]] and [[Pheasant]] are working for Moorhen in her palace.


Later, [[Princess Anemone|Anemone]] mentions she hasn't eaten since she left Queen Moorhen's palace.
== Biography ==
=== The Dragonet Prophecy ===
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet Prophecy]]''
|content = While in the Mud Kingdom, [[Clay]] met his sibs, who were soldiers in Queen Moorhen's army.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Lost Heir (book)|The Lost Heir]]''
|content = Moorhen's army helped the SkyWings with the [[dragonflame cactus]] attack on the [[Summer Palace]], carrying burning logs and dropping them into the palace. Her spy in the [[Talons of Peace]], [[Crocodile]], was the reason they were able to find the Summer Palace.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden Kingdom]]''
|content = When the [[dragonets of destiny]] and [[Webs]] were walking through the [[Rainforest Kingdom]], [[Tsunami]] noticed some MudWings heading their way but noted that they could not possibly see the dragonets in the fog. [[Starflight]] suggested that they should hide because they were only a day's flight from Queen Moorhen's palace and that they would not want to get caught and be imprisoned. [[Glory]] also sarcastically said that Moorhen probably would not give them tea and send them on their way if they met her.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark Secret]]''
|content = In the prologue, [[Pheasant]] asked why she and her siblings had to fight in the War of [[SandWing]] Succession, and [[Reed]] replied that Queen Moorhen must have a good reason to ally with Burn and the SkyWings.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]''
|content = Moorhen gathered her army to prepare for an invasion of the [[Ice Kingdom]] along with her SkyWing allies, in which they planned to wipe out every last [[IceWing]]. Sunny visited Moorhen during one of her nightmares using a [[dreamvisitor]] to warn her about the battle. Sunny managed to convince her not to go through with the invasion because it would kill too many dragons on both sides, then told Moorhen to arrive at [[SandWing stronghold|Burn's stronghold]] a few days later for the peace summit. Although Moorhen did agree to try, she was still unsure it would solve anything. She was present at the stronghold when [[Thorn]] was crowned queen of the SandWings. Also, while this was unbeknownst to all but the IceWings, the [[Ice Kingdom#Great Ice Cliff|Great Ice Cliff]] would have slaughtered the entirety of Burn's attack if Moorhen had not believed Sunny.
}}
----
=== The Jade Mountain Prophecy ===
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Moon Rising (book)|Moon Rising]]''
|content = [[Umber]] mentioned to the rest of his Winglet that his siblings Reed and Pheasant were working for Moorhen in her palace. Later, [[Anemone]] mentioned she had not eaten since she left Queen Moorhen's palace.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Winter Turning (book)|Winter Turning]]''
|content = [[Winter]] briefly mentioned Moorhen when he thought about the location of the [[Indestructible City|scavenger den]] he and his friends stopped by while looking for the Talons of Peace.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Escaping Peril (book)|Escaping Peril]]''
|content = When [[Scarlet]] arrived at [[Jade Mountain Academy|Jade Mountain]], she threw the decapitated head of Queen Glory at [[Queen Ruby]], her SkyWing guards, and the dragonets of destiny before fleeing. With the help of [[Turtle]], the group discovered that the head was actually a MudWing head enchanted to look like Glory, and Ruby decided to contact Queen Moorhen and let her know that Scarlet had killed one of her subjects and therefore must have been around her swamps to get to a MudWing.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Talons of Power (book)|Talons of Power]]''
|content = While flying to the rainforest, to defend [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]] and the [[NightWings]], Anemone asked Turtle to imagine if Coral had died, and all the SeaWings had to go to the Mud Kingdom to be bossed around by Moorhen. Later, when Turtle was thinking of how to deal with Darkstalker, Turtle wondered if Moorhen, along with the other queens, would listen to him and help.
}}
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|content = [[Bog]] claimed that Queen Moorhen and the MudWings were the ones setting off bombs in the [[Kingdom of Sand]], which [[Qibli]] could tell was a lie. Later, Queen Thorn mentioned Moorhen, saying that she should send a dragon with an earring enchanted to protect her from Darkstalker.  


=== ''[[Escaping Peril]]'' ===
In the epilogue, Coral mentioned in her letter to Turtle that she was rebuilding the Summer Palace and hoped it would be a center of trade and diplomacy, especially with Queen Moorhen and Queen Glory.
In the beginning of the book, [[Ex-Queen Scarlet]] arrives at [[Jade Mountain Academy|Jade Mountain]] to throw the decapitated head of [[Queen Glory]] at [[Queen Ruby/Queen Ruby|Queen Ruby]], her SkyWing guards, and the [[Dragonets of Destiny]] before fleeing. With the help of [[Prince Turtle]], the group discovers that the head is actually a MudWing head enchanted to look like Glory, and Ruby decides to contact Queen Moorhen to let her know that Scarlet has killed one of her subjects and therefore must be around her swamps to get to a MudWing.
}}
 
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=== ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''===
=== The Lost Continent Prophecy ===
In ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'', Queen Thorn mentions Moorhen, saying that she should send a dragon with an earring enchanted to protect her from [[King Darkstalker|Darkstalker]]. However, the book misspells her name, spelling Mudhen instead of Moorhen. In the epilogue, [[Queen Coral]] mentions in her letter to Turtle that she is rebuilding the [[Summer Palace]] and hopes it will be a center of trade and diplomacy, especially with Queen Moorhen and Queen Glory.
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[The Dangerous Gift]]''
|content = [[Snowfall]] mentioned Moorhen while complaining to herself about the other queens going on and on about unity and "that sort of nonsense". She also mentioned that Moorhen was her favorite out of all other queens because she was calm and the least annoying of the other queens. During the queens' meeting, Moorhen said that there was not enough room in the Mud Kingdom for the refugee dragons and later sent [[Bullfrog (TDG)|Bullfrog]] as the MudWing representative to go to [[Pantala]].
}}
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=== Winglets ===
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[Assassin]]''
|content = While never appearing, one of her generals, [[Swamp]], and at least two of her guards met with [[Tempest]], Blister, and the SeaWings at the time of Tempest's murder. One of the guards reported the news of what happened and subsequently, she broke off her alliance with Blister. Due to these events, Burn was able to threaten her into allying with her.
}}
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=== Field Guides ===
{{Dropdown
|align  = left
|heading = ''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]''
|content = Moorhen was depicted outside the MudWing palace in a portrait at the beginning of the MudWing chapter of the guide. Moorhen was later mentioned in Fatespeaker's letter to Starflight where she gave Fatespeaker two scrolls for the guide from the library in the MudWing palace.
}}


==Family Tree==
== Family tree ==
{{Royal MudWing Family Tree}}
{{Royal MudWing Family Tree}}


== ''Quotes'' ==
== Quotes ==
''"Here? Now? [...] Can’t you see I’m in the middle of a campaign? And everyone’s dying and it’s all my fault and I can’t save them? [...] No. ''No, ''I'' command ''you not to die.''" - To Sunny about her dream during her dreamvisit in ''The Brightest Night''.
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Here? Now? [...] Can't you see I'm in the middle of a campaign? And everyone's dying and it's all my fault and I can't save them? [...] No. ''No'', I ''command'' you not to die.
|speaker = to Sunny, in a dream
|book    = [[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]
|page    = 246
}}
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{{SingleQuote
|quote  = But then the war will be over, and perhaps that'll be worth it. Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't — she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make.
|speaker = to Sunny about the war
|book    = [[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]
|page    = 247
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Good luck. You're very small to be in charge of saving the world.
|speaker = to Sunny
|book    = [[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]
|page    = 249
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = You want us to send our soldiers all the way to the other side of the ocean. To fight in a war that  — I'm so sorry, but  — it has nothing to do with us. ''Our'' dragons are safe here. That thing over there doesn't even know about us. If we go rile it up, it might come back to attack us and we could lose this continent, too. At least right now, this is a safe place  — for us ''and'' for you.
|speaker = to [[Hazel]] and Qibli about the [[othermind]]
|book    = [[The Dangerous Gift]]
|page    = 205
}}


''"Hmm."''
== Trivia ==
* [[Tui]] accidentally made Queen Thorn refer to her as Mudhen in ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''.{{Ref|DoD|154}} This was corrected in the e-book and later printings.
* Queen Moorhen's sister looked so much like her that Queen Snowfall almost "bowed to the wrong dragon."{{Ref|TDG|200}}


''"What does that mean? [...] Is that a threat?"''
== Gallery ==
 
<gallery>
''"This is really a dream? Then how are you here?"''
Guide Portrait Moorhen.jpg|Moorhen in a portrait from ''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]'', by [[Joy Ang]]
 
MoorhenGN4.png|Moorhen from ''[[The Brightest Night (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Mike Holmes]]
''"I have a guess, [...] Shouldn't there be five of you?"''
Moorhen SP.png|Moorhen from the ''[[Merchandise#Official Wings of Fire Stickerpedia|Official Wings of Fire Stickerpedia]]'', by [[Brianna C. Walsh]]
 
MoorhenTemplatebB.png|Reference by {{U|BLaCkBlEaCh2021}}
''"Is that an omen? [...] Did your NightWing tell you that?"''
</gallery>
 
''"But then the war will be over, and perhaps that'll be worth it. Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't-- she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make."''
 
''"It sounds like a tale from one of the SeaWing queen's silly romantic scrolls. What are you planning to do?"''
 
''"I'll think about it. Are you choosing Burn, then?"''
 
''"That sounds like you're avoiding the question."''
 
''"Perhaps not."''
 
''"It sounds like it, [...] I'll see what I can do."''
 
''"Good luck, [...] You're very small to be in charge of saving the world."'' - To Sunny during her dreamvisit in ''The Brightest Night''.


''"Hmmm. [...] Maybe. [...] I hope so."''
<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Mike Holmes]], from the [[:Category:Graphic novels|Wings of Fire Graphic Novels]]">
 
Queen Moorhen TBN.jpeg
== Trivia ==
Queen Moorhen TBN 2.jpeg
* A moorhen is a group of waterfowl in the family Rallidae; they resemble dark ducks.
MoorhenGN1.jpeg
**The Common Moorhen was recently renamed the Common Gallinule.
Moorhen GN 2.png
* Burn threatened to kill her tribe if she didn't join the war, but promised one hundred years of immunity from attack in exchange for joining her (however, considering what Starflight said about her under the mountain, Burn was most likely just lying in order to get Moorhen's army, and probably would war with them just for the fun of it, regardless of their deal)
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* Moorhen and Coral are the only two queens to be part of the original leadership at the time of ''[[The Dragonet Prophecy]]'' and still lead in ''Darkness of Dragons''.
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* She knows of the [[Queen Coral's Scrolls|SeaWings' scrolls]] as referring to them in ''The Brightest Night'' as "The SeaWing queen's silly, romantic scrolls".
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* She has been described as an older queen.
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** This is probably due to the fact that a MudWing's siblings would never betray each other, as they have a very close bond instinctively.
* Moorhen is most likely not descended from the original line of MudWing queens, as [[Chameleon]] has mentioned that there was a time the MudWings were left with no heirs.
* Sunny mentioned she read that MudWings were only challenged by daughters, not sisters, because a sister would never kill another sibling.
* She had originally allied with [[Princess Blister|Blister]] and the [[SeaWings]], but after the events of ''[[Assassin]]'', they broke their alliance. 
* In ''Darkness of Dragons,'' page 154, paragraph 2, Queen Thorn accidentally refers to her as Mudhen. This was corrected in the E-book, and later printings of it as well. 
* Reed and Pheasant are currently working for her, as of ''Moon Rising''.
 
== Gallery ==
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Typical MudWing by Sassy the Beagle.jpg|A typical MudWing (colored), by [[Joy Ang]]
MudTransparent.png|A typical MudWing (lineart), by [[Joy Ang]]
Germanmudwing.jpg|A typical MudWing from the German publication, by [[Max Meinzold]]
MoorhenTemplate.png|Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
MudWing Sigil.png|MudWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
QueenMoorhenByTime.jpeg|Queen Moorhen by CrystalWarder
QueenmoorhenBYNS.png|By Nightstrike the Dragon
Wof d a d day 19 moorhen by xthedragonrebornx-daetofk.png|By xTheDragonRebornx
Moorhen.JPG|Queen Moorhen by HarpyoftheRainWings
File:74defb805865d417c7cf9a241e36dcb5.jpg|Queen Moorhen by stingfish101
queen_moorhen_by_xthedragonrebornx-daaq7ea.jpeg|Queen Moorhen drawn by xTheDragonRebornx|link=http://xthedragonrebornx.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Moorhen-622680562
0202171843a-1.jpg|Queen Moorhen, by Adren
Moorhen.jpg|An example of actual moorhens
untitled_by_vision_seeker-db2viqv.png|Queen Moorhen D-a-d - Day 19 by Vision-Seeker|link=http://vision-seeker.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Moorhen-D-a-d-Day-19-669957799
Moorhen.png|by Toenailish
queen_moorhen_by_drawgonite-d8kwpfb.jpg|Queen Moorhen by Drawgonite|link=http://drawgonite.deviantart.com/art/Queen-Moorhen-518847671
822463.png|Moorhen by Ta-ak|link=https://ta-ak.deviantart.com/art/H-A-D-Queen-Moorhen-710692858
moorhen with red eyes for some reason.jpg|Moorhen with red eyes for some reason, by ItsCharlooloo
MoorhenbyQueenClam.png|Moorhen by QueenClam
moorhen and hailstorm lgbt week small.png|Queen Moorhen pictured with Hailstorm by IceOfWaterflock|link=https://iceofwaterflock.deviantart.com/art/Moorhen-and-Hailstorm-LGBT-WoF-Week-733021380
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th_kindlephoto-93189857.jpg|Queen Moorhen
sddefault_kindlephoto-46849197.jpg|Queen Moorhen
cfd68e92d2b76a6e7a27cfe5e8c50944_kindlephoto-93235237.png|Queen Moorhen
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"Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't — she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make."
— Moorhen to Sunny about Burn, The Brightest Night

Moorhen is an adult female MudWing who was introduced in The Brightest Night. She is the current queen of the MudWings and the bigwings of her troop. She was allied with Burn and the SkyWings, and formerly Blister and the SeaWings during the War of SandWing Succession. She currently resides in the MudWing palace located within the Mud Kingdom.

Description

Moorhen is huge, as big as Morrowseer, and much taller than any of her four siblings. She has russet-[1]brown[2] scales and has embedded gemstones on her ankles and head.[1]

Personality

Moorhen is a protective queen, both of her tribe and her siblings. She seeks for the option that most ensures the safety of her tribe. It is seen when she joined Burn's side of the war when Burn threatened to attack the MudWing tribe if Moorhen refused to fight with her. According to Sora, Moorhen is a good queen and is greatly respected by her MudWing subjects. In The Brightest Night, she fretted over how many dragons were dying and how it was her fault she did not protect them well enough.

Moorhen also appears to be skeptical, stating that Sunny's plan to stop the war with no more dragons dying sounded like "a tale from one of the SeaWing queen's silly romantic scrolls".[3]

Coral stated that Moorhen has "such interesting ideas."[4] She is logical, and would not want to put her tribe through more war.[5] Fatespeaker described her as nice and "only a little bit completely intimidating."[6]

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Dragonet Prophecy
While in the Mud Kingdom, Clay met his sibs, who were soldiers in Queen Moorhen's army.
The Lost Heir
Moorhen's army helped the SkyWings with the dragonflame cactus attack on the Summer Palace, carrying burning logs and dropping them into the palace. Her spy in the Talons of Peace, Crocodile, was the reason they were able to find the Summer Palace.
The Hidden Kingdom
When the dragonets of destiny and Webs were walking through the Rainforest Kingdom, Tsunami noticed some MudWings heading their way but noted that they could not possibly see the dragonets in the fog. Starflight suggested that they should hide because they were only a day's flight from Queen Moorhen's palace and that they would not want to get caught and be imprisoned. Glory also sarcastically said that Moorhen probably would not give them tea and send them on their way if they met her.
The Dark Secret
In the prologue, Pheasant asked why she and her siblings had to fight in the War of SandWing Succession, and Reed replied that Queen Moorhen must have a good reason to ally with Burn and the SkyWings.
The Brightest Night
Moorhen gathered her army to prepare for an invasion of the Ice Kingdom along with her SkyWing allies, in which they planned to wipe out every last IceWing. Sunny visited Moorhen during one of her nightmares using a dreamvisitor to warn her about the battle. Sunny managed to convince her not to go through with the invasion because it would kill too many dragons on both sides, then told Moorhen to arrive at Burn's stronghold a few days later for the peace summit. Although Moorhen did agree to try, she was still unsure it would solve anything. She was present at the stronghold when Thorn was crowned queen of the SandWings. Also, while this was unbeknownst to all but the IceWings, the Great Ice Cliff would have slaughtered the entirety of Burn's attack if Moorhen had not believed Sunny.

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising
Umber mentioned to the rest of his Winglet that his siblings Reed and Pheasant were working for Moorhen in her palace. Later, Anemone mentioned she had not eaten since she left Queen Moorhen's palace.
Winter Turning
Winter briefly mentioned Moorhen when he thought about the location of the scavenger den he and his friends stopped by while looking for the Talons of Peace.
Escaping Peril
When Scarlet arrived at Jade Mountain, she threw the decapitated head of Queen Glory at Queen Ruby, her SkyWing guards, and the dragonets of destiny before fleeing. With the help of Turtle, the group discovered that the head was actually a MudWing head enchanted to look like Glory, and Ruby decided to contact Queen Moorhen and let her know that Scarlet had killed one of her subjects and therefore must have been around her swamps to get to a MudWing.
Talons of Power
While flying to the rainforest, to defend Darkstalker and the NightWings, Anemone asked Turtle to imagine if Coral had died, and all the SeaWings had to go to the Mud Kingdom to be bossed around by Moorhen. Later, when Turtle was thinking of how to deal with Darkstalker, Turtle wondered if Moorhen, along with the other queens, would listen to him and help.
Darkness of Dragons

Bog claimed that Queen Moorhen and the MudWings were the ones setting off bombs in the Kingdom of Sand, which Qibli could tell was a lie. Later, Queen Thorn mentioned Moorhen, saying that she should send a dragon with an earring enchanted to protect her from Darkstalker.

In the epilogue, Coral mentioned in her letter to Turtle that she was rebuilding the Summer Palace and hoped it would be a center of trade and diplomacy, especially with Queen Moorhen and Queen Glory.

The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Dangerous Gift
Snowfall mentioned Moorhen while complaining to herself about the other queens going on and on about unity and "that sort of nonsense". She also mentioned that Moorhen was her favorite out of all other queens because she was calm and the least annoying of the other queens. During the queens' meeting, Moorhen said that there was not enough room in the Mud Kingdom for the refugee dragons and later sent Bullfrog as the MudWing representative to go to Pantala.

Winglets

Assassin
While never appearing, one of her generals, Swamp, and at least two of her guards met with Tempest, Blister, and the SeaWings at the time of Tempest's murder. One of the guards reported the news of what happened and subsequently, she broke off her alliance with Blister. Due to these events, Burn was able to threaten her into allying with her.

Field Guides

A Guide to the Dragon World
Moorhen was depicted outside the MudWing palace in a portrait at the beginning of the MudWing chapter of the guide. Moorhen was later mentioned in Fatespeaker's letter to Starflight where she gave Fatespeaker two scrolls for the guide from the library in the MudWing palace.

Family tree

More
Coypu
Several Generations
Three
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Quotes

"Here? Now? [...] Can't you see I'm in the middle of a campaign? And everyone's dying and it's all my fault and I can't save them? [...] No. No, I command you not to die."
― to Sunny, in a dream (The Brightest Night, page 246)
"But then the war will be over, and perhaps that'll be worth it. Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't — she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make."
― to Sunny about the war (The Brightest Night, page 247)
"Good luck. You're very small to be in charge of saving the world."
― to Sunny (The Brightest Night, page 249)
"You want us to send our soldiers all the way to the other side of the ocean. To fight in a war that — I'm so sorry, but — it has nothing to do with us. Our dragons are safe here. That thing over there doesn't even know about us. If we go rile it up, it might come back to attack us and we could lose this continent, too. At least right now, this is a safe place — for us and for you."
― to Hazel and Qibli about the othermind (The Dangerous Gift, page 205)

Trivia

  • Tui accidentally made Queen Thorn refer to her as Mudhen in Darkness of Dragons.[7] This was corrected in the e-book and later printings.
  • Queen Moorhen's sister looked so much like her that Queen Snowfall almost "bowed to the wrong dragon."[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Brightest Night, page 244
  2. ↑ The Brightest Night, page 245
  3. ↑ The Brightest Night, page 248
  4. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, epilogue
  5. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 86
  6. ↑ A Guide to the Dragon World, page 16
  7. ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 154
  8. ↑ The Dangerous Gift, page 200


MudWings
Queens

Present: Moorhen
Historical: Anhinga • Coypu • Crane • Egret • Olive

Royalty
(Historical)

Bayou • Copperhead • Possum • Sawgrass

Jade Mountain

Clay • Marsh • Newt • Sepia • Sora • Umber

Other Dragons

Asha • Bog • Bullfrog • Cattail • Crane • Crocodile • Gharial • Mayfly • Ochre • Pheasant • Reed • Swamp

Other Dragons
(Historical)

Moccasin • Taupe • Warthog

Kingdom

Diamond Spray Delta • Diamond Spray River • MudWing palace

Society

MudWing Succession Crisis


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