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{{Quote
{{Quote
|quote  = What does this slippery IceWing want now?
|quote  = Yes. [...] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an underwater attack focused on [[North Beach]] in the next month.
|speaker = Queen Vigilance's thoughts about [[Prince Arctic]] in ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)]]''.}}
|speaker = Vigilance to [[Allknowing]], ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
{{Charbox
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|name       = Queen Vigilance
{{Character
|image     = NightTransparent.png
|name     = Vigilance
|age       = Older than 40 years at last appearance (roughly 3,012 AS)
|image     = Vigilance GN 2.png
|gender     = Female
|age       = Older than 40 years at last appearance (roughly 3,012 AS)
|tribe     = [[NightWings]]
|gender   = Female
|occupation = Queen of the NightWings
|tribe     = [[NightWings]]
|residence  =
|powers    =  
|status    = Deceased
 
|Relation1  = Offspring
|RName1    = Several sons and three daughters
|Relation2  = Descendants
|RName2    = [[Queen Battlewinner]] †, [[Princess Greatness]]


|appeared  = ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)]]''
|status    = Deceased
|mentioned  = ''[[Runaway]]'', ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''


|quote      = ''"Share your mumbo jumbo."''
|current  =
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|former    = [[Queen]] of the [[NightWings]]
'''Queen Vigilance''' was the [[Dragon Queens|queen]] of the [[NightWings|NightWing]] tribe during the time of [[King Darkstalker|Darkstalker]] in ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)]]''. During the welcoming celebration for the [[SeaWings]], she had been described by Darkstalker as speaking very little and allowing other dragons to fill in the spaces in conversation, which was a trick to make others fear her. Queen Vigilance tried to find out everything that could happen about the NightWing/[[IceWings|IceWing]] war by hiring [[Clearsight]] as her top seer. She knew that Clearsight possessed unusually strong foresight, so she used the NightWing [[Dragonets|dragonet]] to her advantage. Vigilance also tried to kill Darkstalker by sending the assassin [[Quickdeath]] after him. This was after [[Allknowing]], her previous top seer, told her that Darkstalker would kill her in the future. She was described as being a tad greedy and prone to throwing parties every other minute. She invited important dragons to these parties, and often invited Darkstalker, [[Foeslayer]] and [[Prince Arctic|Arctic]], but never [[Whiteout]], as she was an obvious hybrid. Her name resembled her personality, as she was a vigilant and just ruler in her own eyes. She was said to be very manipulative, especially to her daughters, who haven't challenged her for the throne, letting her rule for a number of years; however, it was foreseen that one of Vigilance's daughters could challenge her in 10 years from that time, but it was highly unlikely that she would succeed. Clearsight commented that like [[Princess Snowfox|Snowfox]], Vigilance "had no problem with wiping out entire tribes."


== Appearance ==
|Relation1 = Daughters
She was described to have "darting ink black eyes" which were "very suspecting." In addition to that, she also had diamonds embedded under her wings and also wore an obsidian crown. 
|RName1    = Unnamed NightWings


She was also described as very imposing as none of her daughters had challenged her in the past years. If they did, she most likely killed them.
|Relation2 = Sons
|RName2    = At least three unnamed NightWings


== History ==
|Relation12 = Descendants
|RName12    = [[Greatness]], [[Battlewinner]] (possibly)


=== [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Legends: Darkstalker]] ===
|a2App    =
In ''Darkstalker (Legends)'', Vigilance is the queen of the NightWings. When Arctic tells her that his son, Darkstalker, is an animus, she brings [[Fathom]] to the Night Kingdom to help Darkstalker learn to be more careful with his powers. She also hires Clearsight to predict the future for her tribe.
|a2Men    =
''[[Moon Rising (book)|Moon Rising]]'',<br />
''[[Talons of Power (book)|Talons of Power]]'',<br />
''[[Darkness of Dragons]]''
|gnApp    = ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)|Darkstalker]]''
|gnMen    = ''[[Moon Rising (graphic novel)|Moon Rising]]''
|leApp    = ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
|leMen    =  
|wiApp    =  
|wiMen    = ''[[Runaway]]''
|otFeat    = ''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]''
}}
'''Vigilance''' was an adult female [[NightWing]] who was introduced in ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''. She ruled as [[queen]] of the NightWings during [[Darkstalker (L1)|Darkstalker]]'s era. After [[Clearsight]]'s warning, she fled from the [[lost city of night]] to the [[NightWing island]] alongside her tribe.


== Family Tree ==
== Description ==
{{Royal NightWing Family Tree}}
Vigilance had sharp,{{Ref|L1|257}} glinting,{{Ref|L1|218}} pitch-black eyes.{{Ref|L1|306}} She wore an ostentatious crown, and her wings were loaded with diamonds.{{Ref|L1|177}} [[Arctic]] described her as regal and radiant.{{Ref|L1|177}} She had a thin and sinister smile.{{Ref|L1|257}}


== Personality ==
== Personality ==
Queen Vigilance is shown to be very paranoid, and often kills dragons long before they ever become a significant threat. However, she seems to be very trusting of seers, (such as Clearsight and Allknowing) and it is even stated that it wouldn't be hard for a seer to manipulate her. She also is known to be very ambitious, and sometimes even greedy. She also may be hard to please, as Clearsight mentioned on her first day of school that she would evaluate all her potential seers and she would not be pleased. However, her seers do not seem to be great compared to Clearsight, so that sentiment is understandable. Vigilance often uses her power as queen to hold threats over seers, forcing them to tell her possible death scenes. It is stated that she has a public prison, were she puts prisoners on display. She seems to care about her job as queen and like the power, as seen when she tells her dragonet to let her rule for a certain amount of years. She also evidently holds some contempt or hatred for IceWings, as shown by some of [[Clearsight]]'s visions of genocide.  
Vigilance was sharp,{{Ref|L1|308}} glowering,{{Ref|L1|251}} suspicious,{{Ref|L1|181}} intimidating, and shrewd. A large amount of her apparent menace came from the fact that she spoke very little, allowing the [[dragons]] around her to fill in all the gaps with their own nervous chatter. She was also deeply paranoid, killing off perceived threats long before they were genuinely dangerous. She was anxious and shortsighted, and she was not very susceptible to flattery, as she found compliments highly suspicious.{{Ref|L1|177}} She enjoyed trifling with nervous dragons by remaining silent.{{Ref|L1|178}} She loved conducting business whenever it might seem peculiar to other dragons,{{Ref|L1|216}} and adopted an aura of furiousness{{Ref|L1|307}} and chilly stillness when she was displeased.{{Ref|L1|219}} She was not particularly concerned about the effects of what animus magic would have on a dragon, as she was only interested what it could give her.{{Ref|L1|172}} She often spoke in hisses, and was completely willing to eliminate entire tribes if given the chance.{{Ref|L1|252}} She was not prone to expressing effusive gratitude.{{Ref|L1|277}} She was described as foolish{{Ref|L1|308}} and idiotic.{{Ref|L1|310}} Clearsight guessed that Vigilance thought she was better at shielding her thoughts from mind-readers than she really was.{{Ref|L1|254}}


== Quotes ==
== Biography ==
''"What does this slippery IceWing want now?"'' - A thought about Prince Arctic.
=== The Jade Mountain Prophecy ===
==== ''[[Moon Rising (book)|Moon Rising]]'' ====
She was indirectly mentioned in the [[scroll]] ''[[Scrolls#Named scrolls|The Animus Histories]]'' as the NightWing queen Darkstalker planned to overthrow.


''"Not you."''
==== ''[[Talons of Power (book)|Talons of Power]]'' ====
When Darkstalker showed [[Moonwatcher]] and [[Kinkajou]] around the lost city of night, they looked at Queen Vigilance's caves. Darkstalker mentioned that he was surprised the queen was able to take a lot of the treasure with her when she fled.


''"This is?"'' - To Darkstalker about Clearsight.
==== ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'' ====
A self-created illusion of Clearsight mentioned to Darkstalker that he could not be [[king]] since Vigilance was the ruler of the NightWings.
----
=== Legends ===
==== ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]'' ====
Vigilance was the queen of the NightWings. When Arctic told her that his son, Darkstalker, was an [[animus]], she brought [[Fathom]] to the Night Kingdom to help Darkstalker learn to be more careful with his powers. She then hired Clearsight as a seer to help her foresee every possible future the NightWings will be facing, which greatly took up Clearsight's time. She made Clearsight add animus magic to her war predictions, and ordered Darkstalker to cast the spells. When [[Allknowing]] told Queen Vigilance about Darkstalker's plan to kill her and take the throne, she attempted to have him assassinated by [[Quickdeath]]. This failed and led to Clearsight yelling at the queen, which in return almost put her into arrest. Vigilance was part of the crowd when Darkstalker murdered Arctic, and presumably fled to the NightWing Island along with her tribe after Clearsight's warning.
----
=== Winglets ===
==== ''[[Runaway]]'' ====
Vigilance was briefly mentioned when [[Foeslayer]] thought about the magic bracelets the [[IceWings]] possessed, and how she sent four NightWings to their [[Ice Kingdom|kingdom]] so that they would reveal that they had [[Animus enchantments|four magic bracelets]], not three, as they claimed.
----
=== Field Guides ===
==== ''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]'' ====
Vigilance was the main focus of the scroll ''On Queen Vigilance's Glass Jubilee'', a scroll about Vigilance's achievements as queen, especially her Glass Jubilee.


''"How straightforward."''
== Family tree ==
{{Royal NightWing Family Tree}}


''"Share your mumbo jumbo."''
== Quotes ==
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Ah. [...] Seers. Always so illuminating. You may speak.
|speaker = to Clearsight
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
|page    = 218
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Yes. [...] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an underwater attack focused on [[North Beach]] in the next month.
|speaker = to Allknowing, comparing her prophecy to Clearsight's vision
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
|page    = 219
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = You work for me now. Move into the palace tonight.
|speaker = to Clearsight
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
|page    = 220
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Call a war council meeting. [...] I want everything you know about this attack written out by morning.
|speaker = to a NightWing general and Clearsight
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
|page    = 220
}}
----
{{SingleQuote
|quote  = Hmm. [...] And of all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?
|speaker = to Clearsight
|book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
|page    = 305
}}


''"And all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?" ''
== Trivia ==
* Vigilance was awake at all hours.{{Ref|L1|216}}
* Vigilance often held parties.{{Ref|L1|274}}


''"Very poetic."''
== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Vigilance GN 2.png|Vigilance from ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Jake Parker]]
</gallery>


''"You work for me now."'' - To Clearsight
<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Jake Parker]], from ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)]]''">
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Allknowing and Vigilance GN 1.png
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</gallery>


==Trivia ==
== References ==
*Vigilance is the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties.
{{References}}
*Vigilance is one of the thirteen mentioned NightWings with a single word for a name.


== Gallery ==
{{Gallery Hider/start}}<gallery navigation="true">
Typical NightWing by Sassy the Beagle.jpg|A typical NightWing (colored), by [[Joy Ang]]
NightTransparent.png|A typical NightWing (lineart), by [[Joy Ang]]
German nightwing.jpg|A typical NightWing from the German publication, by [[Max Meinzold]]
NightWing Sigil.png|NightWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing
vigilance.png|Queen Vigilance by fandomstuckportal on Tumblr
NightWing by VoidLegend.png|By VoidLegend
IMG 4452 e1137593d6.JPG|Map in which her name and palace are found
By Your Throne by SoIm.png|Queen Vigilance by SoIm
File-IMG 1273.png|Queen Vigilance by me, Saburra-the-SandWing
VigilancePalaceClose.png|Vigilance's Palace
5A5D04D0-41BC-4114-A682-BAE469E80C74.png|Queen Vigilance by Riftlight
669869.png|Vigilance by Ta-ak|link=https://ta-ak.deviantart.com/art/H-A-D-Queen-Vigilance-712912132
5F2B0AF4-3D17-4812-B5A1-3B00658AA468.jpeg|Queen vigilance by me
sddefault_kindlephoto-96391288.jpg|Queen Vigilance
Queen Vigilance.png|Queen Vigilance Reference by Drachen Hybride
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{{Gallery Hider/end}}
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Latest revision as of 10:02, 4 November 2025

"Yes. [...] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an underwater attack focused on North Beach in the next month."
— Vigilance to Allknowing, Darkstalker

Vigilance was an adult female NightWing who was introduced in Darkstalker. She ruled as queen of the NightWings during Darkstalker's era. After Clearsight's warning, she fled from the lost city of night to the NightWing island alongside her tribe.

Description

Vigilance had sharp,[1] glinting,[2] pitch-black eyes.[3] She wore an ostentatious crown, and her wings were loaded with diamonds.[4] Arctic described her as regal and radiant.[4] She had a thin and sinister smile.[1]

Personality

Vigilance was sharp,[5] glowering,[6] suspicious,[7] intimidating, and shrewd. A large amount of her apparent menace came from the fact that she spoke very little, allowing the dragons around her to fill in all the gaps with their own nervous chatter. She was also deeply paranoid, killing off perceived threats long before they were genuinely dangerous. She was anxious and shortsighted, and she was not very susceptible to flattery, as she found compliments highly suspicious.[4] She enjoyed trifling with nervous dragons by remaining silent.[8] She loved conducting business whenever it might seem peculiar to other dragons,[9] and adopted an aura of furiousness[10] and chilly stillness when she was displeased.[11] She was not particularly concerned about the effects of what animus magic would have on a dragon, as she was only interested what it could give her.[12] She often spoke in hisses, and was completely willing to eliminate entire tribes if given the chance.[13] She was not prone to expressing effusive gratitude.[14] She was described as foolish[5] and idiotic.[15] Clearsight guessed that Vigilance thought she was better at shielding her thoughts from mind-readers than she really was.[16]

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising

She was indirectly mentioned in the scroll The Animus Histories as the NightWing queen Darkstalker planned to overthrow.

Talons of Power

When Darkstalker showed Moonwatcher and Kinkajou around the lost city of night, they looked at Queen Vigilance's caves. Darkstalker mentioned that he was surprised the queen was able to take a lot of the treasure with her when she fled.

Darkness of Dragons

A self-created illusion of Clearsight mentioned to Darkstalker that he could not be king since Vigilance was the ruler of the NightWings.

Legends

Darkstalker

Vigilance was the queen of the NightWings. When Arctic told her that his son, Darkstalker, was an animus, she brought Fathom to the Night Kingdom to help Darkstalker learn to be more careful with his powers. She then hired Clearsight as a seer to help her foresee every possible future the NightWings will be facing, which greatly took up Clearsight's time. She made Clearsight add animus magic to her war predictions, and ordered Darkstalker to cast the spells. When Allknowing told Queen Vigilance about Darkstalker's plan to kill her and take the throne, she attempted to have him assassinated by Quickdeath. This failed and led to Clearsight yelling at the queen, which in return almost put her into arrest. Vigilance was part of the crowd when Darkstalker murdered Arctic, and presumably fled to the NightWing Island along with her tribe after Clearsight's warning.

Winglets

Runaway

Vigilance was briefly mentioned when Foeslayer thought about the magic bracelets the IceWings possessed, and how she sent four NightWings to their kingdom so that they would reveal that they had four magic bracelets, not three, as they claimed.

Field Guides

A Guide to the Dragon World

Vigilance was the main focus of the scroll On Queen Vigilance's Glass Jubilee, a scroll about Vigilance's achievements as queen, especially her Glass Jubilee.

Family tree

Vigilance
Several Dragons
Several Generations
UnknownBattlewinner
Greatness


Quotes

"Ah. [...] Seers. Always so illuminating. You may speak."
― to Clearsight (Darkstalker, page 218)
"Yes. [...] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an underwater attack focused on North Beach in the next month."
― to Allknowing, comparing her prophecy to Clearsight's vision (Darkstalker, page 219)
"You work for me now. Move into the palace tonight."
― to Clearsight (Darkstalker, page 220)
"Call a war council meeting. [...] I want everything you know about this attack written out by morning."
― to a NightWing general and Clearsight (Darkstalker, page 220)
"Hmm. [...] And of all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?"
― to Clearsight (Darkstalker, page 305)

Trivia

  • Vigilance was awake at all hours.[9]
  • Vigilance often held parties.[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Darkstalker, page 257
  2. ↑ Darkstalker, page 218
  3. ↑ Darkstalker, page 306
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Darkstalker, page 177
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Darkstalker, page 308
  6. ↑ Darkstalker, page 251
  7. ↑ Darkstalker, page 181
  8. ↑ Darkstalker, page 178
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Darkstalker, page 216
  10. ↑ Darkstalker, page 307
  11. ↑ Darkstalker, page 219
  12. ↑ Darkstalker, page 172
  13. ↑ Darkstalker, page 252
  14. ↑ Darkstalker, page 277
  15. ↑ Darkstalker, page 310
  16. ↑ Darkstalker, page 254
  17. ↑ Darkstalker, page 274


NightWings
Queens

Present: Battlewinner • Darkstalker • Glory
Historical: Vigilance

Royalty

Greatness

Jade Mountain

Bigtail • Fatespeaker • Fearless • Mightyclaws • Mindreader • Moonwatcher • Starflight

Other Dragons
(Present)

Bonecruncher • Deadlyclaws • Deathbringer • Eclipse • Farsight • Fierceteeth • Mastermind • Morrowseer • Obsidian • Preyhunter • Quickstrike • Secretkeeper • Shapeshifter • Slaughter • Smokeseer • Stonemover • Strongwings • Vengeance • Wisdom

Other Dragons
(Historical)

Allknowing • Clearsight • Discretion • Foeslayer • Foreseer • Jewel-eyes • Listener • Morrowwatcher • Prudence • Quickdeath • Starclaws • Swiftwings • Thoughtful • Truthfinder • Tunesmith • Vision

Hybrids

Darkstalker • Whiteout • Eclipse • Fierceclaws • Peacemaker • Shadowhunter • Sunny • Firefly • Commodore • Jewel • Orange • Tortoiseshell • Tortoiseshell

Folklore

Comet • Mindhealer • The Prophetess

Kingdom

NightWing island: NightWing tunnels
Lost city of night: Renewal
Rainforest Kingdom: NightWing village

Kingdom
(Historical)

Lost city of night: Borderland Mountain • Clearsight's home • Darkstalker's home • Great Diamond • Museum • NightWing library • NightWing palace • NightWing school • North Beach

Society

NightWing Exodus


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