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"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

Unknown

Battlewinner

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]

Gallery

Vigilance from Darkstalker (graphic novel), by Jake Parker

Art by Jake Parker, from Darkstalker (graphic novel)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Darkstalker, page 257
↑ Darkstalker, page 218
↑ Darkstalker, page 306
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Darkstalker, page 177
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Darkstalker, page 308
↑ Darkstalker, page 251
↑ Darkstalker, page 181
↑ Darkstalker, page 178
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Darkstalker, page 216
↑ Darkstalker, page 307
↑ Darkstalker, page 219
↑ Darkstalker, page 172
↑ Darkstalker, page 252
↑ Darkstalker, page 277
↑ Darkstalker, page 310
↑ Darkstalker, page 254
↑ 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

de:Vigilance fr:Vigilante pl:Czujność ru:Зоркость

[L1257-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Darkstalker, page 257

[L1218-2] Darkstalker, page 218

[L1306-3] Darkstalker, page 306

[L1177-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Darkstalker, page 177

[L1308-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Darkstalker, page 308

[L1251-6] Darkstalker, page 251

[L1181-7] Darkstalker, page 181

[L1178-8] Darkstalker, page 178

[L1216-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Darkstalker, page 216

[L1307-10] Darkstalker, page 307

[L1219-11] Darkstalker, page 219

[L1172-12] Darkstalker, page 172

[L1252-13] Darkstalker, page 252

[L1277-14] Darkstalker, page 277

[L1310-15] Darkstalker, page 310

[L1254-16] Darkstalker, page 254

[L1274-17] Darkstalker, page 274

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-|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 [[Arctic]], ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
+|speaker = Vigilance to [[Allknowing]], ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
 }}
-{{Charbox
+{{Character
-|name       = Queen Vigilance
+|name      = Vigilance
-|image      = NightTransparent.png
+|image     = Vigilance GN 2.png
-|age        = Older than 40 years at last appearance (roughly 3,012 AS)
+|age       = Older than 40 years at last appearance (roughly 3,012 AS)
-|gender     = Female
+|gender    = Female
-|tribe      = [[NightWings]]
+|tribe     = [[NightWings]]
-|occupation = Queen of the NightWings
+|powers    =
-|residence  =
-|status     = Deceased
+|status    = Deceased
-|Relation1  = Offspring
-|RName1     = Several sons and three daughters
+|current   =
-|Relation2  = Descendants
+|former    = [[Queen]] of the [[NightWings]]
-|RName2     = [[Battlewinner]], [[Princess Greatness]]
-|appeared   = ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''
+|Relation1 = Daughters
-|mentioned  = ''[[Moon Rising]]'', ''[[Talons of Power (Book)|Talons of Power]]'', ''[[Darkness of Dragons]]'', ''[[Runaway]]''
+|RName1    = Unnamed NightWings
+|Relation2 = Sons
+|RName2    = At least three unnamed NightWings
+|Relation12 = Descendants
+|RName12    = [[Greatness]], [[Battlewinner]] (possibly)
+|a2App     =
+|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]]''
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+|wiApp     =
+|wiMen     = ''[[Runaway]]''
+|otFeat    = ''[[A Guide to the Dragon World]]''
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-'''Queen Vigilance''' was an adult female [[NightWing]], and [[Dragon Queens|queen]] of the tribe during the time of [[Darkstalker]]. She first appeared in ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]''. She had three unnamed heirs and several sons. She is presumed to have escaped to the [[NightWing Island]] with [[Listener]] after [[Clearsight]]'s warning.
+'''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.
-== Appearance ==
-Queen Vigilance was described to have "darting, ink-black eyes" which were "very suspecting." In addition, she had diamonds embedded under her wings and wore an obsidian crown.
-She was described as very imposing, as none of her daughters had challenged her in the past years.
+== Description ==
+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 ==
-Queen Vigilance was shown to be very paranoid, and often killed dragons long before they ever became a significant threat to her tribe. However, she seemed to be very trusting of seers (such as Clearsight and Allknowing), and it was stated that it would not have been hard for a seer to manipulate her. She was known to be very ambitious, and sometimes even greedy. She may have been 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 happy with them. However, her seers are not nearly as powerful as Clearsight, and so that sentiment is understandable. Vigilance often used her power as queen to get seers to describe her possible deaths. It was stated that she had a public prison, where she put prisoners on display. She seemed to care about her job as queen and enjoy the power. She evidently held some contempt or hatred for IceWings, as shown by Clearsight's visions of Queen Vigilance carrying out the genocide of the IceWings. In addition, she was not comfortable around obvious hybrids, as she excluded Whiteout from invitations to her court.
+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}}
 == Biography ==
 === The Jade Mountain Prophecy ===
-==== ''[[Moon Rising]]'' ====
+==== ''[[Moon Rising (book)|Moon Rising]]'' ====
-She was mentioned in the scroll [[The Animus Histories]] as the NightWing Queen [[Darkstalker]] planned to overthrow.
+She was indirectly mentioned in the [[scroll]] ''[[Scrolls#Named scrolls|The Animus Histories]]'' as the NightWing queen Darkstalker planned to overthrow.
-==== ''[[Talons of Power (Book)|Talons of Power]]'' ====
+==== ''[[Talons of Power (book)|Talons of Power]]'' ====
-When [[Darkstalker]] showed [[Moonwatcher]] and [[Kinkajou]] around the [[The Lost City of Night|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.
+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 Queen Vigilance rules the [[NightWings]].
+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]]'' ====
-In ''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 hired Clearsight as a seer to help her win the war against the IceWings. When Allknowing told Queen Vigilance about Darkstalker’s plan to take the throne, she attempted to have him assassinated. She presumably fled to the NightWing Island with her tribe after Clearsight’s warning.
+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]]'' ====
-Queen Vigilance was briefly mentioned when [[Foeslayer]] thought about the magic bracelets the [[IceWings]] possessed, and how she sent four members to their [[Ice Kingdom|kindom]] so that they would reveal that they had four magic bracelets, not three, as they claimed.
+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.
-== Family Tree ==
+== Family tree ==
 {{Royal NightWing Family Tree}}
 == Quotes ==
 {{SingleQuote
-|quote   = Ah, [...] Seers. Always so illuminating. You may speak.
+|quote   = Ah. [...] Seers. Always so illuminating. You may speak.
-|speaker =
+|speaker = to Clearsight
 |book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
-|page    =
+|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.
+|quote   = Yes. [...] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an underwater attack focused on [[North Beach]] in the next month.
-|speaker =
+|speaker = to Allknowing, comparing her prophecy to Clearsight's vision
 |book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
-|page    =
+|page    = 219
 }}
 ----
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 |speaker = to Clearsight
 |book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
-|page    =
+|page    = 220
 }}
 ----
 {{SingleQuote
 |quote   = Call a war council meeting. [...] I want everything you know about this attack written out by morning.
-|speaker =
+|speaker = to a NightWing general and Clearsight
 |book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
-|page    =
+|page    = 220
 }}
 ----
 {{SingleQuote
-|quote   = Hmm, [...] And of all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?
+|quote   = Hmm. [...] And of all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?
-|speaker =
+|speaker = to Clearsight
 |book    = [[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]
-|page    =
+|page    = 305
 }}
-[[fr:Vigilance]]
+== Trivia ==
-[[ru:Зоркость]]
+* Vigilance was awake at all hours.{{Ref|L1|216}}
+* Vigilance often held parties.{{Ref|L1|274}}
+== Gallery ==
+<gallery>
+Vigilance GN 2.png|Vigilance from ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Jake Parker]]
+</gallery>
+<gallery widths="80" heights="80" caption="Art by [[Jake Parker]], from ''[[Darkstalker (graphic novel)]]''">
+Vigilance GN 1.png
+Vigilance GN 3.png
+Vigilance GN 4.png
+Vigilance GN 5.png
+Vigilance GN 6.png
+Vigilance GN 7.png
+Vigilance GN 8.png
+Vigilance GN 9.png
+Vigilance GN 10.png
+Vigilance GN 11.png
+Vigilance GN 12.png
+Vigilance GN 13.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 1.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 2.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 3.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 4.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 5.png
+Allknowing and Vigilance GN 6.png
+</gallery>
+== References ==
+{{References}}
+{{NightWing Navbox}}
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+[[fr:Vigilante]]
+[[pl:Czujność]]
+[[ru:Зоркость]]
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+[[Category:Appeared in Darkstalker]]
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