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IceWings are white, moon silver, or pale ice blue pigmented dragons with the ability to produce a substance from their lungs known as frostbreath. This substance is exceedingly dangerous and fatal to most dragons they use it on (However, Peril appears to be immune to frostbreath because of her firescales, and is only numbed by it, as revealed in Moon Rising and in Escaping Peril). They reside in the northwestern peninsula of Pyrrhia, where the cold areas are located, or the "head of Pyrrhia", known as the Ice Kingdom. Blaze had the IceWing's support in the War of SandWing Succession. Blaze offered them some of the Northern desert land if she won, since most of the land would have been useless to her. IceWings are divided into seven circles, represented by the gift of order. IceWings have a tradition known as The Diamond Trial.
IceWings and NightWings have absolutely hated each other for many years, going all the way back to a war they fought against each other more than 2000 years before the events of the very first book. This is displayed when Starflight was rescued from the Sky Kingdom arena by Morrowseer and a battalion of NightWings, who slaughtered all the IceWing prisoners without hesitation before leaving. The NightWings also did not include an IceWing egg in the Dragonet Prophecy, also showing their deep hatred for IceWings. This may relate to a tragedy in the IceWings' past that also contributes to NightWing - IceWing hatred. Later, in Darkstalker (Legends), it is revealed that the last IceWing animus, Prince Arctic, wasn't "stolen" from them like they had been told by Queen Diamond. He had left willingly when he fell in love with Foeslayer, a visiting diplomat NightWing. The IceWings waged war on the NightWings because Prince Arctic had left, and even after the war, hatred was still instilled in the IceWings for the NightWings. They seem to dislike associating with dragons in other tribes because they deem themselves superior to them.
They, along with the NightWings, are/were searching for scavenger dens, but unlike the NightWings, it is known why. Queen Glacier ordered them due to the fact she believed that one day they would find the SandWing's treasure, and more specifically, the sacred Eye of Onyx so that they would stop the war and get their land promised by Princess Blaze.
Description
An IceWing's scale pigmentations can range from silvery white colors to pale shades of blue and purple. Their coloring has been described as "silver like the moon", "pale blue like ice", or "the color of the sky-filled snow", although, like the SeaWings, they can have unique coloring. Like Anemone and Albatross these Ice dragons can have coloring of muted lavender or pale pink. Most IceWing scales are shades of light blue. Like RainWings they have a ruff, however theirs is of extra horns, sharp and shaped like icicles on the back of their necks. IceWing heads are usually shaped like diamonds, and in other words, are very narrow. With that in mind, they are very swift, compact, and skinny dragons that also have surprisingly strong but narrow whip-like tails with extra icicle-shaped spines, being very sharp at the tip of the tail. IceWings have blue, black, or stormy gray eyes, forked blue tongues, blue blood, and ridged, extremely sharp talons to grip the ice while traveling by talon around their habitat.
Their claws are described to be "four times sharper than average claws" due to them being serrated.
Abilities
IceWings can kill dragons with a sneer and be AWESOME
Society
The IceWings appear to be pretty sophisticated compared to the other tribes, being the only dragons to have social classes and they seem to be good planners due to their use of the animus IceWings in their tribe.
The IceWings have a class system with the different levels of society labeled with "circle" (ex: the Seventh Circle). They go in order with the First Circle as the highest and most desired class and ends with the Seventh Circle, the lowest and despised. Young IceWings perform tests to determine their rank, and as seen in Winter Turning, there are usually younger dragonets that reside in the Seventh circle. From this, we can assume that IceWing dragonets start at the Seventh circle and work their way up to their determined rank. These tests revolve around every hunt, every fight, and every test of endurance in their earlier years. The place where you rank on your seventh hatching day determines where you will live as an adult. However, the Diamond Trial is also another last minute possibility. It is a test where a low-ranked IceWing challenges the highest-ranked. For the Diamond Trial, the low-ranked dragon must kill the highest ranked dragon in order for him/her to advance to first place. However, this is risky and the challenger may end up getting killed by the dragon that is being challenged. An animus-touched ice wall with the names of all of the dragonets shows their social rank. If a dragonet dies or is exiled for some reason, the name is slashed through. Once a dragonet turns seven, they are moved to the adult rankings, which determine where they live.
IceWings have a strict behavior to uphold- Winter describes it as "undignified" when Moon is hugging her mother.
IceWings are also taught at a young age of their tribe's superiority, and how the NightWings betrayed them. (See scrolls for more on their education.) They seem to think of themselves as the "best" of the tribes, probably because of their education. This seems to result in haughty, snobby behavior around dragons of other tribes.
Click here for a list of known IceWings.
Trivia
- There are 20 known IceWings.
- The first dragon mentioned in the series was an Icewing, Hvitur
- Some IceWings seem to be minimalists, describing Blaze's fortress decorations as 'garish and gaudy', possibly due to the fact that their homeland has very little to offer in the way of decoration: mostly ice and snow.
- Their breath has been referred to as "freezing-death breath" and "frostbreath". Freezing-death breath was used in the first arc, while in the second arc, it is always referred to as "frostbreath". It is highly likely that it was only called "freezing death breath" because they did not know the actual term for it.
- When too warm, IceWings can't use their frostbreath, much like MudWings that can only use flame when they are warm enough.
- In Moon Rising and Winter Turning, it is noted that IceWings have dark blue blood, but in the first book it was described as blue-red. However, aristocrats might literally be "blue-blooded".
- Winter and Icicle have made references to "the great ice dragon" and "snow monsters" which mean they likely have mythological figures, or at least mythology, as they read sagas of IceWing history.
- IceWings eat arctic animals, such as polar bears, arctic foxes, etc. as well as marine animals such as walruses and seals as much of their territory is surrounded by water.
- The IceWing palace is made of unbreakable and unmeltable animus-touched ice.
- They once had animus dragons but the last animus (Prince Arctic) was "stolen" by NightWings, which is why they hate them.
- IceWings have incredibly weak night vision, though it may once have been stronger.
- Fireborn SkyWings are immune to frostbreath, but the area that has been hit by frostbreath does go numb for a moment.
- IceWings were the first known tribe to use their animus in a controlled manner, whereas other tribe's animus dragons were killed before they could use their magic or went insane from magic overuse.
- As shown in Winter Turning, IceWings seem to use "Seal Guts!" as an exclamation of disbelief or frustration.
- Being clawed by an IceWing is described as being clawed "four times with each claw instead of one" by Peril in The Dragonet Prophecy.
- IceWings are portrayed as knowing how to swim, in both Winter Turning, when Hailstorm reflects on how he felt in the body of Pyrite when he saw water, and in Darkstalker (Legends) when two IceWings leap out of the water on a beach to kill some scavengers set loose by Clearsight and Listener before they jumped back into the water and swam away.
- "Please accept my apologies, for I do not recognize your face. I hope I am not bringing great dishonor upon my family" is a stock phrase said to be used by dragonets to get out of trouble. It is also used by Snowflake in Runaway.
- IceWings are shown to have scheduled sleeping times in Runaway. When Prince Arctic is caught out of his room, the Queen sends him back to bed, after talking about the scheduled IceWing sleeping cycle.
- IceWings used to be allied with the SkyWings in the war of SandWing Succession.
- In Winter Turning, Winter's thoughts revealed that IceWings can see very far.
- IceWings are the only tribe to have both known queens dead.
- The first IceWing that was introduced in the books was Hvitur in The Dragonet Prophecy.
- Tui has confirmed that Icewings have accents that are different from any other dragon tribe, probably because they live the most isolated from most dragon tribes.
