Jerboa

Template:SpoilerTDG (Not to be confused with Jerboa II, Jerboa's daughter, who appears in Darkness of Dragons.)

Jerboa was an adult female SandWing who was mentioned in Talons of Power. She lived during the time period of Darkstalker, and was an animus dragon who allegedly created several ancient SandWing treasures, including the Eye of Onyx. She eventually fled the SandWing court, becoming a fugitive.

Biography

Jerboa was an animus SandWing who worked for Queen Scorpion of the SandWings. She used her power for her queen until Queen Scorpion asked things of her that would cause large harm to other tribes. She fled and started to get lonely. She enchanted an animal's egg to be a dragon egg and she became its mother. She named the dragonet Jerboa after herself. Jerboa II was a female dragonet who was at first normal until Jerboa started to enchant her to do the hard tasks and chores and overall be agreeable and perfect. Jerboa II asked to be called Boa to be separate from her mother. Jerboa restarted Boa to a dragonet many times as well as abduct dragons of different tribes enchanting them to be their servants. Boa asked to be an animus dragon many times but always forgot it when Jerboa enchanted her to "fear animus magic" or "not be interested". Even after she enchanted Boa, Boa kept asking. Soon enough Boa gave up and instead asked Jerboa for an animus enchanted item. A shell necklace that would bring Boa to Jerboa any time she wished. They had lived eleven centuries when Boa asked for another item, porcupine quills tied together with a vine that would freeze her prey so she could catch it easier. The next day Boa pointed the quills at Jerboa freezing her in place. Boa interrogated Jerboa asking her how many animus spells were on her and told her that she knew about a scroll on which Jerboa wrote down all her spells that she wanted on Boa. Boa confessed that she wrote down she wanted to be an animus. By that time the porcupine quills had frozen Jerboa in a block of magical ice sealing her in forever. Jerboa left one lasting magic effect on Boa: I enchant this dragon to lose a part of herself with every enchantment she makes until she is dead". Boa started calling herself Jerboa and enchanted a frozen Jerboa under their house making the magic enchantment that brought Boa back to Jerboa bring Boa back to their hut. Boa enchanted herself to remember everything because she lost her memory with every spell and lost a claw. She realized what her mother had done and enchanted her shell necklace to conceal what the spells did to her and lost another claw. She never used her magic until she realized that there was more than one animus dragon out in the world a lie Jerboa told Boa and she enchanted a crystal candle holder to not let any new animus spells be cast.

Pre-Series

Eye of Onyx Jerboa was commissioned by an unknown SandWing queen to create the Eye of Onyx — an enchanted necklace with an onyx set in the pendant — to keep the queen in power. Instead, Jerboa enchanted the Eye to choose rightful queens regardless of the royal bloodline and kill those who are not worthy who try to take the throne. This is presumably the reason Jerboa was forced to flee her tribe and become a fugitive to the law. Jerboa most likely had her daughter, Jerboa II, while she was in hiding.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Talons of Power
When Turtle tried to convince Anemone she doesn't have to be evil just because she is an animus dragon, he mentions Jerboa as an example of someone who stayed good.

Darkness of Dragons
Although not mentioned by name, Thorn told Qibli that she feels that the Eye of Onyx was created by a dragon with "wisdom and goodness in her heart." Later, in the epilogue, Jerboa II introduced herself as not the original Jerboa, but her daughter.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Dangerous Gift
Jerboa is shone at all as herself but her backstory is shone when Queen Snowfall enters Jerboa using the Gift of Vision and finds out about Jerboa and Jerboa II therefore learning why animus magic is gone.

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Legends

Darkstalker
While reading Arctic's mind, Darkstalker heard him think briefly of Jerboa when he listed all of the known animus dragons of Pyrrhia.

Relationships

Jerboa II

Jerboa II is her "daughter" who we don't know really felt about her but Jerboa loved her but still enchanted her to be better. Jerboa enchanted Jerboa II or Boa into existence.

Family Tree

Jerboa

Jerboa II

Jerboa III