Jerboa

Template:SpoilerTDG (Not to be confused with her daughter Jerboa III, or her first attempt at creating a dragonet, Jerboa II.)

Jerboa was an adult female SandWing and an animus dragon. She lived during the time period of Darkstalker, working for Queen Scorpion before fleeing and becoming a fugitive. She is currently frozen in an ice block under Jerboa III's hut.

Appearance

She looks similar to her daughter, Jerboa III.

Personality

After leaving the Kingdom of Sand Jerboa had a voice in her head judging whether her thoughts and actions were evil; over the course of centuries, this voice faded. She was lazy and cruel, enchanting other dragons to do what she wanted, serve her, or to do things for her entertainment.

Jerboa yearned for freedom and wanted a dragonet of her own. She was manipulative and controlling of her daughter, Boa, regularly tweaking her personality to make her "better." She desired perfection, casting many spells on Boa to keep her entertaining, helpful, and obedient, and was hypocritical, often critiquing Boa for being lazy while enchanting her to enjoy things that Jerboa didn't want to do herself.

Biography

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. She used her power for Queen Scorpion until Scorpion asked for things that would cause large harm to other tribes, including the SkyWings. Jerboa fled and enchanted an animal's egg to be a dragon egg. She named the dragonet Jerboa after herself, but the dragonet asked to be called Boa to be different from her mother. She started to enchant Boa to do the hard tasks and chores and be agreeable and perfect and reset her to a dragonet many times. Jerboa also abducted dragons from different tribes, enchanting them to be their servants. Jerboa enchanted Boa to "fear animus magic" or "not be interested" but Boa still asked Jerboa for an animus enchanted item; she gave her a shell necklace that would bring Boa to Jerboa any time she wished. They had lived eleven centuries when Boa asked for another enchantment, which was on 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. Boa said she found a scroll where Jerboa wrote down all her spells that she wanted on Boa, and revealed that she wrote down for her 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 made until she was dead."

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

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

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

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Dangerous Gift

Jerboa is shown in Queen Snowfall's vision, where she saw how Jerboa had treated Jerboa III. Jerboa tweaked her daughter's personality to her liking, occasionally even resetting her to a young dragonet. Eventually, Jerboa III found out about all of her mother's enchantments on her and froze her with enchanted porcupine quills. The block of ice in which she is frozen in remains under Jerboa III's hut.

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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 was Jerboa's first attempt at creating her own dragonet with animus magic. Jerboa later got rid of her because she "went wrong," though the details of this situation are unknown. Jerboa had planned to never speak about her again.^{[page # needed]}

Jerboa III

Jerboa III, nicknamed Boa, is her second daughter. Jerboa regularly manipulated her daughter’s personality with magic, making her more agreeable, more obedient, more helpful, and less annoying. She would enchant Boa to enjoy tasks she disliked, be a talented musician or storyteller, to love her mother more, and a variety of other things.^{[page # needed]} Jerboa would also "reset" Boa to a dragonet when she got bored, wiping her memories and reverting her growth.

Their relationship was severely strained, with Boa running away several times through the centuries. During Jerboa's final moments she cast a spell to hurt Boa whenever she used her magic, ensuring that she would never forget her mother.

Scorpion

Jerboa served Queen Scorpion under duress, and fled after refusing to enchant something that threatened the SkyWings. While under her control she was kept away from other dragons, tortured by the queen, and made to enchant her with healing and longevity. She believed that Scorpion would use a child against her if the queen found out she had one.

Family Tree

Jerboa

Jerboa II

Jerboa III

Known Enchantments

Phrasing	Target	Intention
"Unknown phrasing."	A necklace with a gold-winged onyx cabochon pendant.	To determine whether a SandWing is fit to be queen.
"But I could steal someone else's egg and change the dragon inside into a SandWing like me."	An animal's egg	To hatch the egg into a SandWing dragonet. Cast multiple times.
"Unknown phrasing."	Jerboa III	To revert Boa's age. Cast multiple times.
"This seashell will bring Boa to her mother instantly, at just a flicker of a thought from either one of them."	A small shell	To bring Boa to her when either of them wished.
""When I point this at my prey," she'd said, "I want them to freeze in place, so I can catch them more easily.""	Porcupine quills	To freeze Boa's prey in place.
"But it was getting so hard to keep track of them, and some of them were complicated … it was just easier to make an enchanted scroll where she could write down whatever she wanted to change about Boa, and it would happen."	A scroll	To change Boa according to what was written.
"Unknown phrasing."	Jerboa	To extend her own lifespan.
"Which won't be for a long time, thanks to those healing and longevity spells Jerboa was forced to make for her."	Queen Scorpion	To extend her lifespan and heal her.
"Unknown phrasing."	Jerboa III	To torment Boa by making her lose a part of her body every time she casts a spell.

Gallery

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  Jerboa on the Barnes & Noble special edition of The Dangerous Gift, by Joy Ang