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| {{Infobox Location
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| |name = Kingdom of Sand
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| Kingdom of Sand TBN.png|Cover
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| File:Sand Kingdom Map.png|On the Map
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| </gallery>
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| The '''Kingdom of Sand''' is the second-largest Kingdom in [[Pyrrhia]], after the [[Sky Kingdom]], and is home to the [[SandWings]], a desert-dwelling [[Dragons|dragon]] tribe. It occupies the southwestern portion of the continent, stretching from the [[Claws of the Clouds Mountains]] of the Sky Kingdom, to the edge of the [[Ice Kingdom]], the previous [[Lost city of night|NightWing Kingdom]], and the bordering parts of the ocean. [[Pantala]] can be found to the west of the Kingdom of Sand.
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| == Description ==
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| The Kingdom of Sand is mostly sandy desert, with frequent rocky outcroppings, as shown on the cover of [[The Brightest Night (book)|''The Brightest Night'']]. Water is rare, so towns cluster around oases and rivers. Where it borders with the Ice Kingdom, sandy desert gives way to rocky tundra.
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| The [[Scorpion Den|Scorpion]][[Scorpion Den| Den]] is in the far south, with an oasis in the center, where [[Dune]] stole [[Sunny]]'s egg. [[SandWing stronghold|Burn's stronghold]] is in the middle of the Kingdom of Sand and used to be the SandWing palace, but [[Burn]] took it over when she was attempting to claim the SandWing throne. The stronghold is now controlled by [[Thorn]].
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| The Kingdom of Sand is full of [[Plants#Medicinal plants|brightsting cactus]], the only known antidote to SandWing poison, and has almost all of it in the Scorpion Den.
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| The prey in the Kingdom of Sand consists of lizards, coyotes, camels, and [[Humans|scavengers]].
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| == Wildlife ==
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| |heading = Wildlife
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| |content = <p></p>
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| * Antelopes
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| ** Springboks
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| * Birds
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| ** Vultures
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| * Camels
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| * Capybaras
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| * Cats
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| ** Sand Cats
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| * Desert foxes
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| ** Fennec Foxes
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| * Hippos
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| * Lizards
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| ** Frilled lizards
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| * Mice
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| * Ostriches
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| * Pronghorns
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| * Scavengers
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| * Scorpions
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| * Snakes
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| ** Cobras
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| ** Sirrocos
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| ** Rattlesnakes
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| ** [[Dragonbite viper]]s
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| ** Vipers
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| * Tarantulas
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| * Beetles
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| ** Scarab Beetles (Darkstalker, chapter 28)
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| }}
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| == [[SandWing stronghold|Queen Thorn's stronghold]] ==
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| Queen Thorn's stronghold is used as a palace for the SandWing tribe. SandWing royalty lives in the stronghold. Instead of looking pretty, though, the stronghold is designed to be less vulnerable to attack. This makes it one of the hardest places to destroy in Pyrrhia. The stronghold used to look more menacing, with enemy heads on spikes and Burn's weirdling tower, but when Queen Thorn took over, she removed those features.
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| == [[Scorpion Den]] ==
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| The Scorpion Den is a famous city in the Kingdom of Sand. It is inhabited by lowlife SandWings and SandWing [[hybrids]]. The Scorpion Den is known to be full of assassins, thieves, con artists, and more, making it a dangerous place to live.
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| == Jerboa's hut ==
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| [[File:Approximate_Jerboa's_Hut_Location_-Created_by_Bloodfrost_of_the_IceWing's.png|thumb|220px|Jerboa's hut on the map of [[Pyrrhia]], by [[Mike Schley]]]]
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| [[Jerboa II]]'s Hut is located on the northwest coast of the [[Kingdom of Sand]]. It is the home of Jerboa II, daughter of the original [[Jerboa]].
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| The hut is made of wood and has a palm frond roof, and is located near the ocean in the western region of the Kingdom of Sand, said to be just past the small the furthest-north oasis, shown near the Ice Kingdom on the map.
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| It is first seen in the epilogue of [[Darkness of Dragons|''Darkness of Dragons'']] when [[Qibli]] and [[Moonwatcher]] travel there due to Moon's vision and meet [[Luna]], then seen again in [[The Lost Continent (book)|''The Lost Continent'']]'s epilogue. Luna is described as their first visitor from the Lost Continent.
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| == History==
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| === ''[[Darkstalker (Legends)|Darkstalker]]'' ===
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| [[Scorpion]] allowed the [[NightWings]] and [[IceWings]] to battle there, in return for large piles of treasure from both tribes.
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| === ''[[The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden Kingdom]]'' ===
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| [[Glory]] found an animus-touched [[NightWing tunnels|tunnel]] in the [[Rainforest Kingdom]] that leads to the Kingdom of Sand. She described the desert as "always hot and clear with no rainy days". The tunnel is hidden by sand right outside of Burn's stronghold, and the wind blows sand to cover it up every single day, which is why Burn had not discovered the tunnel entrance. The NightWings had wanted the tunnel there so that when [[Blister]] became [[queen]], she could help them seize the rainforest.
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| === ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]'' ===
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| The Kingdom of Sand is the main setting of ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]'', where Sunny meets Thorn and her [[Outclaws]] in the Scorpion Den and [[Smolder]] in Burn's stronghold, and where the next SandWing queen is chosen (Burn's stronghold).
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| == Trivia ==
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| *If [[Blaze]] had won the [[War of SandWing Succession|war]], the Kingdom would be smaller, as the IceWings would now own the northern part; Blaze promised them that piece of land if they won the war.
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| == Gallery ==
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| {{Gallery Hider/start}}<gallery>
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| Thk-sand.png|The Kingdom of Sand from ''[[The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel)]]'', by [[Mike Holmes]]
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| Sand Kingdom Map.png|The Kingdom of Sand on the map of [[Pyrrhia]], by [[Mike Schley]]
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| Kingdom of Sand Zoomed .png|The Kingdom of Sand up close on the map of Pyrrhia, by [[Mike Schley]]
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| Wings of Fire 5 Full.jpg|The Kingdom of Sand on the full cover of ''[[The Brightest Night (book)|The Brightest Night]]'', by [[Joy Ang]]
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| Winglets01.png|The Kingdom of Sand on the cover of ''[[Prisoners]]'', by Joy Ang
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| Sand kingdom.png|The Kingdom of Sand from Scholastic HomeBase
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| </gallery>
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| {{Gallery Hider/end}}
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| {{SandWing Navbox}}
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| [[fr:Royaume de Sable|fr: Royaume de Sable]]
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| [[pl:Królestwo Piasku|pl: Królestwo Piasku]]
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| [[ru:Песчаное королевство|ru: Песчаное королевство]]
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