Vermilion

"Your Majesty, the facts are clear. You gave an order. Kestrel disobeyed you and fled the kingdom. She has been living under your mountains for the last seven years, aiding and abetting the Talons of Peace, who also refuse to follow Your Majesty's orders. She deserves a long, painful execution. There is no need to drag this trial out."

— Vermilion to Scarlet, The Dragonet Prophecy

Vermilion is an adult SkyWing prince who was introduced in The Dragonet Prophecy.

He was the announcer for the SkyWing arena before Queen Ruby's succession to the throne. As of Escaping Peril, he resides in the SkyWing palace.

Appearance

Vermilion has bright red scales, blood-red wings, a pink underside, and orange eyes. He towers over Ruby.

Personality

Vermilion was a former loyal supporter of Scarlet, but he became loyal to Queen Ruby once he realized that she was a better queen. His loyalty towards Scarlet was born out of fear, likely from watching so many of his siblings die at Scarlet's talons - he switched allegiance to Ruby almost immediately after Scarlet's disappearance, and ignored all of his mother's dreamvisitor messages to him. Once Scarlet returned, Vermilion half-heartedly obeyed her orders, showing that his fear of his mother still had a strong hold on him. Vermilion seems to have a lot of interests, from being an announcer in the SkyWing Arena, a prosecutor, and is even interested in owning a pet scavenger like Smolder's.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Dragonet Prophecy

Vermilion, although unnamed at the time, was the announcer for the fight between Horizon and Peril, making weak jokes about the battle to come. After that, he announced the fight between Clay and Fjord; he is shown to be Scarlet's herald in her arena. Later on, Vermilion stood as the prosecutor during Kestrel's trial, where he awkwardly claimed his mother's side to avoid anger from her. The next day, he announced the battles for his mother's hatching day. Tsunami attempted to attack him before her fight with Gill, however, her chains kept her from fighting him.

The Brightest Night

Vermillion is mentioned in a letter from Smolder to him about his pet scavenger, Flower, and how to take care for one is featured at the end of the Collector's Edition. The letter explained how to protect your scavenger, as someone could eat it "by accident," to protect your belongings because it would try to make little things out of the cloth, what to feed it and to supply water daily. Smolder ends the letter requesting Vermilion to send him a picture of his when he got it, and comments on the picture Flower drew of him and her; this letter appears to indicate that Vermillion is interested in getting a pet scavenger and has, presumably, made plans with the SandWing.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Winter Turning
The same letter that was featured in the Collector's Edition of The Brightest Night was also at the end of Winter Turning, talking about how to raise a pet scavenger.

Escaping Peril

In this book, Vermilion was shown as a loyal supporter of the new SkyWing queen, Queen Ruby. When Scarlet found him, she questioned him about what happened since she "left the Kingdom," as well as saying that she attempted to dreamvisit and tell him to kill his sister many times; she knew he'd been hearing her, yet tactfully ignoring her orders in his continuing loyalty towards Ruby. To her outrage as she noted the lack of treasure, Vermilion replied that Ruby used almost all of the SkyWing treasure to transform the SkyWing Arena into a hospital for dragons that were injured during the war, hiring dragons from all of the different tribes to teach and assist her healers in helping heal injured dragons. He was also accused of liking Ruby more than Scarlet and was forced to help Peril (who was under a spell at the time) to take Cliff into custody and guard him.

Relationships

Scarlet

He was loyal to his mother during her reign, which helped keep a stable relationship with Scarlet. She entrusted him with announcing arena battles as well as arguing for persecution. However, it has been shown that his loyalty sprung out of fear. He is ultimately more loyal to Ruby due to being a better queen.

Smolder

Following the end of the war, he seems to have become somewhat friendly with Smolder — the two share an interest in keeping scavengers as pets.

Ruby

Vermilion seemed to be rather close to his sister Ruby since he didn’t kill her as Scarlet demanded. He also preferred Ruby as queen over Scarlet.

Family Tree

Carmine

Sunset

Several Generations

More

Firestorm

Unknown

Canyon

Scarlet

3 Dragons

Vermilion

Hawk

11 Dragons

2 Dragons

Ruby

Unknown

Cliff

Quotes

"After four wins, Horizon the SandWing — formerly, and unwisely, a soldier in Blaze's army — has been challenged to a match with the Queen's Champion, Peril. Claws up, fire ready! Fight!"

― announcing a match between Horizon and Peril

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"After last month's battle with Blaze's army, our queen's dungeons were stuffed with IceWing prisoners of war. Only nine have survived. After two wins, I give you — Fjord of the IceWings! […] And in this corner, an unusual case — a MudWing, but not one of our allies. No, this dragonet was found hiding under our mountains, protected by the Talons of Peace. Is he one of the dragonets of destiny? Not if he loses this battle! […] If these prophesied dragonets are as wonderful and legendary as they're supposed to be, this should be a showdown to remember. I hope you're prepared to impress us, dragon of the mud. I present to you … Clay of the MudWings! Claws up, teeth ready! Fight!"

― announcing a match between Fjord and Clay

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"Your Majesty, […] The facts are clear. You gave an order. Kestrel disobeyed you and fled the kingdom. She has been living under your mountains for the last seven years, aiding and abetting the Talons of Peace, who also refuse to follow Your Majesty's orders. She deserves a long, painful execution. There is no need to drag this trial out."

― during Kestrel's trial

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"She turned your arena into a hospital, […] She pardoned all the prisoners and brought in doctors and healers from other tribes to teach ours everything they know and she made space for all the wounded soldiers from the war and she's been finding them all places to live and jobs to do and using the gold for all of that."

― to Scarlet, about Ruby

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"No! […] Never! You're the only good queen! I liked my arena job! It's absolutely terrible here now! We always loved the, uh, the fighting! We missed you so much!"

― to Scarlet

Trivia

• In The Dragonet Prophecy (graphic novel), Vermillion doesn't announce all of the arena fights as he did in the original mainstream novel. In the graphic novel, Queen Scarlet herself announces all of the battles before the ones occurring on her hatching day instead.

Gallery

• Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
  Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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  Vermilion from The Dragonet Prophecy (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

References

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