Grandeur

"We used to keep track of the royal eggs, but my daughters were useless, so we merged our eggs with the tribe's, hoping to find successors who were queens in spirit, if not blood. There were a few who might have been great if they'd ever tried for the throne, but the truth is, I've never found a dragonet who both wanted to be queen and deserved to be. Until now."

— Grandeur to Glory, The Hidden Kingdom

Grandeur is an elderly female RainWing who appeared in The Hidden Kingdom. She served as queen of the RainWings before reluctantly allowing RainWing volunteers to rotate months on the throne with her. Of the six RainWing queens who ruled before Glory became queen, she was the only one who was a descendant of the original RainWing royal family.

Appearance

Grandeur keeps her scales a pale lavender color, seemingly glittering with tiny dewdrops, and her ruff a pale orange. She is described as a stately older dragon with half-asleep eyes and a sour expression.

Personality

Glory mentioned that she was the only one that gave off a queenly aura. Grandeur was one of the few RainWings that actually acted serious under stress and pressure. Being one of the more responsible queens, she was shown helping to plan for battle and is not afraid to fight against the NightWings.

Granduer was also shown to be fair-minded, wanting to give other RainWings a chance to have a better Queen as well as forfeiting the event to let Kinkajou win.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom

During the contest to determine the queen, Grandeur participated in the venom accuracy test. She was one of the only two RainWing queens who made no known attempt to cheat during her event (the other being Fruit Bat), as she was sure she would win, and was truthful in the claim.

Towards the end of the venom targeting, a sloth fell in front of the target, and Kinkajou dove into the line of venom to push it out of the way. Glory and Grandeur test their venom and find a match to neutralize Kinkajou's injury. This also reveals that Glory is a member of the disbanded RainWing royal family.

Grandeur forfeited, allowing Kinkajou to win, and Glory to become queen. She believed in the royal family, which the RainWings had abandoned, as her daughters were "useless". She told the other queens that Glory would indeed be a better queen than any of them, saying that she had only "allowed them to be queen in hopes that the experience may transform them to be worthy of the throne", which they were not.

The Dark Secret

When Starflight dreamvisited Kinkajou, Grandeur was watching her.

She assisted in activities such as battle planning. Grandeur and Liana were usually working together in Glory's command. She helped to free the RainWings using a spear during the attack on the NightWings.

The Brightest Night

Grandeur assisted Glory in organizing the NightWings when they sought refuge in the rainforest. She and Mangrove were later left in charge of the rainforest while Glory attended the peace summit at Burn's stronghold.

Later, when Sunny is preparing to meet her family, she thinks about how all her friends have some family, Glory having Jambu and Grandeur.

Relationships

Glory

Grandeur sees Glory as a worthy queen and generously crowned her. During Glory's reign as a queen, Granduer was her personal advisor and aided her. Because she is Glory's assistant, she is trustworthy enough to run the kingdom when Glory had left for the Great War's peace summit.

Family Tree

More

Jacaranda

Several Generations

Grandeur

Several Dragons

Quickstrike

Unknown

Jambu

Glory

Deathbringer

Firefly

    = Possible timeline

Quotes

"I know she'll be a better queen than you."

― to Magnificent, about Glory being the new queen

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"Behold! Your new queen! Queen Glory of the RainWings!"

― announcing Glory as Queen of the RainWings

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"It's my throne anyway. I have merely tolerated all of you on it because I thought experience might transform you into worthy queens."

― talking to the (now) ex-queens.

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"We used to keep track of the royal eggs, but my daughters were useless, so we merged our eggs with the tribe's, hoping to find successors who were queens in spirit, if not blood. There were a few who might have been great if they'd ever tried for the throne, but the truth is, I've never found a dragonet who both wanted to be queen and deserved to be. Until now."

― to Glory

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"I remember when we actually needed our camouflage, to protect ourselves from invading dragons. It wasn't a game back then. It was what we had to do to survive."

― when Handsome says one of the challenges is camouflage

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"I could do it. Attack another dragon with my venom, I mean, for the sake of my tribe. But I agree, the others would have trouble."

― when Glory mentioned about possibly having to use venom on NightWings

Trivia

• Prior to The Hidden Kingdom, it was stated to have been a long time since Grandeur had dragonets, which may indicate that dragons can grow too old to have offspring.
• She is one of the oldest named dragons in the series.
• In the minigame Speed Wings on Scholastic's Home Base, Grandeur is a playable character.
• Although RainWings are shown to have four segments along their ruffs, the graphic novels depict RainWings to have only three segments. Grandeur is shown to have four segments along her ruff, unlike the other RainWings in the graphic novels. This occurrence might be intentional, because of her age, or an accident.
• In the The Hidden Kingdom, during Glory's challenge to become queen of RainWings, it was mentioned that Grandeur used to be an excellent treetop racer, (Treetop racing is a RainWing sport) but that she was much too old for it now.

Gallery

• Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
  Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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  Grandeur's icon in Speed Wings, a game on Scholastic HomeBase